Registered Dietitian Skills: Motivational Interviewing, Stages of Change, and Counseling Skills in Dietetic Practice

July 17, 2025

This activity will highlight the fundamentals of Motivational Interviewing, the Stages of Change (Transtheoretical Model) and other counseling skills, while providing practical tips for implementing these skills into practice.

Target Audience

This activity provides continuing education for registered dieticians and dietetic technicians. A certificate of attendance is available for other attendees.

Learning Objectives

  1. Define Motivational Interviewing (MI) and its core principles.
  2. Identify and practice key counseling skills used in MI.
  3. Describe the Stages of Change Model.
  4. Analyze how to apply skills in practice.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 Attendance
  • 1.00 CDR

    DHA, J-7, CEPO is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 1.00 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEUs) for completion of this activity/material.

Course opens: 
07/10/2025
Course expires: 
07/31/2025
Event starts: 
07/17/2025 - 4:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
07/17/2025 - 5:00pm EDT
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Houston, TX
United States

CPT Cristina Western, RDN, CSSD. Presenter has no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Stephanie R. De Leon Ansley, PhD, RD, LD, CDCES. Presenter has no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Disclosure: DHA J-7 staff, planners, authors, faculty, and content reviewers for this educational activity have no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 Attendance
  • 1.00 CDR

    DHA, J-7, CEPO is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 1.00 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEUs) for completion of this activity/material.

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Requirements: CE/CME certificates are awarded to participants who fully complete the activity, successfully submit the evaluation survey, and pass the posttest. The deadline to claim credit is Jul 31, 2025.

Access Code: Some activities require an access code to register or claim credit. Please contact the organization providing the activity for the access code. The Continuing Education Program Office (CEPO) does not provide access codes.

Accommodations: Please contact the course instructor to inquire about accommodations. For additional technical support, email [email protected].

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