Book excerpt: Through appropriate counseling and intervention, nutritionists play an important role in encouraging clients to make and maintain healthy dietary changes. Nutrition Counseling Skills for the Nutrition Care Process, Fourth Edition, provides the latest counseling theory and communication techniques for clinical and community settings within the context of the American Dietetic Association Nutrition Care Process. The Fourth Edition focuses on tailoring intervention strategies to a client's dietary needs through effective interviewing, assessment, and counseling. This revision addresses the unique needs nutrition counselors face regarding obesity, heart disease, diabetes, renal disease, hypertension, cancer, eating disorders, and pregnancy.