Learn how hope, humor and harmony provide essential links for uniting the scientific data, and assisting recovery for patients with mental health challenges.



Overview

Hope is consistently identified as both a key component of—and even a prerequisite—for recovery across mental illnesses. The use of humor and laughter in psychotherapy has great potential in the treatment of psychological disorders by confronting life challenges, reducing stress and creating social bonds. Oxytocin alters neural pathways that exert prosocial effects that modulate trust, fear, depression, anxiety, trauma, and neuroplasticity. In this webinar, Dr. Ralph Carson will discuss how these three things provide an essential link for uniting the scientific data and assisting patients with overcoming emotional processing deficits – hence contributing to recovery from mental health challenges.

This webinar is a preview of the five online courses taught by Dr. Carson and available from Psychiatry Redefined.

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Ralph Carson, LD, RD, PhD

Dr. Carson has been involved in the clinical treatment of obesity, addictions, and eating disorders for over 40 years. His unique background in health science and medicine, coupled with nutrition and exercise has prepared him to integrate neuropsychobiological intervention and proven psychotherapeutic treatment. He is an active board member of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP). Dr. Carson has authored several popular books on nutrition, lifestyle practices, good health and the brain: Harnessing the Healing Power of Fruits, and the recently published The Brain Fix: What’s the Matter with Your Gray Matter? He is currently Vice President of Science and Innovation for the Eating Recovery Center’s CORE Program for weight management and binge-eating disorders in Denver, CO, and consultant for the Pinegrove Behavioral Health and Addiction Center in Hattiesburg, MS.

Course curriculum

    1. Employing Hope, Laughter, and Oxytocin to Improve Mental Health

About this course

  • $19.00
  • 1 lesson
  • 1 hour of video content