The Intuitive Eating Treatment Manual: An Essential Guide for Nutrition and Mental Health Professionals

A comprehensive manual for teaching intuitive eating to patients and clients--for psychotherapists, dieticians, and nutritionists.

Intuitive Eating is a groundbreaking approach to nutrition that recognizes the body’s natural hunger signals. There are numerous benefits associated with eating intuitively, including improved mental health, self-esteem, body image, weight stability, and dietary patterns. Structured around the 10 principles of intuitive eating, this comprehensive professional manual offers psychotherapists, dieticians, and nutritionists session-by-session techniques to effectively teach others how to implement the core tenets of intuitive eating, and promote a healthy and nourishing relationship to food.

The Intuitive Eating Treatment Manual begins with a complete overview of intuitive eating and its supporting evidence base. You’ll be presented with an intervention strategy that includes 10 sessions--each focusing on one of the ten core principles of intuitive eating. The format is flexible in the event that you need to expand or contract the number of sessions. You’ll also find important information on how to easily integrate the therapy when working with clients from diverse backgrounds--either in group or individual sessions.

If you’re interested in incorporating the principles of intuitive eating into your practice, this manual offers everything you need to get started.

Blair Burnette, PhD, is assistant professor in the psychology department at Michigan State University. She has published over thirty peer-reviewed articles on social and cultural factors that contribute to body image concerns, disordered eating, and eating disorders, with a particular focus on intuitive eating. Burnette serves on the editorial board of the journal, BodyImage, and is an active committee member of the Academy for Eating Disorders. She is from Nashville, TN.