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Nutritional Counselling. How To Motivate People To Correct Their Eating Habits
Nutritional Counselling. How To Motivate People To Correct Their Eating Habits
Nutritional Counselling. How To Motivate People To Correct Their Eating Habits
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According to the World Health Organization "Counselling is a process which, through dialogue and interaction, helps people to solve their problems and make decisions".
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 12, 2017
ISBN9781507172735
Nutritional Counselling. How To Motivate People To Correct Their Eating Habits

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    Nutritional Counselling. How To Motivate People To Correct Their Eating Habits - Roberta Graziano

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    INDEX

    intRODUCTION................................................................................1

    reasons why diets fail...................................................................3

    nutritional counselling................................................................7

    motivational CONFRONTATION.............................................9

    the counsellor.....................................................................9

    motivation and stages of change......................................10

    the difficulties of change..................................................11

    motivate the change.........................................................12

    help to make decisions.....................................................14

    THE SESSION: FEATURES AND stages............................15

    empathy ..........................................................................15

    feedback...........................................................................15

    authenticity......................................................................16

    no judgement...................................................................16

    communication.................................................................16

    listening ability.................................................................20

    active listening.................................................................22

    open questions.................................................................24

    THE appointment.........................................................................28

    the first session................................................................29

    the topics of the meetings................................................30

    group counselling ............................................................31

    bibliography...................................................................................32

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    Introduction

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    In Italy, before the ‘80s, healthcare counselling was relatively unknown. The term counselling, in fact, was mostly used with reference to more extensive clinical counselling in specific areas.

    In other European countries (such as England), as well as in the United States and  Canada, the belief that in the healthcare field certain counselling skills were required was slowly spreading. Furthermore healthcare professionals were expected to have great communication and interpersonal skills.

    This new approach to healthcare was soon criticized (Is it really necessary for our doctors, nurses and biologists to adhere to these criteria?, Healthcare professionals have little time and what really matters is their efficiency on a clinical and technical level, it’s not like they’re psychologists, If a patient needs to be understood, listened to, or requires help to deal with certain situations they will go to a psychologist and so on). To be able to answering properly to these counterclaims one must explain what healthcare counselling stands for.

    According to the World Health Organization Counselling is a process which, through dialogue and interaction, helps people to solve their problems and make decisions; it involves a client and a counsellor. The first is a person who requires help, the second is an expert, impartial, with no association to the client, trained to listen and ready to provide support and guidance.

    Differently, the British Association for Counselling, describes counselling as: «the skilled and principled use of relationship to facilitate self-knowledge, emotional acceptance and growth and the optimal development of personal resources. The overall aim is to provide an opportunity to work towards living more satisfyingly and resourcefully. Counselling relationships will vary according to need but may be concerned with developmental issues, addressing and resolving specific problems, making decisions, coping with crisis, developing personal insights and knowledge, working through

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