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Live Webcast

The Food and Lifestyle Connection to Mental Illness: New Insights, New Interventions


Faculty:
Lynn Johnson, PhD,
Duration:
7 Hours 30 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
VLW020260
Brochure Code:
13616
Media Type:
Live Webcast
Access:
Access for 90 day(s) after program date.

Dates


Description

You may be missing something; and the research proves it!

A new way of looking at mental illness is emerging. Instead of thinking of emotional disorders as a brain disorder, we now know they are body-and-brain. The rising rates of mental illness may be partly explained by society’s shift to fast and convenience foods, and research is showing how much nutrition, and ultimately inflammation, affects our emotional health. The effect is so strong that many researchers now look at depression primarily as an inflammatory illness. Anxiety, ADHD, and autism all show clear evidence that food plays a key role.

 

This course explains the research behind nutrition and mental health and equips you with the practical tools and interventions to apply immediately to improve the overall health of your client.

 

What You Will Learn:

  • Explain how new research about nutrition is changing our ways of thinking about mental health and human services
  • Describe the role that inflammation plays in depression, anxiety, dementia, and other mental health disorders
  • Examine how childhood trauma can cause lifelong elevated inflammation
  • Identify eating patterns that promote emotional health and reduce inflammation
  • Discuss how the microbiome can hurt or help our emotional life
  • Conceptualize new interventions from environmental vulnerabilities
  • Compare several Therapeutic Lifestyle Interventions and how they can be used in the delivery of mental health services
  • Outline action-based interventions that reduce negative responses
  • Demonstrate meditation and mindfulness techniques that reduce negative client responses

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Faculty

Lynn Johnson, PhD, Related seminars and products


LYNN JOHNSON, PhD, has 30 years of experience as a psychologist and is currently licensed in the state of Utah. He is the director of the Brief Therapy Center of Utah and teaches graduate classes at the University of Utah. Dr. Johnson's graduate training was at the University of Utah where he received his MS and PhD. He studied with Milton H. Erickson, MD, and was supervised by John Weakland and Ernst Beier. His book on Positive Psychology, Enjoy Life! Healing Through Happiness, brings the latest information on Positive Psychology and has been praised by patients and therapists alike. He organized the Brief Therapy Center in Salt Lake City in the early 1980s and wrote about his work in his 1995 book, Psychotherapy in the Age of Accountability. He has written four additional books, including a book on transforming anger into respectful collaboration, Get on the Peace Train. He also has written 20 professional articles and has trained counselors and therapists in 49 states and five foreign countries.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access Period for Live Webcast For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.
Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion.


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Karen P - FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan

"Full of very useful information. Thanks!"

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