Promoting Wellness (6 Hours)
Objectives
- Describe why should a counselor be concerned with promoting wellness
- Describe how good nutrition contributes to protecting against depression, anxiety
- Discuss how obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension can contribute to depression and anxiety
- Describe cholesterol
- List the issues that are related to obese people developing depression
- Explain how depression can lead people to eat more and be more sedentary leading to obesity which worsens the depression
- Explain why “comfort foods” high in sugar can cause a “crash” in blood sugar leading to a worsening of depression
- Identify the percentage of high school girls who have used vomiting or laxatives for weight control in the last three months
- Identify the percentage of high school girls reporting subclinical symptoms of eating disorders
- Describe ways obese patients are viewed
- Discuss the impact of obesity on patients receiving adequate medical treatment
- Identify how early the negative attitudes towards obese people emerge
- Explain why unhealthy people often are not motivated to make healthy changes
- Describe ways clinicians can help patients focus on environmental factors that influence eating and activity
$18.00 for 90 days