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