*Updated & Upgraded May 2023!

Looking for a take-home client resources that continues to push your client towards increasing their food variety and facing feared foods? This resource helps you and your client to plan out their food exposures and the prep sheet ensures that your client is supported during their independent food exposures. This resource also applies CBT to help your clients continue their food exposure work at home. It reviews how Food Exposure Therapy works, different strategies/tips to incorporate new foods, flavours & textures as well as a reflection activity and food exposure tracker. The food exposure log allows you to review your clients’ progress during nutrition sessions and also helps your clients see their progress over time.

Included in this non-branded, mini-bundle are the following handouts (organized in a zip file):

  • ARFID 101: a 1 page summary of the different types of ARFID
  • What to Expect: ARFID Nutrition Work: outlines what the steps to eating are and how ARFID work progresses.
  • Incorporating Feared & Novel Foods (ARFID): a step by step guide for preparing for and conducting a food exposure
  • Incorporating Feared Foods (better suited for clients with food fears that are not related to certain sensory characteristics): a step by step guide for preparing for and conducting a food exposure
  • Food Exposure Log: for your clients to record their progress with each food exposure
  • Food Exposure Prep Sheet (Categorization of foods for exposure plan)
  • Food Exposure Goal Map & Template (recommended for use with ARFID clients to break down a larger goal into smaller steps)
  • Feared and Novel Food Exposure Hierarchy Planner (a tool to help you and your client choose the most accessible food exposure to start, in order to build confidence and improve motivation)
  • Situational Exposure Hierarchy Planner (a tool to help you and your client choose the most accessible food exposure situations to start, in order to build confidence and improve motivation)
  • Window Of Tolerance: explains how too much distress shuts down the nervous system
  • Subjective Units of Distress Hierarchy: a resource that will help you and your client identify the physical symptoms that are associated with varying levels of distress

A must have resource for any RD working with ARFID, Eating Disorder or Picky Eating clients!

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This document is to be used as a tool in nutrition counselling or nutrition groups. The content is not intended to be a substitute for medical treatment. Users are encouraged to advise their clients to always seek the advice of a qualified healthcare practitioner for questions about their health or nutritional requirements. The author is not responsible for errors, omissions or individual usage. All materials are protected under copyright and are only intended for use by the sole individual or entity who purchased the resource.

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