Nutrition and Mental Health: Advanced Clinical Concepts
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Intermediate
Online
Course Abstract
Nutrition and Mental Health: Advanced Clinical Concepts is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that examines how what we eat influences how we feel, both physically and mentally. While the role of adequate nutrition in maintaining mental health has been established for some time, just how clinicians go about providing the right nutritional information to the patient at the right time – to not just ensure good mental health, but actually optimize mood – has not been so clear. With myriad diets, weight loss supplements and programs, clients often find themselves reaching for the next best nutritional solution, all the while, unsure how they will feel, or even what to eat to feel better. On the other side of the equation, clinicians so often face not just a client’s emotional, situational, and relational concerns, but concerns that are clearly mired in how the client feels physically, and what impact his/her nutritional health may have on these concerns. For example, research into the role of blood sugar levels has demonstrated a clear crossover with client impulse control. Additionally, the gut microbiome, and its role in serotonin production and regulation has consistently made clear that without good gut health, mitigating anxiety and depression becomes close to impossible.
So if good mental health begins with good nutritional health, where should clinicians start? What advice should they give to a depressed client? An anxious client? A client with impulse control problems? This course will answer these questions and more. Comprised of three sections, the course will begin with an overview of macronutrient intake and mental health, examining recent popular movements such as intermittent fasting, carb cycling and ketogenic diets, and their impact on mental health. In section two, we will look specifically at the role of blood sugar on mental health, and research that implicates blood sugar as both an emotional and behavioral regulator. Gut health, and specifically the gut microbiome, and its influence on mood and behavior will then be explored. Lastly, specific diagnoses and the way they are impacted by specific vitamins and minerals will be considered. Section three will deliver specific tools, you, the clinician, can use with your clients to assess, improve and maximize nutrition to optimize mental health.
Closeout Course #11-06 | 2017 | 21 pages | 10 posttest questions
Learning Objectives
- Describe the role of diet and nutrition in mental health
- Discuss intermittent fasting, carb cycling and ketogenic diets and the way they influence mental health
- Identify and describe the relationship between blood sugar, impulse control and behavior
- Define and discuss the gut microbiome and its role on mental health
Course Directions
This online course provides instant access to the course materials (PDF download) and CE test. The course is text-based (reading) and the CE test is open-book (you can print the test to mark your answers on it while reading the course document).
Successful completion of this course involves passing an online test (80% required, 3 chances to take) and we ask that you also complete a brief course evaluation.
About the Author(s)
CE Information
Counseling
Professional Development Resources (PDR) has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5590. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. PDR is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0135 - Note: New York counselors will receive 1 continuing education credits for completing this self-study course).
Marriage and Family Therapy
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Professional Development Resources is also approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC ACEP #5590); the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB #1046, ACE Program); the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists (#MFT-0100 - Note: New York MFTs will receive 1 continuing education credit(s) for completing this self-study course); the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (#114); and is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion).
Nutrition and Dietetics
Professional Development Resources is a CPE Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR #PR001). CPE accreditation does not constitute endorsement by CDR of provider programs or materials. Feedback for this activity can be sent directly to CDR. Professional Development Resources is also a provider with the Florida Council of Dietetics and Nutrition (#50-1635) and is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion).
Download CDR's Critical Thinking Tool - CDR credentialed practitioners must complete and save this form and the certificate of completion should they ever be audited. Failure to include both certificate and completed tool will result in a failed audit and loss of CPE credit. Feedback about the quality of the activity can be sent directly to CDR: QualityCPE@eatright.org
Occupational Therapy
Professional Development Resources is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course provider ID# 3159. This distance learning-independent course is offered at 0.1 CEUs, intermediate level, OT Service Delivery]. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion).
Psychology
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0145).
School Psychology
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0145).
Social Work
Professional Development Resources, #1046, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 6/12/2022 - 6/12/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 clinical continuing education credits.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (#SW-0664 - Note: New York social workers will receive 1 continuing education credit(s) for completing this self-study course). Professional Development Resources is also approved by the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners (#5678).
Customer Testimonials
Excellent course with a lot of good information.
I found that the exercises for clients included at the end of the course module would be interesting and useful.
Very informative course... we don't get nutrition courses in our fields of study so this is great. Also, great for parents.
I think this is always a fascinating topic. I learned a lot to use with patients and my own family.
Great course and we can apply it to everyday nutritional health issues.
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Very informative and concise -- seeing these findings in black and white has already motivated me to improve my diet, take the recommended supplements and try the fasting regime!
Great course. Very informative and will be useful.
Food & health is a very good topic. Ideas to encourage healthy eating, especially among kids, are welcome.
