Nutrition & Mental Health Certification Course
Working Group
Basic Nutrition & Mental HealthCertification Course
Syllabus Draft - 6/8/14
Weeks 1-2.Overview
How to Introduce Clients to the Food / Mood Connection
Watch: Davidescu Interview
Listen: Nutrition and Mental Illness - Watts audio
Historical Perspective
The Orthomolecular Community
Functional Medicine
Julia Ross's contribution
GAPS - healing the microbiome
Pfeiffer & Walsh
New Trends
Diet-based solutions
Basic Micronutrient supplementation
Introducing Clients to Nutrition
Cordain & Eaton 2005
Read: The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
Avoiding the Practice of Medicine - Intro
Watch & Listen: Duke interviews
Weeks 3-4Sourcing and Prepping the Brain-Healthy Diet
Assessment
Reading: Grain Brain - Perlmutter
Watch: Davidescu instructional video
Healthy Food Prep
Watch: Sara-Beth Lawrence instructional videos
Watch: Davidescu instructional video
Practice: Make three of these meals and post a picture of the finished meal. Eat the meal and report in on how it tasted; energy levels, spirit and mental clarity afterwards.
Weeks 5-6Macro and Micronutrients
The Trouble With Sugar
Sugar Shock - Bennett & Sinatra
ADHD and hyperactivity
Johnson RD 2011 and video commentary
Spotting Allergies
Selections from: Why Your Child Is Hyperactive - Feingold
Challenge Food Allergy testing
Have students check each other for allergic patterns
The Importance of Oils
Selections from:Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill - Erasmus
Week 7Talking about Sourcing and Prepping the Brain-Healthy Diet
Watch: Goodman interview
Watch: Other practicing food/mood therapist videos
Watch: Davidescu instructional videos
Watch: More Duke interviews
Practice: Students partner up and do telephone conference call mock consults with each other. Three students participate in each call: a coach, a client and a monitor whose purpose is to witness the interview and make notes about any legal lines that get crossed rhetorically. The participants rotate roles.
Sara-Beth Lawrence instructional videos
Watch: Jordan instructional videos
Practice: Make three of these meals and post a picture of the finished meal. Eat the meal and report in on how it tasted; energy levels, spirit and mental clarity afterwards.
Weeks 8-10.Advanced Issues
The Microbiome: Gastro Tract Balance
Thyroid and Adrenal balance
Watch: Mullan interview?
Sex hormone balance
Watch: Mullan interview?
Heavy Metal toxicity / Dental Issues
Watch: Mullan interview?
Amino Acids
Read: The Mood Cure, Ross, J.
Methylators vs. Niacin
Watch: Mullan interview?
Week 11.Finding and Vetting Referral Sources
Holistic mental health professionals
Orthomolecular medicine
Functional medicine
GAPS practitioners
Amen affiliates
Eclectic practitioners
Read: Nutrient Power, Walsh, W.
Week 12.Live Full Day
Review
Teambuilding
Group Exercises giving participants a chance to practice skillsets.
Example: A group of three therapists: one plays a therapist doing an assessment, one is the client, one is a monitor. The assignment is for the therapist to introduce the client to nutrition/mood concepts, the client to offer graduated amounts of resistance, and the monitor to evaluate the exchange, give feedback and watch for languaging that would cross scope of practice boundaries.
Final Exam
Weekly Student Time Budget:
1 one-hour webinar 1.0
Reading 5.0
Online course 2.0
Group Supervision 1.0
Assignments 1.0
Weekly 10.0
So to rough out somefinancials:
Let's say (10 hours/week x 12 weeks) = 120 hours
84 hours x $12/hour = $1,200 for the program.