Nutrition Education & Counseling Skills

Nutrition Education & Counseling Skills—Training Module

The purpose of this module to strengthen communication skills that help dietitians and dietetic students become more effective educators and counselors. This module is meant to supplement existing resources in the dietetic curriculum and is not an all inclusive curriculum by itself.

Nutrition Education and Counseling Application Toolkit

Instructor Resources

Student Handouts

Student Assessment Tools

Online Post Test (multiple choice exam with personalized certification of completion for students with a passing score).
Short Answer Scenario Questions (10 short answer questions)

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Learning objectives

Convey the importance of embedding specific nutrition advice in a total diet context.
Demonstrate the usefulness of dietary patterns as nutrition education tools.
Increase awareness of the multiple factors by which clients and consumers assimilate nutrition information.
Enhance the nutrition counselor's ability to use client-centered counseling techniques to motivate clients' dietary changes.
Define and demonstrate a guided counseling approach when counseling.
Assess a counseling session using the Nutrition Care Process framework.

We would like to acknowledge the professional advisory group that helped us to develop this module:

A special recognition to Natalie Zima, Dietetic Intern UCSF (2009-10) for her help with the audio-taping and for the entire CSU Long Beach dietetic internship class of 2010-11 for their help in testing the module.