title: Providing Nutritional Care in the Office Practice: Teams, Tools, and Techniques.
abstract: Provision of dietary counseling in the office setting is enhanced by using team-based care and electronic tools. Effective provider-patient communication is essential for fostering behavior change: the key component of lifestyle medicine. The principles of communication and behavior change are skill-based and grounded in scientific theories and models. Motivational interviewing and shared decision making, a collaboration process between patients and their providers to reach agreement about a health decision, is an important process in counseling. The stages of change, self-determination, health belief model, social cognitive model, theory of planned behavior, and cognitive behavioral therapy are used in the counseling process.
authors.affiliation: Northwestern Comprehensive Center on Obesity, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 750 North Lake Shore Drive, Rubloff 9-976, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: rkushner@northwestern.edu.
authors.forename: Robert F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Kushner
mesh_terms: D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003142:Communication; D003657:Decision Making; D004032:Diet; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D062405:Motivational Interviewing; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011582:Psychological Theory; D020377:Self Efficacy
keywords: Behavior change; Communication; Counseling; Motivational interviewing; Shared decision making