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This practical text presents a wealth of fresh ideas and techniques for strengthening counseling skills to face real-world issues in nutrition therapy. It offers students and practitioners advice on ways to increase referrals, decrease no-shows, and overcome common barriers to effective counseling. The Third Edition also explores strategies for counseling patients with AIDS, diabetes, and other chronic diseases, for group therapy, for teaching developmental skills, and for end-of-life counseling. This edition has a new reader-friendly design and layout. New learning activities—including case studies and critical thinking exercises—encourage students to apply what they have learned to common situations in clinical practice.
Abstract: Entrepreneurial ventures are becoming more and more lucrative to today's dietitians. Going into private businesses has provided versatility within the field and greater exposure for its professionals. This easy-to-read book outlines the procedures necessary for dietitians to develop a private business. The book is divided into four sections covering: Entrepreneurialism, starting a business, managing a business, and developing a professional practice. It is designed as a practical guide to help dietitians interested in becoming self-employed better understand the procedures involved as well as the benefits and possible drawbacks which can accompany such a venture.
The third edition of The Competitive Edge: Advanced Marketing for Dietetics Professionals, edited and co-written by noted marketer Kathy King, provides essential information to help dietitians prepare for the future. More than 45 noted practitioners have contributed their expertise, giving dietetics professionals information, strategies, and tools to achieve professional success. This new edition is totally updated with new trends chapters, plus new chapters on customer service, marketing food and food services, selling, marketing sports dietetics and entering the complementary nutrition market, marketing a Website, selling a newspaper column, and becoming a consultant.
Handbook of Pediatric Nutrition, Third Edition, provides cutting edge research and resources on the most important pediatric issues and therapies, such as prenatal nutrition, weight management, vegetarian diets, diabetes guidelines, and transplant nutrition concerns. Commonly used by dietetic practitioners studying for their Pediatric Specialty exams, registered dietitians, dietetic technicians, nutritionists, pediatricians, nurses, and dietetic students, this book is considered the last word in pediatric nutrition.
This anthology reflects the life and witness of the Iona Community and is intended to encourage creativity in worship. Liturgies include: pilgrimage and journeys, healing, acts of witness and dissent, a sanctuary and a light, resources: beginnings and endings of worship, short prayers, prayers for forgiveness, words of faith, thanksgiving, concern, litanies and responses, cursings and blessings, reflections, readings and meditations.
Boost your energy, manage stress, build muscle, lose fat, and improve your performance. The best-selling nutrition guide is now better than ever! Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook will help you make the right choices in cafes, convenience stores, drive-throughs, and your own kitchen. Whether you’re preparing for competition or simply eating for an active lifestyle, let this leading sports nutritionist show you how to get maximum benefit from the foods you choose and the meals you make. You’ll learn what to eat before and during exercise and events, how to refuel for optimal recovery, and how to put into use Clark’s family-friendly recipes and meal plans. You’ll find the latest research and recommendations on supplements, energy drinks, organic foods, fluid intake, popular diets, carbohydrate and protein intake, training, competition, fat reduction, and muscle gain. Whether you’re seeking advice on getting energized for exercise or improving your health and performance, Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook has the answers you can trust.
Essentials of Pediatric Nutrition relays the key information that is needed to work in pediatric nutrition and with various age groups and diseases/conditions. It is different from the very successful fourth edition of Pediatric Nutrition, which is a complete textbook that includes evidence-based research, discussion behind the clinical decisions and best-practice guidelines. This consolidated and modified version covers the core best-practice guidelines with limited discussion on the most needed information on the normal child from preconception through adolescence as well as infants and children with diseases/conditions affecting nutritional status. Essentials of Pediatric Nutrition provid...
The Entrepreneurial Nutritionist gives practical advice on how to start and grow a private practice or consulting business. Timely topics covered include service marketing, consulting on the Web, new ethical and legal problems, ownership issues, and how to create your retirement. The book presents strategies from top nutrition entrepreneurs. An additional feature: 44 pages of sample business forms and sample contracts, letters of agreement, promotion letters, and legal forms. This edition includes results of the first-ever worldwide survey of entrepreneurial dietitians, conducted by the author?approximately 1,335 dietetics professionals were surveyed on how much it cost to get started, what they charge for various services, and their most successful marketing ideas. New case studies by top practitioners are also included.
Sixteen-year-old Kathy is on the run from a convent orphanage. She must reach Dublin to find her best friend but she’s woken up in an Irish Traveller camp, miles from anywhere. Her only chance of getting to the city is with their help, but for that, she needs to become one of them. Kathy has until the next full moon to find a talent and prove herself worthy. She enlists the help of a gifted young fiddler named Heath. But the others have become suspicious of Kathy, made worse by the disaster that follows in her wake. Only the matriarch of the clan seems to believe in Kathy’s potential. Time is running out for Kathy as she races across Ireland, along the way encountering fairy forts, changelings and tinkers. And while she tries their gifts of fortune telling and palmistry, nothing seems to work for her – until she discovers the Book of Moons.
This book is meant to challenge readers to try new helping and counseling skills, as well as give role models for nutrition therapy. Discusses the nutrition therapist; counseling and learning as they relate to children, adolescents, adults, the elderly, and families; empathy and multicultural sensitivity in counseling; empowerment and weight issues; business skills that improve communication and success; assessment; counseling skills for behavior change; cognitive-behavioral and psychoeducational counseling and therapy; nutritional diagnostic codes and measurable outcomes; quality inpatient counseling; exercise resistance and obsession; the group process; counseling tactics that work and those that don't; seizing opportunities in future markets; etc. Includes many examples of counseling strategies, and contains input from 36 dietitians based on their practical skills and knowledge.