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Essentials of Nutritional Psychiatry – 1 Day: Food and Mood for Health Professionals
About this event
Click here to secure your early bird tickets.
Invitation to Health Professionals for a one of a kind CPD event on Saturday 5th October 2024:
Join us in the UK’s number 1 Hospitality School at Westminster Kingsway College (WKC), London.
Upskill in Nutritional Psychiatry in this 1-day intensive learning experience delivered by experts in the field.
• Explore the latest evidence for the use of diet and nutrition (including nutraceuticals) in the management of mental health conditions and their comorbidities.
• Learn practical skills for using dietary recommendations in treatment.
• Explore principles of motivational interviewing and behavioural change.
• Complete hands-on cooking activities with Professional Chefs in teaching kitchen
• Participate with live cookery demonstrations with Professional Chefs
• Build multi-disciplinary collaborations and networking
• Receive a Certificate of Completion
• Enjoy the best food you have ever had at a CPD event for health professionals
WHO YOU WILL LEARN WITH
This workshop will be led by the team from the Food & Mood Centre Deakin University Australia, led by Distinguished Professor Felice Jacka OAM, in collaboration with Culinary Medicine UK. The Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University is a world-leading, multi-disciplinary research centre that aims to understand the complex ways in which what we eat influences our brain, mood, and mental health.
• Distinguished Professor Felice Jacka OAM is Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University, founder of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR), and a highly cited researcher (2020 and 2021). She is internationally recognised as a global leader in the field of Nutritional Psychiatry.
• Dr Tetyana Rocks is a senior research fellow who leads the education and translation stream within the Food & Mood Centre through the newly established Food & Mood Academy. Dr Rocks is an accredited dietitian with extensive experience in professional education.
• The Culinary Medicine team will provide demonstrations and an opportunity to get into the world-renowned kitchens at Westminster Kingsway college, where you will be guided on knife skills and basic preparation of some gut-healthy themed snacks. With this you get a unique experience to tour the facilities and learn in the kitchens that trained famous alumni like Jamie Oliver and 2 Michelin stared Chef Andrew Wong!
• Chef Vince Kelly is a professional Chef of 30 years, culinary and sustainability lead at Culinary Medicine UK and Manager of the Hospitality Skills Academy at the UK’s number One Hospitality School, Westminster Kingsway College (WKC), he has pioneered several education initiatives at WKC including “Healthy plate, healthy planet”, and a bespoke degree in “Culinary health and nutrition. Vince is passionate about healthy plates and a healthy planet and a proud food waste ambassador.
• Dr Sumi Baruah is a practising GP, Educator and Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners with extensive experience of Primary Care in both the private and public sector. As a certified Health Coach with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, Dr Baruah is passionate about empowering patients to optimise lifestyle factors for better health outcomes, using various tools to help with goal setting and behaviour change.
WHO THIS PROGRAM IS FOR
This program is specifically for health professionals as part continuing professional development (CPD) and a unique learning event with networking and practical cookery elements:
• General Practitioners
• Psychiatrists
• Hospital doctors
• GP trainees and hospital training doctors
• Nurses
• Dietitians
• Physiotherapists
Please note case based discussions will be focused on typical patient scenarios such as major depression and general anxiety.
Post-School activities:
• Evaluation questionnaire
• Online live De-brief and Q&A
• Certificate of Completion
Take-home practice resources:
• Principles of Diet for Mental Health booklet
• Principles of Behaviour Change booklet
• Bonus: surprise Goody Bag to take home for all participants
WHAT WE WILL COVER
The role of diet in the management of mental health disorders:
• Evidence for the role of diet in treatment of mental health
• Nutritional Psychiatry as part of lilfestyle medicine approach
• Current recommendations by Professional Bodies
• Comorbidity and its implication
Diet and gut-related treatment options:
• Mechanisms
• Dietary recommendations for depression
• Dietary recommendations for severe mental health disorders
• Dietary treatment of disorders of gut-brain interaction
• Psycho-biotics (probiotics, prebiotics, fermented foods)
• Nutraceuticals, phytoceuticals and supplements
• FMT
• Restrictive diets (e.g. ketogenic diet, fasting)
Identifying and addressing individual needs:
• Dietary and needs assessment
• Adjusting dietary recommendations (youth, elderly, multi-morbidity)
• Communicating diet-related messages
• Barriers and facilitators
• Working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Evaluating progress
• Motivation and behaviour change
CULINARY MEDICINE HANDS ON COOKERY:
• Cook with Professional Chefs in our Culinary Medicine kitchen to translate nutrition science onto your plate and impact your clinical practice. You do not need expert cookery skills to participate and workshops are designed to be inclusive.
• Take home your Culinary Medicine ‘Food and Mood’ themed creation
LOGISTICS & CATERING
Please arrive for registration at 9am on both days and finish at 4pm
All participants will enjoy a Nutritious Culinary Medicine Lunch Buffet featuring unique Food and Mood inspired dishes, created by the professional Culinary team at Westminster.
There will be refreshments with hot and cold drinks throughout the day and break times.
Please add any allergies or dietary requirements which are requested at time of booking.
Sign up on Eventbrite today to secure your place on this one of a kind, interactive CPD event with early bird offer available until midnight on September 1st 2024.
Early Bird Sale Tickets are available until 1st September 2024 at £99 (full price £125 thereafter)
Special bookings: – please contact info@culinarymedicineuk.org with ‘Food and Mood Essentials 2024’ in subject if you fulfil the following criteria:
Group booking for 5 places or more
Previous Summer School 2023 or 2022 Event Participant
Exclusive Bundle Package
We have limited places to secure one year subscription to our Culinary Medicine UK online course PLUS ticket to the food and mood event on October 5th. Follow the link to take advantage of this offer.
Link: £249 – (Reduced From £374)
Thank you to our sponsor
This event is sponsored by Yakult Science for Health, who are committed to promoting HCP knowledge of the gut microbiota, probiotics and gut health. The Yakult Company supports and funds independent medical and scientific research worldwide.
Science has always been at the heart of the Yakult company, since the microbiologist Dr Shirota selected and cultivated Lacticaseibacillus paracasei Shirota, in Japan in 1935.
For more information about free access to expert resources visit www.yakult.co.uk/hcp or contact the Science Team at science@yakult.co.uk