“Nourishing Teen Emotions: Nutrition to Support Mental Health” goes beyond simple dietary advice. It reveals the hidden epidemic of nutritional deficiencies impacting our teenagers’ mental health and cognitive abilities. You’ll discover the specific blood tests that help to identify any deficiencies and learn effective ways to address them through targeted diet adjustments and evidence-based supplementation. This course provides practical strategies and recipes to support your nutritional counseling making it easier for your client to adopt.
Course Highlights:
- Examining the Current State: Explore the impact of the Standard American Diet (SAD) on teenage mental health, including the relationship between nutrition and depression, anxiety, and overall emotional well-being.
- Assessing Deficiencies: Understand the essential blood work and diagnostic tests necessary to identify nutrient deficiencies or potential links between nutritional imbalances and mental health conditions in teenagers.
- Key Nutrients for Mental Wellness: Gain in-depth knowledge about the critical nutrients that play a vital role in supporting teenagers’ mental health, including their sources and recommended dietary intake.
- Strategies for Teens and Caregivers: Learn effective strategies and practical recommendations to support teenagers and their caregivers in transitioning to a nutritionally balanced diet for improved mental wellness.
- Recipe Bank: Explore a wide range of delicious and nourishing recipes specifically curated to support teenagers’ transition to healthier eating habits, promoting their emotional well-being.
Self-Study ACTIVITIES: Activity Types – 700, 710, 720, 730, 740
Number of CEUs: 2.5
Learning Outcomes:
- Acquire a comprehensive understanding of the connection between nutrition and teenage mental health.
- Recognize the impact of the Standard American Diet (SAD) on teenage emotional well-being.
- Develop the skills to assess and identify potential nutrient deficiencies or imbalances through appropriate blood work and diagnostic tests.
- Apply evidence-based recommendations and strategies to support teenagers and their caregivers in adopting a nutritionally balanced diet for improved mental wellness.
- Access a diverse recipe bank to facilitate the transition to healthier eating habits.
Suggested Performance Indicator(s)
8.2.3 Analyzes new information and how it impacts medical nutrition therapy.
8.2.4 Integrates new knowledge of disease states and clinical conditions into practice.
8.4.1 Gains an understanding of integrative and functional medicine models and interventions and how these models and interventions are applied to nutrition and dietetics service
8.5.1 Plans and designs nutritionally sound meals, menus and meal plans that promote health and disease management, and meet client needs.
10.2.8 Recommends biochemical tests and reviews results to support diagnoses and plans of care.
10.2.9 Orders biochemical tests and reviews results to support diagnoses and plans of care.
10.3.3 Prioritizes specific nutrition problems to inform nutrition care plans and processes
10.3.8 Initiates or modifies orders for therapeutic diets and dietary and oral supplements based on PES statements.
10.4.1 Identifies classifications of nutraceutical pharmacological agents and the action on the body.
Empower yourself as a healthcare provider to make a positive difference in the lives of teenagers by leveraging the power of nutrition to enhance their emotional well-being.
