Rescuing the concept of counseling within the nutritional attendance context

• Autor(a) principal: Marafon RODRIGUES, Erika
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Pardo de Toledo Piza SOARES, Fernanda, Faber BOOG, Maria Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Nutrição
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/nutricao/article/view/9815
• topic: dietary counseling; health education; nutrition education; nutritionist; aconselhamento dietético; educação em saúde; educação nutricional; nutricionista

Counseling is a general process of help, whose basic structure is not dependent on the area of knowledge;when it supports the nutritional attendance to groups and/or individuals, it is named dietary counseling. Thegoal of this work is to rescue the concepts and fundamentals of counseling as a theoretical reference to theactivity of nutritional attendance, which involves education and nutritional orientation. The review of thetheoretical requirements, which have allowed the design of the basic counseling model, reveals the influenceand the relative contribution of several lines of psychology. In addition, there is the possibility of incorporatingthe rationale of educators, related to the social and ethic education issues in health. The stages comprising thecounseling process include: initial disclosure, in-depth exploration and preparation for action. Along theyears, the focus of counseling work has shifted, from the specific technical contents to the interaction of help,.Such interaction has demanded the development of the counselor’s qualifications and ability, in order tounderstand people and to help them carry out those changes found ,necessary in the everyday life and peopleconstructs. Reviewing the theoretical scenario, one concludes that dietary counseling can supply nutritionistswith a theoretical tool to improve their skills and qualifications, in order to interfere with the client’s feedingbehavior, taking their autonomy into account and recognizing their potential as historic subjects.