An Integrated Approach for Mental and Metabolic Health Recovery

Paper roadmap of health, exercise, healthy diet

Enhance Your Approach to Metabolic Health Recovery

This interactive, six-part course offers mental health providers the knowledge, tools and structure to help clients recover from psychological conditions that lead to emotional eating and weight gain.

Comprehensive and engaging, this course contains over 170 topics, and is supported by a detailed instructor guide, 250-page course text & workbook, videos and other proprietary tools that will give participants an understanding of the process and application of psychological inquiry and skills relevant to sustainable behavioral change.

Course Outline

Part 1

Divided into two sections, counselors will explore the clinical and social significance of integrated care for co-occurring disorders and develop their understanding of how the brain influences both mental and metabolic functioning.

Part 2

Broken into two sections, participants learn key concepts to help understand and explain underlying factors that contribute to the onset of mental and metabolic health disorders, emotional eating behaviors, and the development of addiction to unhealthy food substances.

Part 3

In this session, providers will explore facets of self-view and how a person’s early environment influences their identity and inner voice to help clients.

Part 4

This session presents counselors with concepts to help understand the underlying factors that contribute to the bidirectional nature of metabolic syndrome and anxiety disorders.

Part 5

In this session, learn the key concepts that help providers understand and explain some underlying factors that contribute to the bidirectional nature of metabolic syndrome and trauma disorders.

Part 6

Broken into three sections, participants will review the critical interplay between personality disorders, traits, and metabolic health, explore how the marital relationship quality, and behaviors affect mental health, metabolic health, and physical functioning, and learn the significance of external factors that influence how individuals, families, and communities interact with food availability in their environment.

Registration

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Nonmembers - $195

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Certificate and CEs

Participants can earn up to 6.5 CE credit hours upon completion of the course. 

Questions?

professionaleducation@counseling.org