Diabetes Counseling & Education Activities: Helping clients without harping on weight in Bloomington, MN

How can health professionals teach diabetes education without getting sucked into the restrictive-eating, appearance-based, weight-loss trap?Diabetes Counseling and Education Activities: Helping clients without harping on weight, is the culmination of 20 years of teaching experience by a Certified Diabetes Educator, Registered Dietitian, and Mindful Eating pioneer. Motivational Interviewing is the counseling method used throughout this manual to demonstrate how to teach diabetes care by presenting 14 different activities. To make this manual easy to use, each of activity is organized in a similar way, providing you with why, when, and how to introduce the activity in the counseling session. The learning objective and detailed counseling dialog help you shift to goal-planning and documenting the visit.