Theory
UNIT 1: Basics of Diet Counseling
- Concept and importance of counseling in the nutrition care process
- Traditional, Current and Emerging methods/tools of counseling
- Skills and attributes of a counselor
- Barriers to effective communication
- Understanding dietary patterns and food choices and their impact on counseling
- Behaviour Change Communication and Models for behaviour change
- Counseling strategies
UNIT 2: Processes Involved in Dietary Counseling
- Managing resources of the communicator/counselor
- Designing of counseling plans – goals & objectives, evaluation instruments.
- Implementation: facilitating self-management of disease condition
- Evaluation: evaluating adherence to dietary changes
- Counseling approaches after evaluation
UNIT 3: Dietary Counseling through the Life Span
- Considerations for counseling plans for:
- Prenatal, antenatal and postnatal women
- Childhood nutrition problems like:
- SAM, weight management, vitamin and mineral deficiencies
- School children, adolescents, young adults
- Fitness, weight management, eating disorders, nutritional anemia
- Managing diet related chronic diseases in adults:
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Dyslipidemia
- Hypertension
- Cancer risk prevention
- Renal disease
- Liver disorders
- Geriatric Counselling
UNIT 4: Nutritional/Medicinal Role of Traditional Foods, Traditional Food
Beliefs
- Role of Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Yoga and other traditional medicines in disease management