Description
Assisting children and adolescents with lifelong weight management strategies can be one of the most rewarding, yet challenging, aspects of a registered dietitian’s career. Family dynamics, social issues, and school pressure are all concerns when counseling young people and their families. This professional resource will help you get your clients on the road to a healthy weight.

Counseling Overweight and Obese Children and Teens provides essential tools to help you educate and motivate clients, including:

• Behavior change strategies
• Techniques for motivational interviewing goal setting, and relapse prevention
• Counseling plans
• Case studies
• A CD-ROM with print-on-demand educational handouts and worksheets

The CD-ROM includes 10 client education handouts and 25 interactive worksheets that can be used to counsel children, teens, and caregivers in many settings, such as outpatient clinics, private practice, and group weight-management programs. Topics include:

• All About Me (for teens)
• Being Active Is a Family Affair (for parents)
• How Much Should I Eat? (for teens)
• Life in the Fast-Food Lane
• Promoting a Positive Body Image (for parents)

Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 9780880913683
Format: Softcover w/ CD-ROM, 88 pp
Pub date: 2008

Contents
Acknowledgments
Reviewers
Introduction
Section 1: Prevalence and Treatment of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity
Section 2: Considerations in Counseling Overweight and Obese Children and Teens
Section 3: Counseling Approaches
Section 4: Behavior Change Strategies
Section 5: Monitoring Behavior Change
Section 6: Counseling for Dietary Behavior Change
Section 7: Counseling for Physical Activity Behavior Change
Section 8: Counseling for Family Behavior Change
Appendix A: Counseling Tools Available at the MyPyramid Web Site
Appendix B: Professional Resource

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
3020 Assessment of target groups, populations
4150 Infancy & Childhood
4160 Adolescence
5070 Pediatrics
5080 Adolescents
5370 Weight management, obesity
6000 Education, training and counseling

6010 Behavior change theories, techniques
6020 Counseling, therapy and facilitation skills
6040 Education theories and techniques for children and adolescents