The Complete Counseling Kit for Pediatric Weight Management

by Jodie Shield, Mary Catherine Mullen

With a focus on behavior-change counseling, this turn-key kit features strategies, counseling plans, and client educational materials specifically designed for registered dietitian nutritionists and other health care providers working with youths ages 2 to 18 classified as overweight or obese, and their parent and caregivers. The Counselors' Guide includes updated Pediatric Weight Management EAL Guidelines and addresses various behavior-change strategies, including goal setting, contracting, reinforcement, self-monitoring, stimulus control, cognitive restructuring, and relapse prevention. Two counseling approaches are the Transtheoretical Model (TTM), also known as Stages of Change (SOC), and Motivational Interviewing. The client education materials include 53 fact sheets and worksheets, and a tracking tool that can be printed on demand or downloaded to electronic devices and used when counseling overweight or obese youth and their families. These materials may be used in a variety of settings, such as outpatient clinics, private practice, and group weight-management programs.

330 pages, Ring-bound

Published January 15, 2019