Positive Food Parenting
for Healthcare Professionals
Fostering Positive Eating Habits & Feeding Practices
Helping You Support Parents Who Find Mealtimes With Their Children Stressful
Do you work with families who tell you that mealtimes are fraught with drama?
That they've resorted to bribes, distractions or rewards just to get their children to eat?
That they’ve restricted snacks or fun foods to try and build up an appetite?
That parental stress levels are sky high when it comes to feeding their children?
Do you ever feel that the advice you give to families to help with their children's ‘fussy eating’ doesn’t work?
The truth is, it's rarely about the food which is why our advice isn't always effective.
You may have heard about Satters Division Of Responsibility In Feeding where ‘parent provides, child decides’ but your families tell you they’ve tried that and it doesn't help either.
Maybe your gut feeling is that it’s down to their feeding style and how they parent around food that’s likely to be a barrier to change.
You're right.
We need to address the family’s ‘food parenting’, their feeding style, their practices at mealtimes, snack times and in fact any time food is requested or given, and we also need to address how they communicate and interact with food and eating around their children.
Positive Food Parenting For Healthcare Professionals is an evidence based, self-paced online course that focuses on teaching you the skills and strategies that you can use with parents to support them with stressful mealtimes, so that they know what to do and say in order for mealtimes to be more collaborative.
It's the basis of managing fussy eating, as well as preventing it from becoming a problem beyond the neophobic phase, and is also the skills parents need in order to raise children who have a positive relationship with food.
Based on the most up to date evidence based nutrition and psychology literature, this course is ideal for paediatric dietitians, nutrition professionals, GP’s, Health Visitors and family focused healthcare professionals.
You will learn:
- The negative food parenting styles, how they present and how to address them with families
- The gold standard in positive food parenting, to foster a positive relationship with food.
- Ways to implement positive food parenting practices so that children grow up to gain autonomy and independence when making appropriate food choices.
- The role of the parent in monitoring, offering reasonable choice, structure and boundaries.
- Communication and language at mealtimes so that children feel empowered to try new food.
Features
- 2 hours of teaching in video format.
- Audio files available
- Downloadable slides
- Lifetime access
- Competency assessment
- Reflective practice questionnaire
- Certificate of completion (when competency passed)
- 2 hours CPD
- Pending accreditation by the British Dietetic Association
Your Instructor
Hi, I'm Sarah Almond-Bushell, I'm an HCPC Registered Dietitian and have 24 years of expertise in paediatric dietetics.
In May 2021 I left the NHS after 22 years, where I worked as a Consultant Dietitian, to set up my own business The Children's Nutritionist. Now I support families with children who are 'fussy eaters'.
I am also an advanced level trained SOS feeding Therapist and I specialise in helping children with sensory processing differences which make fussy eating worse and mealtimes thoroughly unpleasant.
I also have two children of my own, one of which also has sensory processing differences so I bring first hand experience having successfully worked through her feeding aversions.
