Depression, anxiety and bipolar, along with attention, are affected by food and dietary intake. Discover the secrets behind the food-mind-body connection and how to help your clients improve their well-being through food, simple nutrients and behavioral strategies. Clients can experience an improvement in mood and attention when they make simple changes to their nutritional status. Join Dr. Leslie Korn, psychotherapist and expert in mental health nutrition, and explore the latest, most effective nutritional strategies to integrate into your client’s everyday life. The last part of the presentation includes a kitchen demonstration with Dr. Korn as she shares healthy food preparation strategies that are cost and time effective. You’ll learn how to: Incorporate a simple and effective diet and mind/body/food history into your assessment process to guide your interventions. Learn 10 easy dietary “fixes” and proactive strategies to improve mood and attention in children and adults. Live kitchen demonstration! Objectives: Utilize simple food/mood diary and analysis with clients. Identify how protein, fats and carbohydrates affect mood. Show how nutrition strategies can improve mood, mood lability and attention in children and adults. Outline: Food and Mood Mind / body / food connection Effects of food on mood and attention Link between inflammatory foods and mood Simple nutrition and behavior assessment and checklist 10 Nutrition Strategies Effective use of supplementation to improve and balance mood Protein Fats Carbohydrates Identify and treat sugar & carbohydrate addiction Simple food/nutrient recipes for children and adults to improve attention Alternatives to taking pharmaceuticals Use magnesium to reduce anxiety Fiber for mood stabilization Fermented foods to reduce anxiety Non-toxic methods to improve -bipolar disorder Now to the Kitchen: Preparing healthy food for a busy week High nutrient smoothies Crockpot cooking and salad prep About the Speaker: Leslie Korn, Ph.D., MPH, LMHC, has been in private practice for over 35 years specializing in complementary/alternative and integrative medicine for individuals with chronic mental and physical illness, specializing in trauma-related disorders. She integrates psychotherapy with somatic therapies, nutrition and herbal medicine, energy medicine, yoga and exercise, detoxification, and animal-assisted therapies. She was principal investigator in Mind/Body Medicine funded by the NIH and has worked extensively with indigenous and Hispanic populations integrating traditional (indigenous) medicine into public health settings. Dr. Korn has a Ph.D. in Behavioral Medicine, a Master of Arts in Cross Cultural Health Psychology and a MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. She was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School where she introduced somatic psychotherapy in the department of psychiatry. She was in private practice in Boston for over 15 years before returning to the jungle of Mexico where she has worked for over 40 years. Dr. Korn was a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School, clinical director of the New England School of Acupuncture, associate professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies and on the faculty of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine. She is a licensed mental health counselor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, and is national board certified in both Polarity therapy and Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. She is in private practice specializing in Integrative mental health and consults to clinicians who are helping clients find alternatives to psychiatric drug use. She is core faculty in Mental Health Counseling at Capella University. She is the author of Rhythms of Recovery: Trauma, Nature and the Body, (Routledge, 2012), Preventing and Treating Diabetes Naturally, The Native Way, (Daykeeper Press, 2009) and the forthcoming, Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health: The Complete Guide to the Food-Mood Connection (Norton, 2015). Continuing Education Information: For U.S. and Canadian customers, CE is available for $9.99 USD per participant. International CE rates may vary; please contact PESI Customer Service at 1-800-844-8260 for more details. |