Dietitians of Canada's Counselling for Behaviour Change course is an evidence-based, self-paced learning program that provides insights on counselling strategies that support behaviour change. The program includes illustrative examples of effective counselling, worksheets and practical tools to use with clients, including access to the Instigating and Implementing Eating and Physical Activity Behaviour Change: A Lifestyle Intervention Manual and Toolkit. Fee to access the course.

  2018-11-26 – Course

A HEARTS technical package for cardiovascular disease management in primary health care from the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with others including the American Heart and Stroke Associations.

          2019-04-08 – Manual/Guide

An advocacy-related, bilingual fact sheet from Dietitians of Canada outlining where nutrition counselling by dietitians can reduce client’s risk of developing diabetes and improve eating behaviours.

  2018-10-25 – Handout

An advocacy-related, bilingual fact sheet from Dietitians of Canada outlining where dietitians can save health care costs and improve employee productivity.

  2018-10-25 – Handout

A bilingual Dietitians of Canada fact sheet for professionals promoting the effectiveness of telephone counselling by dietitians.

  2018-10-16 – Handout

Study regarding a multicultural nutrition counselling competencies model for dietitians from the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

Craving Change™ is a cognitive-behavioural program to help individuals with emotional eating. It is founded on evidence-based cognitive behaviourial therapy research. Fee required to access facilitator/clinic/organization packages and licenses.

  2022-01-04 – Professional Education Tools

An overview from the European Food Information Council (EUFIC) on several behaviour change theories, including theories that can be used within a socioecological framework, in which intervention is not designed to be at the individual level.

Information from the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a third-wave cognitive behavioural therapy.

  2022-02-24 – Topic Overview

A module providing an overview of behaviour change models from the Boston University, School of Public Health.

  2022-01-26 – Topic Overview