NUTR-652: Practitioner Skills II

While continuing to cultivate their healing presence, students develop essential skills such as active listening and motivational interviewing in order to educate and empower clients toward health behavior changes. Clinical assessment techniques are explored within the framework of patient-centered health care, including interviewing skills, health questionnaires, anthropometrics and physical examination. Through practical application, the developing practitioner incorporates observational skills to assess nutritional health and constitution of a client. [2 credits]