Love how relevant it is for all ages of clients. Interesting read and will recommend to families that they look further into diet as a means of optimizing their overall mental health.
Very interesting! We will also personally implement these ideas in my family
"An excellent course with much important information. I want more info, however, on the influence of fasting, ketogenic diets, and gut microflora on mental health. So I'm going to seek that out. The text needs minor copyediting. Overall, the most interesting course I've taken so far this year."
Excellent supplement for my practice.
Very interesting and well written, with relevant studies to illustrate points.
Great, succinct course. I will use it in my practice.
Loved this info and way it was presented.
A real revelation.
Effective way to get continuing education on a topic that interests me. Thank you.
Very well written and informative.
Excellent course! Great information for me professionally as well as personally.
The topics and sections of this course were interesting and it was straightforward in giving concrete connections between nutrition and various mental health struggles. I was hoping the course would go a bit more in depth about these connections. Several sections only cited one study supporting the findings so it makes me wonder how generalizable these connections are. I feel like I'll have to do quite a bit of follow-up research to see about age, sex, dosage, etc for these findings, but it was a good intro to make me interested in learning more. And the exercises to use with clients are really helpful!
Excellent course including current research on the role of diet and nutrition and it's impact on mental health.
Great overview of how nutrition affects mental health.
Good content. Helpful in offering information to patients who may be stuck with cetain symptoms.... A good reminder to discuss diet more completely.
I thought it was a good overview on nutrition and mental health-enjoyed the reading!
Loved this course. It will definitely be something I use in my private practice with most of my clients.
Loved this course; nice refresher to the Depression & Nutrition course - which was amazing! Thank you.
This content was presented concisely and in a useful way, and while some of the research was familiar to me from the popular press or from patients who are using nutritional approaches to mental health, other research/information was new to me and I appreciated learning it!
Excellent course! Enjoyable & educational, win win! Thank you!
Excellent summary of the course material.
Excellent, interesting and informative for both my patient engagement ideas and personally as well!
I loved this course! The section at the end for how to incorporate the information into client care was exceptional.
Thought provoking material.
This course provided a great deal of important material on an often-overlooked topic. It was clearly presented and informative.
Excellent. I wish I had taken this course years earlier.
The tie between mental health and nutrition is so much more important than I had originally thought. Great course!
This course was full of very helpful information, including invaluable research demonstrating the effects of nutrition on mental health. I also found the simple interventions very helpful and easy to use wth my life coaching and therapy clients.
I really enjoyed the up to date research integrated throughout this course. Loved the added benefit of the video which I can watch again and again to help remember the information taught. Overall loved it and it was a good value for the price.
Great information. I look forward to incorporating this into sessions with my patients!
Highly recommend this course to seasoned and new clinicians alike! Very useful and empowering information to help our patients.
I'm a Clinical Social Worker and a certified personal trainer. I love this. So relevant to my goals.
This course is very informative and Section 3 with the examples on how to help patients is very useful.
Practical examples at the end (Section 3) were very helpful.
Enjoyed the material and reinforced new learning with holistic nutrition course I am taking.
Excellent practical presentation of key issues and research related to nutrition and mental health.
Excellent course. As a personal trainer and counselor, the information presented in this course will help me educate my clients on the importance of nutrition in their journey towards holistic health.
I have three co-occurring anxiety disorders; I had the gastric sleeve surgery on June 10 and six weeks post op, I noticed a change in my anxiety, mood, and overall health. This article has given me great insight into healthy eating and I will forward this article to my bariatric program. I will also consider a client's diet when addressing various issues.
Great topic. I appreciate the up to date research and the practical exercises to use with clients. Thank you and great work!
This was fantastic! Informative with practical implementation.
Great overview of the relationship between nutrition and mental health.
I LOVED this course. It was incredibly helpful and well written. The summary of each section was a great way to reinforce the critical points.
This was one of the most relevant CEUs I've taken. Knowing the role of our diet on mental health is something we don't always focus on in treating our clients.
Very good course! I loved it!
Really a great course. This is also cutting edge information that is just emerging with yet mostly unacknowledged value and impact on mental and overall physical health. New information that will begin to prove almost immeasurable in its potential to improve the health of millions. Such a much more ethical and effective mode of tx. of many human health disorders.
Great topic, very relevant. Thank you!
Great course. Succinct and informative. I will use it for my patients.
I really benefited from this My daughter is nearing completion of requirements to become a RD so that an added benefit was the ability to discuss these issues together.
Excellent course as usual! Very relevant and informative!! Thank you!! I LOVE your courses!!!
Particularly appreciated section 3 suggestions on how to introduce concepts and behavior change with clients
Thank you for making things easy to understand and also printable for future reference.
