CPD VOD | Working with children: From pre-pregnancy to late adolescence - Day two

This course...

Is:
As an online, day one, on-demand-video from a live course

Is for:
Nutritional therapy practitioners, nutritionists, dieticians, naturopaths, other health care providers and final year nutrition students interested in applying functional medicine approaches to health and well-being (i.e. exploring how nutrients, other foods and lifestyle factors influence the function of the body and how to apply findings in a person–centred manner that recognises individuals’ unique differences)

Is led by: Dr Kirstie Lawton, PhD, PGCE HE, ANutr, mBANT, mCNHC, DipION

Spans: 5 hours recording time / 10 hours recording time in total

Provides:
BANT CPD 10 hours, NNA CPD 10 hours.

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By the end of the course, you will be able to:
• Understand the nutritional needs of children at all ages.
• Support children with a number of health conditions from birth until 19 years of age.
• Learn key skills required for working with children such as meal planning, understanding growth charts and engaging children and parents.
• Expand your knowledge of child friendly foods and safe and acceptable supplementation for this age group.
• Understand your scope of practice and the legal requirements of you as a paediatric practitioner

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About the presenter :
Dr Kirstie Lawton is an AfN registered Nutritionist and a BANT and CNHC registered Nutritional Therapist with a BSc Hons in Public Health Nutrition and a PhD in paediatric nutrition and dietary interventions from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. She also completed the 3 year ION diploma in Nutritional Therapy, and more recently, completed her PCGE in Higher Education through the University of London.

Kirstie has been a paediatric nutritionist for 22 years, and has worked both in the UK and internationally, as head of Childrens’ Health Initiatives for Edinburgh Community Food Initiative until 2007, as a researcher and advisor for various charities in Haiti, the Middle East and Africa, as Head of a nationwide Nutrition Department for adolescents and young adults in the United Arab Emirates from 2008-2017, and in her own clinic, You Nutrition, where she specialises in child, adolescent and young adult health in clinical areas such as gut, immune and brain health. In addition to clinical paediatric nutrition, Kirstie has a research interest in neurodegeneration.

Since its inception, she has been the module coordinator for 3 modules on the Graduate Diploma at ION (functional nutrition, gastrointestinal health and detoxification, and immune health), and teaches child health and clinical practice across all ION courses. She is on the Editorial Board for the Nutritional Medicine Institute and is also a health coach at Second Nature.

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This course originally took place on: 27th September 2023

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Upon purchasing a ticket you will be immediately granted access to the course materials and video.

To download the course materials, click the HANDOUTS button in the video player (situated between the VOLUME and QUESTIONS buttons).