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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