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Digital Seminar

Nutrition and Trauma, Part 2: Protocols and Practices for PTSD, Complex Trauma, and TBI


Faculty:
Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, ACS, FNTP, BCTMB
Duration:
2 Hours 03 Minutes
Copyright:
Dec 16, 2022
Product Code:
POS065239
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

Food, dietary supplements, herbs, and spices can play an important role in healing for traumatized clients but are often left out of treatment strategies. In this recorded session, you’ll learn specific protocols for addressing the most common symptoms of trauma and for the acute and chronic stages of TBI. Get tips for overcoming the core nutritional challenges of trauma survivors, techniques for facilitating mind-body nutrition groups for trauma recovery, and strategies to help your clients stick with changes long enough to benefit from them. Whether you deliver these interventions yourself or collaborate with someone who does, this is a can’t-miss session.

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 2.25 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, ACS, FNTP, BCTMB, is a renowned integrative medicine clinician and educator specializing in the use of nutritional, herbal and culinary medicine for the treatment of trauma and emotional and chronic physical illness. She is known for her dynamism and humor providing clients effective alternatives to psychotropics. She completed her graduate education in the department of psychiatry and public health at Harvard Medical School and her life training in the jungle of Mexico where she lived and worked alongside local healers for over 25 years. She directed a naturopathic medicine and training clinic facilitating health, culinary and fitness retreats. She is licensed and certified in nutritional therapy, mental health counseling, and bodywork (Polarity and Cranial Sacral and medical massage therapies) and is an approved clinical supervisor. She introduced somatic therapies for complex trauma patients in outpatient psychiatry at Harvard Medical school in 1985 and served Acupuncture and faculty at National College of Naturopathic Medicine.

She is the author of the seminal book on the body and complex trauma: Rhythms of Recovery: Integrative Medicine for PTSD and Complex Trauma, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2012, 2023); The Brainbow Blueprint: A Clinical Guide to Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for Mental Well Being (PESI, 2023), Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health (W.W. Norton, 2016), Eat Right Feel Right: Over 80 Recipes and Tips to Improve Mood, Sleep, Attention & Focus (PESI, 2017); Multicultural Counseling Workbook: Exercises, Worksheets & Games to Build Rapport with Diverse Clients (PESI, 2015); The Good Mood Kitchen (W.W. Norton, 2017); and Natural Woman: Herbal Remedies for Radiant Health at Every Age and Stage of Life (Shambhala, 2019). She was a founder of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, a Fullbright scholar in Herbal Medicine and an NIH-funded scientist, in mind/body medicine. She is an approved clinical supervisor and is the research director at the Center for World Indigenous Studies where she designs culinary and herbal medicine programs with tribal communities engaged in developing integrative medicine programs.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Leslie Korn maintains a private practice and is the Director of Research at the Center for World Indigenous Studies. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. and additionally receives publishing royalties from Norton, Shambhala, and Routledge. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Leslie Korn is a member of the Nutritional Therapy Association and Integrative Medicine for the Underserved.


Objectives

  1. Conduct a yoga exercise to reduce trauma-related disordered eating.
  2. Appraise Clark’s Rule for working with herbs and nutrients with children.
  3. Design three components for a mind body nutrition group.

Outline

  • Trauma Survivorship
  • Core nutritional challenges
  • The role of dietary supplements, herbs and spices in healing
  • Enhancing digestion through mindfulness and bodywork exercises
  • Targeting comorbid disorders using evidence based ACM interventions, like yoga
  • Specific protocols addressing the sequelae of trauma
  • Inflammation, pain, and fatigue
  • Depression and anxiety
  • Insomnia
  • Self-harm and purging
  • TBI: acute and chronic stages
  • Clinical Considerations
  • Motivational enhancement to improve clients’ health and well-being
  • How to help your traumatized clients adhere to the changes they wish to make
  • Targeting comorbid disorders using evidence based alternative and complementary medicine interventions like yoga
  • Facilitate mind-body nutrition groups for trauma recovery
  • Working with children and adolescents
  • Ethics and scope of practice issues: autonomous practice and collaboration with nutrition professionals
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Physician Assistants
  • Other Professions

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