Price: $29.95

Course Overview

Nutrition and Mental Health: Essentials for Professionals

An online Continuing Education Course for Mental Health Professionals by Thomas Whitehead MA, LPC and Glenda Hall Speegle LCSW, LPC

Nutrition and Mental Health: Essentials for Professionals  is a course designed to introduce mental health professionals to the profound influence that nutrition exerts upon the mental and emotional functioning of clients. Utilizing a wealth of recent research findings, the course details the precise nutritional causes of depression and anxiety, and provides specific dietary and nutritional strategies for addressing these problems. It also offers concrete suggestions for incorporation of nutritional information into professional practice.

Continuing Education Credit. Provides 3 hours of continuing education credits. CEU-USA.com is an NBCC-approved Continuing Education Provider (Provider No. 6262).

Who would benefit from this course? Any mental health professional who wants to better understand the nutrition/MH connection, and use the information ethically in clinical practice. It is appropriate for LPC, MSW, LCSW, and drug/alcohol counselors.

The course is divided into three sections:

Section 1 - Nutrition and supplementation basics. Learn essential information about nutrition and dietary supplementation. Understand nutritional deficiency and nutritional supplements. Understand how nutrition can influence mental health.

Section 2 - Nutrition and mental health. Understand the impact of nutrient deficiency on depression and anxiety. Explore strategies for improving mental status through nutrition.

Section 3 - Suggestions for practice. Some considerations for ethical use of the crucial information in mental health practice.

References – A comprehensive list of references is included, with many web links.

Satisfaction Assured! If you aren't happy, we aren't happy. We believe you will enjoy "Nutrition and Mental Health: Essentials for Professionals." But if you are not satisfied, simply let us know at any point prior to printing your Certificate of Completion. We will refund your course fee in full.