Preventing Vulnerabilities: Pain, Sleep, Nutrition (6 Hours)
Objectives:
- Define vulnerabilities
- Identify some of the most common vulnerabilities: sleep disturbances, poor nutrition and pain and discuss how they can negatively impact mental health
- Explore their effects ways to prevent them
- Review the nutritional building blocks for health and wellness
- Examine how these nutrients (or lack thereof) contribute to neurotransmitter balance
- Identify several nutrient dense foods that you can include in your diet
- Explore the effects of pain
- Helping client's understand their pain and exacerbating and mitigating factors
- Medical Interventions for pain
- Nonmedical Interventions for pain