GSN 513E - Shifting the Paradigm of Weight Centric Care

Credit(s): 2.00

This course is designed to address the beliefs and accompanying care that health professionals provide to their fat, high BMI, and obese patients. It will educate students on the complicated and compounding causes of fatness; challenge automatic beliefs that our culture has about fatness; review the implications of fatness and associated weight-centric care; explore evidence-based, patient-centered, and trauma-informed care approaches and language to use when working with these patients; identify ways to advocate for this population while engaging in coordinated care efforts; develop confidence in choosing the appropriate tools to use clinically; and learn how to stay informed about the latest research in providing care for those with fatness. This course will be targeting the provider’s approach with a lens of body acceptance combined with health psychology, behavioral change, and medical education. Prerequisite(s): GSN517/GSNO517