Amazon.com description: Product Description: "Having opened this book, you have taken the first step toward joining a new generation of health professionals __ LifeStyle Counselors. Regardless of your current specialty, as a LifeStyle Counselor you will be prepared from a cross-disciplinary perspective. LifeStyle Counselor training equips you with the tools that have traditionally been the exclusive domain of specialists. For example, dietitians who are trained as LifeStyle Counselors in weight control become adept at using state-of-the-art psychological principles to implement nutritional changes, psychologists learn to integrate relapse prevention strategies with nutritional balance. The LifeStyle Counselors are experts who have been cross-trained to make the best use of knowledge and skills from the areas that most directly affect their clients' ability to making lasting lifestyle changes". By Brenda L. Wolfe, Ph.D