This manual will teach you how to:

• Master the art of taking a thorough nutrition and health assessment.
• Learn components that go into follow up appointments and how to get your patient back in the door.
• Implement different approaches to counseling when dealing with different disease states.
• Overcome roadblocks when educating your patient.
• Recognize patients, as well as your own personality type in order to direct the consultation.
• Become skilled at creative educational strategies that you can implement with your patients.
• Take the validated personality test and evaluate your communication skills.

Resources for assessment and documentation are included as well as a hand-scored personality test that you can use to educate professionals or patients.

Special Feature--Standardized Personality Test, to evaluate your communication style is included in the price of this manual!

Reviews
"The business of counseling is just that-a business. In order to succeed in this work, counselors need to keep both counseling and business in mind when developing their service protocols. This book is unique in its approach, in that it includes discussions of both business and counseling principles and how to integrate them into a counseling practice with a healthy bottom line as well as a compassionate contribution to helping people in need of healing."

Monika Woolsey, MS, RD, A Better Way Health Consulting, Glendale, AZ

Companion electronic forms for -- that you can save, edit and personalize for use in your own practice setting! Combination of manual and forms is savings of $30!

Office Forms List

• Nutrition assessments
• Client education worksheet
• Nutrition Summary Report
• Outcome data
• What to expect at follow up sessions

Self-Study and Evaluation Assessments are found at the back of each manual.  They may be mailed, faxed or preferably e-mailed to Beverly@gettingthatjumpstart.com.

Barbara Beznos, RD, LD/N

Barbara Beznos is a registered dietitian and owner of Integrated Nutrition®, LLC. She received her Bachelor's Degree of Arts in Education from Michigan State University in East Lansing and completed additional coursework at Madonna University in Livonia. She completed her dietetic internship at Henry Ford Health Systems in Detroit. Barbara specializes in vegetarianism, oncology, diabetes, digestive disorders, cardiovascular disease, weight management and women's health issues. She is licensed in the State of Florida and is an active graduate of the Pritikin Longevity Center.

Gerald Lee, RN, MA, MBA

Gerry began his career with the US Army. As a registered nurse, Gerry utilized this skill both in the military but also at the Detroit Medical Center, completing 25 years of service in various management positions. Education has been an important part of Gerry's life, achieving a master's degree in counseling and guidance, as well as an MBA from Michigan State University. He has completed two years toward a Ph.D., investigating the affect of personality on teaching and learning.