Introduction to Nutritional Psychiatry - Full Day Workshop

Food and mood centre with culinary medicine UK

Understand more about the links between diet, gut, mental and brain health, with experts in Nutritional Psychiatry and Culinary Medicine

Centre for culinary medicine, Westminster Kingsway College - Victoria Centre

The Food &amp; Mood Centre team up with Culinary Medicine UK, to talk the latest evidence and practical skill-building in Nutritional Psychiatry. This workshop will provide an introductory knowledge of the nascent but transformative field of Nutritional Psychiatry. It will address what is known regarding the links between diet, gut health, and mental and brain health. A part of the workshop will be dedicated to practical skill-building activities including discussions, group work and case studies; this will support participants to confidently apply their newly acquired knowledge. It will also consider implementation issues and provide opportunities to reflect and discuss how clinicians might integrate dietary support into their current practice. This workshop will be delivered by Professor Jacka and her team. Professor Jacka is Director of the Food &amp; Mood Centre at Deakin University and founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (INSPR). She is internationally recognised as a global leader in the field of Nutritional Psychiatry. Dr Tetyana Rocks is a research fellow who leads the translational activities within the Food &amp; Mood Centre, through the newly established Food &amp; Mood Academy. Dr Rocks is an accredited dietitian with extensive experience in professional education. Megan Pilon is an associate research fellow and provisional psychologist who works in behaviour change.Culinary medicine team will provide demonstrations and an opportunity to get into the world renowned kitchens at Westminster Kingsway college, were 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!Preliminary Timetable

<ul><li>Dr Rocks: Welcome, workshop outline, objectives, and expectations
</li><li>Prof Jacka: Nutritional Psychiatry: Opportunities for prevention and treatment across the life course
</li><li>Dr Rocks, Megan Pilon: Current practice and case-based group discussion
</li><li>Prof Jacka: Nutritional Psychiatry: Mechanisms
</li><li>Break
</li><li>Cooking demonstration – e.g. anti-inflammatory, gut nourishing foods (to tie into mechanisms)
</li><li>Open discussion/ Q&amp;A
</li><li>Lunch
</li><li>Dr Rocks: Current practice: Individual/group treatment and integrated models of care
</li><li>Dr Rocks, Megan Pilon: Case studies and group discussion
</li><li>Prof Jacka: Nutritional Psychiatry: What’s new in the field?
</li><li>Cooking demonstration – e.g. fermented foods (to tie into new research) </li><li>Break
</li><li>Dr Rocks: Practice issues in assessment and implementation
</li><li>Dr Rocks, Megan Pilon: Helping clients to change eating behaviours Group discussion and Q&amp;A</li><li>N﻿etwork
</li></ul>

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