This is a basic introductory course in Nutritional counselling and dietary behavior change.

• The course aims to enable comprehension of basic concepts of Nutritional Counselling, as well as acquisition of skills related to efficient communication of the dietician with the patient, patient mobilization, and design of counselling sessions for dietary behavior modification and health improvement.

After completion of the course the student will:

• Have skills of efficient communication.
• Have knowledge of interview techniques and skills for efficient data collection from the patient.
• Have skills for assessing changes made by the patients and for enhancing their compliance.
• Be familiar with many case studies of patients from different age groups, with different individual characteristics and health related problems, as well as with problems that the student might face in every day practice related to difficulties in communication, low patient mobilization or low compliance to dietary behavior changes

The knowledge and skills acquired by the student in this course could be useful in his/her future courses, like Clinical Nutrition and clinical placement.