Integrative Mental Health Strategies: The Next Generation of Wellness Interventions
Feb 17, 2023 Closed Mental Health
Description
Join us on Friday, February 17th for the groundbreaking inaugural conference, "Integrative Mental Health Strategies: The Next Generation of Wellness Interventions." While this event is designed for mental health practitioners of all types and specialties, offering a wide variety of mental health continuing education credits, it is open to anyone and everyone interested in enhancing mental health and cognition. All are welcome to join us for a day of innovative mental health modalities, designed to enhance the health and mental wellness of our communities!
This initial event will be held on a livestream platform, due to current construction of a large parking deck at MAHEC, and we are setting the stage to expand this conference, with on-site attendance beginning in 2024.
Group Registrations
Registering 5 or more participants with one payment? Please use the paper registration form. Send completed paper registrations for the full group to the Registration Team at MAHEC.Group Rate Available
$ 139.00 per personFive or more from same agency, registering & paying at same time
(add $15 to fee if registering after 2/3/23)
Target Audience
Target audience consists of mental health professionals including psychologists, substance use counselors, clinical social workers, licensed counselors, marriage and family therapists, school counselors and others in the general population who are interested in this topic.
Objectives
- Describe the impact of environmental toxins on mental health and identify signs that medical referral may be judicious, rather than simply treating psychological symptoms
- List at least three common causes and telltale signs of nutritional deficiency capable of producing psychiatric symptoms and explain when lifestyle changes and referral to appropriate healthcare providers are necessary to reverse vitamin and mineral deficiencies
- Describe instrumentation used to measure heart rate variability and explain patterns of HRV associated with normal healthy vs disease states, as well as ideal parameters for optimal performance
- Explain the impact that an unhealthy gut can have as a causative factor in mental health issues and articulate why many clients, in spite of taking medications and supplements are not showing improvement in their symptoms related to mental health issues
- Explain why TMS technology ranks at the frontier of interventional psychiatry and describe parameters for its use in the effective treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and potentially, in other common mental illnesses
Faculty
- Dara Fazelnia, DO
- Jack P. Ginsberg, PhD
- Jenny Goodman, MBChB
- Allan W. Redash, MD
- Tara Shields, BS
Brochure / Registration Form