Interesting material, current (2016) references, timely as the ketogenic and intermittent fasting are so prevalent in the news. As this was a basic course and only 1 hour I'm glad the authors stayed with a few keys items as this is a food and behavior are quite complex. I like section 3 with suggestions for application and the lists of key foods to help in selecting alternatives.
Excellent course. Will highly recommend to colleagues.
Fantastic course! I really needed an update on nutrition and mental health and this was spot on! Thank you for another great course!
The structure and information provided by the author made it easy to understand. I learned so much and I'm excited to implement and expand my knowledge of nutrition and mental health. The exercises and list provided at the end of the course material are very useful.
Thank you for this training! Very informative, well presented, and provided information I will use.
Thank you for providing a short and affordable course regarding nutrition and mental health. It is well written and formulated per section. This will help me enhance my knowledge of the Ketogenic diet and how it can correlate to mental health.
I thought the course was informative and relevant to the types of issues such as depression and anxiety that I deal with daily with my clients.
Extremely informative both personally & professionally -- great course PDR!
Thank you. I thought I already knew a lot about this but realized I had a lot to learn! Incidentally, your site is the most user-friendly of any I have ever visited. Many thanks.
Favorite course so far!
Course was an easy read and interesting.
Very important to my practice since the goal here is to provide clients with as much information/tools they can use going forward. Diet, sleep, exercise, socialization all matter.
I like the course topic very much. Each section presented recent popular movements with full of research findings. Section three - toolbox is very useful. I will definitely use them for my programs participants. Thank you.
Really good "food for thought" on the topic of nutrition and mental health and useful "bite-sized" information for making healthful choices.
I really enjoyed this course and the information that I have learned. I would recommend this course to colleagues and am looking forward to my next course!
Thank you! I love the resources at the end!
I really enjoyed this course. I would be interested in more! It saddens me to think so many people do not make the food-mood connection. I am eager to help my clients get on a path to healthy eating. Thank you!
I thoroughly enjoyed this course. I work with adolescents with mental disorders, as well as, eating disorders. This course was very relevant to my line of work. I felt the authors presented the information in an easily comprehensible manor.
Very interesting course. I learned a lot of new things that I can implement into my nutrition practice.
Good to see more trainings coming out on the mental health benefits of intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets.
I am plannning to implement the information learned from this course in the educational materials I use with my clients.
I enjoyed the ways to apply the knowledge to practice at the end. Thank you!
I really enjoyed the content of this course. Finding out how much OMEGA-3's play a role in so many aspects of one's health was very enlightening. It was also helpful to have research that compared the different types of diets & which one can have the most impact on overall health.
So relevant for me personally and professionally. I appreciate the research base follwed by practical food-focused counseling suggestions.
I really enjoyed this course. I would be interested in more! It saddens me to think so many people do not make the food-mood connection. I am eager to help my clients get on a path to healthy eating. Thank you!
Appraised the exercises at the end of the training ... great ideas to use with clients!
I thoroughly enjoyed this course. I work with adolescents with mental disorders, as well as, eating disorders. This course was very relevant to my line of work. I felt the authors presented the information in an easily comprehensible manor.
This brief course contained a very concise and precise body of helpful information.
This was the very best nutritioal paper I have seen. I am an RN in addition to being an LPC. I wish I had taken this course years ago.
I liked the breakdown of how to add the colors into a person's daily diet, as well as the lists provided for suggestions of how to increase intake in all areas.
As a current participant in cardiac rehab, I found this a fascinating and useful course. Thanks.
Excellent information provided on nutrition and its effects on mental health.
I really enjoyed the course material and love the topic of nutrition so relevant and valuable information for patients and therapist to maintain healthy eating habits to promote health and wellness.
Great course with updated research and compelling nuggets of information. Thank you!
This is an excellent course with pertinent information for practitioners in any health related field. I would love to see a “part two” or more in-depth course offered. The actionable suggestions for application with clients at the end was also valuable. The explanation surrounding “scope of practice” was also very clear.
I knew a lot of this already. I wish it went a bit more in depth, but it was a good introduction to the topic and it was explained well.
I enjoyed learning about the link between nutrition and good mental health. This is too often overlooked. The tips for working with a client were also helpful. Thank you!
Great Course. Organized and easy to follow. Thank you.
Thank you for making the research and resulting recommendations in this field available. The information will be helpful for me personally and professionally. I appreciated the time given to appropriate nutritional suggestions a clinician could share who is not medically or nutritionally trained.
Really interesting! I had always heard of the gut health/mental health argument, and it was helpful to get solid information even beyond gut health, but also vitamins and minerals our body and brain needs to function well.
