Instruction
1.What personal health-related questions do friends, family, and co-workers ask you? Describe how you could start using some of the techniques from this module to turn the question back to them and to find think of ways to address their real questions.
2.List the steps to handling personal questions.
3.Your client asks, “What do you do to stay so slim?” Based on the course materials, write a script outlining how you would handle the question.
4.Based on course materials, outline suggestions for continued professional development related to counseling.
5.You’ve recently been hired to work at a busy bariatric clinic. The clinicians you work with are using the old tell-ask-tell model of client care and have become frustrated about client adherence. How would you explain the overall philosophy of care and the clinician-client roles in the empowerment approach?
6.Based on the empowerment article, what are the benefits to clinicians of making a shift to empowerment approaches?
7.Based on the Academy article, what are the Academy’s public policy priority areas?
8.Warm Up Question - Module 15: Based on the health materials article:
a.Which instruction would be better: "Avoid eating meals and snacks two hours before going to bed." or "Finish all meals and snacks two hours before going to bed at night."
b.Which is better for conveying health information: videos or print materials?
c.What are the considerations for adding images to health materials?