Next Steps: A Practitoner's Guide of Themed Follow-up Visits to Help Patients Achieve a Healthy Weight

Next Steps is a handy guide for clinicians to help children and adolescents reduce and manage weight.

Behavioral changes with childhood obesity are much more likely to occur if other sectors of the environment are also making healthy changes with similar, consistent messaging. The guide helps the clinician by outlining a series of planned follow-up visits designed to teach evidence-based weight management strategies that can lead to success for the practitioner and patient. The detailed flip chart is to be reviewed by the practitioner and family.

Guide contents include

• Stages of Treatment
• Themed Visits
  
• Strategies for Teenagers
  
• Follow-up
  
• Signs of a Patient's Success

Themed visits in the flip chart include

• Understanding Health
• Portion Sizes
  
• Screen Time and Sleep
  
• Meal Patterns and Snacks
  
• Bullying and Teasing

Next Steps was created through a partnership among the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality, The Barbara Bush Children's Hospital at Maine Medical Center, and the Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.