Integrative Mental Health Care for Mental Health Professionals

Description

Mental Health Professionals are likely to be in contact with clients who have a preference for complementary, lifestyle, and integrative mental health care approaches. However health professionals may not be familiar with Integrative Mental Health Care. Integrative mental health care approaches include nutrition, naturopathy, movement, cultural/spiritual/traditional healing, massage, and many other health care systems (e.g., traditional Chinese medicine). This workshop is designed to give health professionals the confidence to evaluate, discuss, recommend and refer to Integrative Mental Health Care products/practices/practitioners.

Engaging with client preferences is an important element of mental health professional’s work. It is also important to be responsive to the cultural/social/spiritual relevance of some complementary, lifestyle, and integrative mental health care approaches for some clients.

Attendees will be provided with an overview of recent research and discuss how they can engage with their client’s preferences through discussing, recommending and/or referring their clients to complementary, lifestyle, and integrative mental health care approaches – products/practices/practitioners. This workshop provides important information to assist mental health professionals to navigate engagement with complementary, lifestyle, and integrative mental health care approaches in clinical practice.

Topics include:

• Consumer use and demand for complementary and integrative mental health care approaches
• Specific complementary, lifestyle, and integrative mental health care approaches and their evidence (including contraindications)
  • Nutrition
  • Herbal medicines
  • Nutraceuticals
  • Movement approaches
• Specific problems that may be encountered in clinical practice and the role of complementary, lifestyle, and integrative mental health care approaches
  • Improving sleep
  • Improving fatigue
  • Reducing anxiety
• Referring to complementary and integrative mental health care practitioners

Full day (6 hour workshop)