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Presentation: Since mental health is a vastly underfunded and often unsupported field of medicine, it is important for practitioners to be creative and think “outside the box,” when addressing clients’ mental health needs. This presentation focuses on alternative and supplemental strategies for treatment that are supported by evidenced-based research. Nutrition, physical activity, and other homeopathic remedies can have a significant impact on an individual’s well-being and can often be implemented affordably. Holistic strategies will be identified, examined, and considerations of implementation will be addressed.
Objectives:
- Examine current challenges to the affordability of pharmacological interventions and briefly review some of the negative side effects
- Increase awareness of alternative and supplemental strategies available for use, with mental health clients
- Define strategies for implementing evidence-based holistic strategies into daily therapy sessions
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