Holistic Dietician?
Oooooooooooooooooh!!!! I know I should rise above it, but every so often the nonsense put out by 'alternative' practitionners makes me grind my teeth.
Only the under-qualified and over-confident could set themselves up in business and claim to have solutions to all sorts of common ills that have perplexed the best minds of several generations. It takes a lot of training and professional experience to recognise the limitations of your expertise, but even the greenest new graduate in one of the therapy professions would have more sense than to advertise that they can provide a guaranteed solution to obesity.
I also take issue with how the terms 'holistic' and 'natural' have been co-opted by the largely unqualified practitioners as if the rest of us don't look after the whole person in a natural way....grrrrrrr.
There is currently no protection of title for the therapy professions Nutrition & Dietetics, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech & Language Therapy. Each of these professions has a recognised University level qualification (BA or BSc) and a recognised under and post-graduate training structure - and an established career path within the Health Services.
Though many suitably qualified individuals will choose to work outside of the hospital or community health care setting, either in private practice or consultancy roles, they are eligible to work in the public sector hospitals and health authorities.
People who have no qualification at all can call themselves a dietitian without even so much as the 6 week 'comprihensive'(!) diploma course offered by some well known home-grown snake-oil gurus, but they absolutely cannot work in health care. Nor can they be a member of the national professional organisations. All that takes is a 5 year degree with 6 months hospital and community based training and a research thesis.
Caveat emptor when seeking professional services- whether it's your doctor, solictitor, accountant, physiotherapist or dietitian, you should check that the person is suitably qualified before you pay good money for questionnable advice.
I should say that there are Nutritionists whose course of study and career path follows a different trajectory. They tend to have a BSc and to work more in an industrial or advisory capacity rather than as 'diet therapists' which is essentially what a dietitian does .....and since I'm all riled up- it's DIETITIAN anyway....2 't's not a 'c'.............hrrrrrrrrmph.
Only the under-qualified and over-confident could set themselves up in business and claim to have solutions to all sorts of common ills that have perplexed the best minds of several generations. It takes a lot of training and professional experience to recognise the limitations of your expertise, but even the greenest new graduate in one of the therapy professions would have more sense than to advertise that they can provide a guaranteed solution to obesity.
I also take issue with how the terms 'holistic' and 'natural' have been co-opted by the largely unqualified practitioners as if the rest of us don't look after the whole person in a natural way....grrrrrrr.
There is currently no protection of title for the therapy professions Nutrition & Dietetics, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech & Language Therapy. Each of these professions has a recognised University level qualification (BA or BSc) and a recognised under and post-graduate training structure - and an established career path within the Health Services.
Though many suitably qualified individuals will choose to work outside of the hospital or community health care setting, either in private practice or consultancy roles, they are eligible to work in the public sector hospitals and health authorities.
People who have no qualification at all can call themselves a dietitian without even so much as the 6 week 'comprihensive'(!) diploma course offered by some well known home-grown snake-oil gurus, but they absolutely cannot work in health care. Nor can they be a member of the national professional organisations. All that takes is a 5 year degree with 6 months hospital and community based training and a research thesis.
Caveat emptor when seeking professional services- whether it's your doctor, solictitor, accountant, physiotherapist or dietitian, you should check that the person is suitably qualified before you pay good money for questionnable advice.
I should say that there are Nutritionists whose course of study and career path follows a different trajectory. They tend to have a BSc and to work more in an industrial or advisory capacity rather than as 'diet therapists' which is essentially what a dietitian does .....and since I'm all riled up- it's DIETITIAN anyway....2 't's not a 'c'.............hrrrrrrrrmph.
posted by TheDietitian at 6:35 p.m.
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