Nutrition Counseling and Food Science

Counseling

• Counseling is giving professional advice to individual to help resolve personal, occupational, psychological or other problems.

Who is Counselor?

• Counselor: someone who is trained to listen to people and give them advice or solution to their problems.

Types of Counseling

• Marriage and family counseling.• Guidance and career counseling.• Rehabilitation counseling.• Mental health counseling.• Substance abuse counseling.• Educational Counseling.• Nutritional Counseling.

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.

Steps in Counseling

• Initial Phase

• Middle Phase

• Termination Phase

Initial Phase of Counseling

• Focus on Rapport building• Listen to the problem• Information orientation• Goal setting

Middle phase of Counseling

• Action phase• Assessment and diagnosis• Focused on available solutions• Selection of working solution• Multi-focused approach

Termination Phase

• Problem solving• Evaluation of process• Termination• Follow up

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.

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.

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.

How it works ?

• Nutritional counseling focused on:• What to eat ?• How much to eat ?• When to eat ?

Question Answer Session