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Date course created: April 2025

We’ve all heard this on the news and morning talk shows: the body is a system – physical health status affects mental health status and vice versa, lifestyle and behavior impact physical health which also influences behavioral health, etc. But what does it all mean for overall wellness and how we help clients in the therapy room?

This workshop illustrates how the interface between the immune system, mind, and the brain affects mental health. For example, high levels of inflammation are strongly associated with a broad range of health and mental health problems, including devastating effects on mood, cognition, and the desire to engage other people. Inflammation can result from adversity and one of several dimensions of the interface between mind, brain, and body. In fact, long-term inflammation is strongly associated with anxiety, depression, and cognitive deficits, including dementia.

 

 

 

**This is a 3.5-CE noninteractive, self-paced online video course delivered in home study format via an industry-standard online learning platform**

 

 

 

 

 

Agenda:

00:00 – 00:30: Introduction, Roles of Mitochondria, The Impact of Diet on Mitochondrial Function
00:30 – 01:00: The Brain’s Immune System, Cognitive Function, The Impact of Attachment on Gene Expression
01:00 – 01:30: Debunking the Depression Gene Myth, Lifestyle Factors Affecting Health, Role of the Hippocampus
01:30 – 02:10: Diabetes, Chronic Inflammation, The Global Obesity Epidemic; Effects of Physical Health on Mental Health
02:10 – 02:45: Impact of Isolation During COVID-19, Healthy Gut for Brain Function, Perspectives on Brain Research
02:45 – 03:20: Neuroplasticity in Psychotherapy, Neurogenesis, Dysregulation, Dietary Influences on Cognitive Function
03:20 – 03:38: Understanding Sleep and Circadian Rhythms, Optimizing Sleep for Cognitive Health

 

Objectives:

This training will provide participants clinical knowledge and tools to:

a). After completing this training, participants will be able to discuss how social support is linked to wellbeing, and cognition and longevity, while loneliness and isolation is identified with immune system functioning.

b). After completing this training, participants will be able to learn how the increase of metabolic, immune system, and obesity trends are strongly associated with depression and dementia.

c). After completing this training, participants will be able to discuss how stress contributes to diminished immune system functions.

d). After completing this training, participants will be able to describe how chronic inflammation is associated with depression.

e). After completing this training, participants will be able to describe how sound sleep supports memory consolidation, brain glucose metabolic activity, mood, and immunity functions.

 

Target Audience:

The target audience for this event includes psychologists, social workers, counselors, MFT’s, psychiatrists, and other clinical mental health professionals.

 

Instructional Level: Intermediate

Instructor(s): John Arden, PhD, ABPP 

Material Author(s): John Arden, PhD, ABPP 

John Arden, PhD, ABPP, has spoken in over 30 countries and all US States. He was Director of Training in Mental Health for Kaiser Permanente in the Northern California region, one of the largest training programs in the US. These training programs included 24 medical centers where now over 220 postdoctoral residents and interns are trained each year. Dr. Arden is the author of 15 books (translated into over 20 languages) on the areas of brain-based psychological therapies, anxiety, PTSD, aging process, dementia, and pathways to enhancing brain health. His books, Mind-Brain-Gene: Toward the integration of psychotherapy encompasses the fields of psychoneuroimmunology, Epigenetics, Neuroscience, Nutritional Neuroscience, and psychotherapy research. And for the general public, Rewire Your Brain 2.0.

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Course Materials & Delivery Method:

 

  • Course Materials – The course is composed of a recorded presentation and written materials (e.g. a slide deck and/or other worksheets, manuals, or handouts as provided by the instructor). The slide deck and any additional worksheets or handouts (as provided by the instructor) are made available inside the Lesson module after a course is purchased.
  • Delivery Method – This course is a recorded asynchronous, self-paced webinar training, and there is no access time limit or due date to complete it once enrolled. The enrolled learner will stream the recorded presentation and view the materials from their internet connected device via an industry-standard online learning platform.

 

CE Approvals:

 

Online CE Credits has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6795. Programs that do not quality for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Online CE Credits is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

Mind Works Professional Education, Inc. DBA Online CE Credits, #1974, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: July 23, 2024 – July 23, 2025. Social workers completing this course receive 3.5 clinical continuing education credits.

 

 

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