COUNSELING SUPPORT TOOL

Decorative Image: Image of the counseling support tool in the book

Speaker Notes:

The first section or column of the Tool shows the actual questions in the Getting Started section of the Guide. The questions provide an assessment of your patient's daily physical activity and eating behaviors and lend themselves to general recommendations based on the U.S. Dietary Guidelines. The highlighted answers are the ones that do not meet the guidelines, meaning behavior change is needed.

Please note that questions 3, 4, 10, and 11 ask about a patient's preferences and barriers to physical activity and healthy eating. Because these questions do not provide a direct assessment of current behaviors, they are not part of the Tool. (Questions 3, 11, 12 in the Guide for Young Women have been omitted from the corresponding Counseling Support Tool for the same reason.)

The second column of the Tool provides the relevant federal guideline for a specific question.