| The dietitian is known as the translator of scientific nutrition knowledgeinto practical application. As the field of dietetics grew, and the impact ofeating behaviors on nutritional status was recognized, dietitians becamethe health care professionals whose responsibility it was to deliver to thepatient information about diet. Dietetic education focused heavily, andstill does, on the sciences. Dietitians are well prepared for their task ofunderstanding the scientific aspects of the interrelatedness among the hu-man body, food, nutritional interactions, and medical requirements. Theyhave the knowledge to design eating patterns to meet almost any nutritionalrequirement. They are less prepared, however, in the process of "trans-lating the knowledge" to the patient to motivate eating behavior change. Theories presented in Effective Counseling Strategies for Dietary Manragement have been practiced in the counseling field for many years. Inaddition to behavioral counseling, the other approaches to be presentedare client-centered therapy, reality therapy, rational-emotive therapy, andtransactional analysis. Transactional analysis will be discussed from theperspective of interpreting and understanding interactions rather than fromthe perspective of practicing the theory. The book is organized in the following manner. Each theory is introducedwith a brief historical narrative. One factor shared by the theories is thateach was developed by a person trained initially in the psychoanalyticschool of personality originated by Sigmund Freud. Whether or not oneagrees with Freud s approach to understanding the personality, it is im-portant to note that hc was the initiator of the study of personality. Thetheorists presented in the book have another thing in common: they felta need to understand human behavior beyond the scope developed byFreud. They sought to explain human behavior from a more "normal"perspective. Freud developed his theory using a few mentally and emo-tionally_disturbed patients. In some aspects of the theories, the influenceof the psychoanalytic approach may be evident. |
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