Counseling Overweight Adults
Dr. Robert Kushner

Dr. Kushner is Clinical Director of the Northwestern Comprehensive Center on Obesity in Chicago, Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, President of The Obesity Society, author of over 140 scientific articles on obesity and nutrition, on the editorial board for Obesity, Obesity Management, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, and Today’s Diet & Nutrition, editor of the American Medical Association’s Obesity Primer for Physicians, author of Counseling Overweight Adults: The Lifestyle Patterns Approach and Toolkit, Dr. Kushner's Personality Type Diet and Fitness Unleashed: A Dog and Owner's Guide to Losing Weight and Gaining Health Together and medical director of the diet.com premium membership program.

Counseling Overweight Adults: The Lifestyle Patterns Approach and Toolkit


by Robert F. Kushner, MD,
Nancy Kushner, MSN, RN
and Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD

Publisher:
The American Dietetic Association, September, 2008

If it’s a struggle to motivate clients to change their behaviors in order to lose weight, this book is for you. Using Dr. Kushner’s innovative approach, clinicians learn how to uncover and overcome their patient’s unique challenges. Interactive Lifestyle Patterns Quiz, printable forms and pattern-specific educational handouts available on CD-ROM.

Selected Works

Nonfiction
Counseling Overweight Adults: The Lifestyle Patterns Approach and Toolkit
Innovative program designed to help you and your patient successfully overcome specific weight loss obstacles.
Dr. Kushner’s Personality Type Diet
A customized weight loss program based upon each person’s unique eating, exercise and coping habits.
Fitness Unleashed: A Dog and Owner’s Guide to Losing Weight and Gaining Health Together
In just a few weeks, man’s best friend can become man’s best exercise buddy.

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