Abstract
Integrating interpersonal, communication, and psychotherapeutic counseling skills to increase the efficacy of nutrition counseling, along with analysis of biomedical, psychological, social, and cultural factors affecting the client's condition, can help improve compliance, clinical outcomes, and the client's overall satisfaction with the nutrition counseling process. Key components of this approach include rapport, empathy, and active listening; countertransference and transference; maintaining appropriate boundaries; assessment of readiness for change; multicultural sensitivity; and supervision. Teaching methods include brief lectures, classroom discussion, role-play, educational video segments, written logs, process recordings, and case presentations using the format of group supervision.