Nutrition and food science counselling feb2017
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This document discusses nutrition counseling and its various aspects. It describes counseling as giving professional advice to help resolve personal problems. Nutrition counseling specifically focuses on assessing an individual's diet and identifying areas for change. The counseling process involves gathering information, setting goals, providing education, developing motivation, and identifying actions to facilitate dietary changes and positive behaviors. Nutrition counseling works to advise people on what to eat, how much, and when for a healthy diet.
Nutrition and food science counselling feb2017
- 1. Nutrition Counseling and Food Science
- 2. Counseling • Counseling is giving professional advice to individual to help resolve personal, occupational, psychological or other problems.
- 3. Who is Counselor? • Counselor: someone who is trained to listen to people and give them advice or solution to their problems.
- 4. Types of Counseling • Marriage and family counseling. • Guidance and career counseling. • Rehabilitation counseling. • Mental health counseling. • Substance abuse counseling. • Educational Counseling. • Nutritional Counseling.
- 5. Purpose of Counseling • Counseling is to help people use their existing problem-solving skills in meaningful way. • Counselor provides an opportunity and platform to the person to describe their feelings and problems for themselves to find solutions. • Counselors can’t ‘fix’ other people’s problems.
- 6. Steps in Counseling • Initial Phase • Middle Phase • Termination Phase
- 7. Initial Phase of Counseling • Focus on Rapport building • Listen to the problem • Information orientation • Goal setting
- 8. Middle phase of Counseling • Action phase • Assessment and diagnosis • Focused on available solutions • Selection of working solution • Multi-focused approach
- 9. Termination Phase • Problem solving • Evaluation of process • Termination • Follow up
- 10. Nutrition Counseling • Nutrition counseling is an ongoing process as require change in strategy in various circumstances. • Focus on an individual to assess his or her usual dietary intake and identify areas where change is needed.
- 11. Essentials of Nutritional Counseling • Information gathering during nutrition screening leads to setting goals for nutrition education and counseling sessions. • Providing evidence based information around nutrition and its effects on one’s different aspects of health- physical, emotional and cognitive • Providing educational materials that reinforce messages about healthy eating and dispel various myths.
- 12. Motivation is Important • No counseling is effective until the counselor works on Motivation • Assess motivation and develop strategy to keep that going • Identify the best course of action to facilitate dietary change. • Reinforce commitment and continue working on changes and new positive behaviors.
- 13. How it works ? • Nutritional counseling focused on: • What to eat ? • How much to eat ? • When to eat ?