Licensed Mental health professionals can earn 1 hour CEU for this course. The Vine Wellness Group, along with their staff counselors, offer continuing education units to providers of Texas. If you are licensed outside the state of Texas, check with your state board on CEU provider requirements.

COURSE Objectives:
In this hour you will have introductions to the following:

• How nutrition elements affect the brain

• The science of how foods can impact your feelings/moods

• An understanding of nutritional psychiatry and what means 

• The mental health benefits of specific foods

• The 6 pillars of nutritional psychiatry

• Methods for making healthy changes to your diet and life

Increasingly, researchers are concluding that the diets of people with mental health disorders are lacking in key nutrients for brain health. And they’re finding that replenishing these nutrients can play an important role in treating those disorders. “Nutritional psychiatry” is a fast-growing approach that uses food and supplements in the treatment of mental health conditions.

Let's take a look at specific foods that can aid in different mental health and brain issues. 

Nutritional psychiatry follows six pillars of using food as medicine for mental health. Understanding these is your first step in enhancing your diet and your metabolic health and achieving optimal well being.

The "stages of change" model is the work of Prochaska and DiClemente. They initially developed this model while working with people who were trying to quit smoking. This model can be applied to any type of human change, quitting smoking, starting an exercise program, changing your diet, quitting drinking or using drugs, changing your study habits, parenting techniques, trying to stop using curse words, etc. This model can be related to virtually any type of change of behavior.