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Digital Seminar

Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health: Strategies to Enhance Mood and Well-Being


Faculty:
Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, ACS, FNTP, BCTMB
Duration:
1 Hour 56 Minutes
Copyright:
Jan 12, 2021
Product Code:
NOS096102
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

If we are what we eat, then beyond the mind-body connection there’s also a food-mind-body connection. This recording will explore the latest nutritional research to inform psychotherapeutic practice and how diet can affect mood, as well as the links between depression, inflammation, and cognitive function. Ethics and scope of practice, why there is no one right diet for everyone, the application of the food mood diary and analysis, engaging and motivating your client for change, specific dietary nutrient and herbal protocols for depression anxiety, insomnia, cognitive health and PTSD, and alternatives to psychotropics.

You’ll explore how to:

  • Provide your clients with a comprehensive overview of the basic principles of good nutrition, food preparation, and mindful eating
  • Assess the conflicting research and differing recommendations about nutritional practices and alternatives to medicines that foster mental health
  • Determine the benefits, risks, and deficits of a variety of popular diet types, from carnivore to vegan, depending on the needs of a given client
  • Foundational nutrients for mental health

CPD


CPD
- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 2 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.

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Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, ACS, FNTP, BCTMB, is a renowned integrative medicine clinician and educator specializing in the use of nutritional, herbal and culinary medicine for the treatment of trauma and emotional and chronic physical illness. She is known for her dynamism and humor providing clients effective alternatives to psychotropics. She completed her graduate education in the department of psychiatry and public health at Harvard Medical School and her life training in the jungle of Mexico where she lived and worked alongside local healers for over 25 years. She directed a naturopathic medicine and training clinic facilitating health, culinary and fitness retreats. She is licensed and certified in nutritional therapy, mental health counseling, and bodywork (Polarity and Cranial Sacral and medical massage therapies) and is an approved clinical supervisor. She introduced somatic therapies for complex trauma patients in outpatient psychiatry at Harvard Medical school in 1985 and served Acupuncture and faculty at National College of Naturopathic Medicine.

She is the author of the seminal book on the body and complex trauma: Rhythms of Recovery: Integrative Medicine for PTSD and Complex Trauma, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2012, 2023); The Brainbow Blueprint: A Clinical Guide to Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for Mental Well Being (PESI, 2023), Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health (W.W. Norton, 2016), Eat Right Feel Right: Over 80 Recipes and Tips to Improve Mood, Sleep, Attention & Focus (PESI, 2017); Multicultural Counseling Workbook: Exercises, Worksheets & Games to Build Rapport with Diverse Clients (PESI, 2015); The Good Mood Kitchen (W.W. Norton, 2017); and Natural Woman: Herbal Remedies for Radiant Health at Every Age and Stage of Life (Shambhala, 2019). She was a founder of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, a Fullbright scholar in Herbal Medicine and an NIH-funded scientist, in mind/body medicine. She is an approved clinical supervisor and is the research director at the Center for World Indigenous Studies where she designs culinary and herbal medicine programs with tribal communities engaged in developing integrative medicine programs.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Leslie Korn maintains a private practice and is the Director of Research at the Center for World Indigenous Studies. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. and additionally receives publishing royalties from Norton, Shambhala, and Routledge. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Leslie Korn is a member of the Nutritional Therapy Association and Integrative Medicine for the Underserved.


Objectives

  1. Prepare clients with a comprehensive overview of the basic principles of good nutrition, food preparation, and mindful eating to improve symptoms and well-being. 
  2. Assess the conflicting research and differing recommendations about nutritional practices and alternatives to medicines that foster mental health. 
  3. Determine the benefits, risks, and deficits of a variety of popular diet types, from carnivore to vegan, depending on the needs of a given client. 
  4. Demonstrate to clients the latest research on how diets can affect mood. 
  5. Analyze with clients the links between depression, inflammation, and cognitive function. 
  6. Evaluate foundation protocols for specific DSM categories of Mental Illness 

Outline

  • Provide clients with a comprehensive overview of the basic principles of good nutrition, food preparation, and mindful eating to improve symptoms and well-being. 
    • Discuss the role of proteins, carbohydrates and fats on brain mind function 
  • Assess the conflicting research and differing recommendations about nutritional practices and alternatives to medicines that foster mental health. 
    • Provide a range of research and explore its application and value to clinical practice 
  • Determine the benefits, risks, and deficits of a variety of popular diet types, from carnivore to vegan, depending on the needs of a given client. 
    • Identify bioindividuality concepts and the importance of non-ideological approaches 
  • Explain to clients the latest research on how diets can affect mood. 
  • Identify and how foods and herbs are precursors to amino acids and neurotransmitters  
  • Discuss with clients the links between depression, inflammation, and cognitive function. 
    • Explore the research on pro inflammatory foods and inflammatory and mitochondrial dysfunction in depression and memory. 
  • Provide foundation protocols for specific DSM categories of Mental Illness 
    • Identify specific nutrient  protocols that can be applied to depression, anxiety and sleep maintenance insomnia 

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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