Deakin University - Lifestyle Medicine for Mental Health Services: Life and Mind

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Lifestyle Medicine for Mental Health Services: Life and Mind
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Overview

Learn how to prevent and manage mental illness with practical frameworks to use in services that provide mental health care.

Duration	3 weeks
Total fee	₹27,104
Mode of learning	Online
Credential	Certificate

Lifestyle Medicine for Mental Health Services: Life and Mind
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FutureLearn
Highlights

Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate

Lifestyle Medicine for Mental Health Services: Life and Mind
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Course details

Skills you will learn

Coaching Communication skills

More about this course

There is now considerable evidence for using lifestyle interventions as a pivotal approach to prevent and treat common mental illness.
On this three-week course, you will discover the benefits of using lifestyle medicine in services that provide mental health care and gain practical skills to use in your context.
This course has been developed by mental health clinicians, academics, and those with lived experience. With their expertise, you will be supported in implementing lifestyle medicine to aid in the assessment and management of mental illness, recovery, and wellbeing.
Lifestyle medicine uses the evidence-based application of nutrition, movement, sleep, mind-body practices, reduced substance use, connection with the natural world and more. This is then combined with enhanced behaviour change and health coaching, new models of care, and digital health to prevent and treat disease and lead to whole-of-person wellbeing.
You will gain an understanding of lifestyle medicine from both a lived experience perspective and as a foundational part of care.
Next, you will uncover how behaviour change and health coaching is crucial in lifestyle medicine approaches. You will explore communications skills, behaviour change frameworks, coaching guides, digital tools, and built environment optimisation.
With this knowledge, you will have a better understanding of how to care for others and yourself.
Finally, you will gain the practical skills to successfully implement clinical lifestyle programmes.
Guided by the experts at Deakin University, you will finish the course with the knowledge and confidence to use lifestyle medicine in your mental health practice.