10/09/2009

Food Education for People with Serious Psychiatric Disabilities, by Alison Books, MS, RD, LDN, Center for Fitness & Nutrition, in collaboration with staff and students of the Division of Recovery Services at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, is designed to guide rehabilitation practitioners in helping people with psychiatric disabilities to learn good nutrition and healthy eating practices and to empower people with serious psychiatric disabilities to achieve nutritional health as a resource for recovery. It is designed to provide practitioners with nutritional lesson plans that can be used in a single session or together as a cohesive skills group. We encourage practitioners to use the lesson plans as frameworks from which the topic can be personalized to meet individual, cultural, and environmental needs.  Handouts and recipes are included to prompt use of the skills, provide information, and support nutritional practices.

For more information, go to:
http://www.bu.edu/cpr/products/curricula/foodeducation.html
For any questions, contact Sue McNamara by e-mail suemac@bu.edu or by phone at
(617) 358-2574.