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Nutrition Conversation Tips, Nutritional Assessment

Determining a Client’s Nutritional "Readiness to Change"

Understanding the stages of change can help with identifying the right interventions at the right times, resulting in greatly improved clinical outcomes. 

  • Stages of readiness to change
  • Understanding a client's mindset before addressing sensitive nutritional topics
  • What are a few key questions to determine a client’s "readiness to change"?

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