Mental Health: Principles and Practices of Emotional well-being

Catalog description

This course is designed to assist the mental health practitioners in caring for their own mental health and emotional well-being; preventing “caregiver burn-out”; assisting them in educating clients and/or personnel within various systems-in practices of good mental and emotional well-being. Topics relating to emotional health and well-being include: stress management/prevention of burn out; importance of life purpose and vision; the role of exercise, nutrition, and physical health, prioritizing and balancing one’s needs; transforming negative emotional states into positive ones; connecting with self and others, partnering for emotional and physical support. This class is experiential and cognitive, with assigned readings, classroom discussions, and the role play.