Certificate of Training in Childhood and Adolescent Weight Management — Self-Study Learning Objectives

After completing the self-study module, participants will be able to:

• Describe nutrition guidelines for healthy eating for children and adolescents recommended by professional and government agencies.
  
  
• Identify the appropriate macro and micro nutrient requirements for healthy children and adolescents.
  
  
• Describe age and developmentally appropriate activity patterns, feeding practices, eating behaviors for children and adolescents.
  
  
• Describe the environmental, economic, psychosocial and cultural factors that affect child, adolescent and family food intake patterns.
  
  
• Define body mass index (BMI), height for age, weight for age, sexual maturity ratings and identify their indications for use in the anthropometric assessment of a child and adolescent.
  
  
• Assess and interpret a pediatric patient's anthropometrics and growth pattern using standardized sex and age appropriate growth and BMI charts.
  
  
• Describe the epidemiological data demonstrating the increasing prevalence of pediatric overweight.
  
  
• Identify comorbidities associated with overweight in childhood, their persistence into adulthood and their relationship to adult chronic disease.
  
  
• Understand the current recommendations on how to screen, identify and treat children and adolescents who are "at risk for overweight" and "overweight".
  
  
• Describe and contrast the techniques of motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy in health behavior change.
  

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