Main description:

Promote nutritional health and tackle childhood obesity with the latest practice tools and recommendations from the AAP. This popular manual will help guide pediatric health care professionals by providing information, strategies, and suggestions for approaches to prevention, intervention, and treatment for childhood obesity at the primary care level.

Starting with chapters on assessment and evaluation, each subsequent chapter focuses on a specific developmental stage with strategies for prevention of obesity in the normal weight population, intervention for children at risk for obesity, and treatment approaches for those children and adolescents whose BMIs are already greater than 95%.

Included in each chapter are questions for parents and self-assessment exercises to enhance parenting information and skill in making family-based change.

Obtain the latest point-of-care recommendations and ready-to-use tools including:

Step-by-step health supervision visit guidance spanning birth through young adulthood
Numerous real-life case studies illustrating family intervention strategies
New chapter titled, "Before Birth: Maternal Health"
Patient education handouts, self-assessment forms, and counseling for pediatric patients and families
Coding fact sheets for obesity-related health care services and template letter for handling carrier denials
Growth charts for boys and girls including the new WHO growth charts
And more!

Contents:

Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Childhood Obesity: An Overview
2. Assessment of Obesity
Health Supervision Visits: Prevention, Early Intervention, and Treatment for the At-Risk Child
3. Before Birth: Maternal Health
4. Before Birth: The Prenatal Visit
5. Newborn and Infant
6. Toddler
7. Preschool Age
8. School Age
9. Early Adolescent
10. Middle Adolescent
11. Late Adolescent and Young Adult
12. Obesity Strategies for Practices: Identification, Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment
13. School and Community Efforts
Appendices
Index