Motivational Interviewing in Nutrition and Fitness

This practical guide for using motivational interviewing (MI) to enhance conversations about nutrition and fitness now has 70% new material. MI offers simple yet powerful tools for helping clients work through ambivalence, break free of diets and quick-fix solutions, and overcome barriers to change. Extensive sample dialogues illustrate the dos and don'ts of counseling clients about meal planning and preparation, exercise, body image, disordered eating, and more. Supplemental reproducible handouts can be downloaded and printed from the companion website.

2^nd edition new features:

• Chapters on medical nutrition therapy, health coaching, follow-up sessions, and counselor health and boundaries. 
• Restructured to reflect developments in MI and the authors' training approach; includes new and revised sample dialogues. 
• Increased attention to weight stigma and social determinants of health, such as unequal access to health care. 
• Expanded companion website with resource links and an online-only chapter, "What to Do When There's Little Time," in addition to 17 handouts. 

This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series, edited by Stephen Rollnick, William R. Miller, and Theresa B. Moyers.

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The second edition of this excellent, compelling book provides needed tools for students, interns, and professionals in fields that provide nutrition and fitness counseling. What makes this book special is its focus on weight inclusivity and a non-diet approach to nutrition and fitness, so often left out of other guidebooks. And what makes it extraordinary is the compassion, respect, and kindness presented throughout. - Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDS-S, FAND, nutrition therapist; co-creator of Intuitive Eating

Behavior change is complex, and the authors brilliantly unpack this complexity. This book provides tangible, ready-to-use language, making it easier to translate MI principles into practice. Practitioners can use the real-life examples to critically analyze and break down the differences between an MI and a non-MI communication approach and relate these dialogues and scenarios to their practice. - Joyce Faraj-Ardura PhD, MS, RDN, LDN, private practice, The Nutrition Counseling Academy

If I had only one book to recommend to health and fitness professionals on how to approach nutrition and fitness counseling, this would be it. The authors have blended the sciences of health and psychology with the art of using MI skills proficiently and compassionately. A brilliant resource! - Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, founder, EDRD Pro (Eating Disorder Registered Dietitians and Professionals)