Nutritional Psychology
Understanding the Relationship Between Food and Mental Health
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2025
282 pages
978-1-040-33861-2 (ISBN)
Description
Nutritional Psychology: Understanding the Relationship Between Food and Mental Health provides a broad look at the intersection between food and mental health and offers a comprehensive approach to effectively prioritize nutrition as a powerful component to maintaining overall wellbeing. Each of the 16 chapters deeply informs about a broad range of nutritional factors including those that promote stable blood sugar levels, optimize brain functioning, and contribute to the microbiome and hormone levels so important to the brain-gut connection. There are useful insights into the dynamics of food selection, eating disorders, obesity, body image, and nutrition quality that can stabilize or destabilize mental and emotional disorders. Additionally, environmental influences that shape eating behaviors are fully explored.
Nutritional Psychology: Understanding the Relationship Between Food and Mental Health combines psychology, nutrition, and medicine to form a framework for optimizing the relationship between diet and mental wellbeing. This textbook is designed for undergraduate and graduate psychology and nutrition college courses for students pursuing careers as psychologists, dietitians, nurses, social workers, and a variety of health professionals who want to incorporate nutrition and eating behavior into their discussions with patients.
Dr. Cook and Dr. Champion are both clinicians who work directly with clients with psychological and physical health issues and utilize a blend of nutritional and psychological interventions in their work, providing useful clinical applications for nutritional psychology.
Nutritional Psychology: Understanding the Relationship Between Food and Mental Health combines psychology, nutrition, and medicine to form a framework for optimizing the relationship between diet and mental wellbeing. This textbook is designed for undergraduate and graduate psychology and nutrition college courses for students pursuing careers as psychologists, dietitians, nurses, social workers, and a variety of health professionals who want to incorporate nutrition and eating behavior into their discussions with patients.
Dr. Cook and Dr. Champion are both clinicians who work directly with clients with psychological and physical health issues and utilize a blend of nutritional and psychological interventions in their work, providing useful clinical applications for nutritional psychology.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white; 29 Halftones, black and white; 39 Illustrations, black and white
File size
16,84 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-33861-2 (9781040338612)
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Understanding the Relationship Between Food and Mental Health
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Understanding the Relationship Between Food and Mental Health
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Persons
Andrea Cook, M.A., Ph.D., FMCHC
Andrea Cook, M.A., Ph.D., FMCHC, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with a telemental health private practice where she provides individual therapy to adult clients. She incorporates nutrition as an important part of all her therapy work and often recognizes clear improvements in clients when they include dietary changes as part of their treatment.
Dr. Cook has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and a master's degree in Counseling Psychology. She is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach (FMCHC), a Diabetes Educator, and has completed training in Advanced Nutritional and Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Professionals.
Dr. Cook is a faculty member at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) where she teaches Nutritional Psychology, Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychopathology undergraduate courses. The Nutritional Psychology course is taught as a large lecture class for 180 students, and is a course that she proposed, developed, and has taught both as a remote synchronous course using Zoom as well as a live in-person class. It was the development of this course that clarified the need for a textbook on this topic.
Jennifer Champion, DCN, CNS, CN, LDN
Dr. Jennifer Champion, DCN, CNS, CN, LDN, is a board-certified Nutritionist, Health Coach, Educator, Speaker and the Owner of NeoGenesis Nutrition, a Functional & Integrative Nutrition program that emphasizes individuality and whole-person health. The focus of her nutrition program is education on the connection between food choices and health status, and empowering individuals to make better choices and know that they are worthy of having the best life possible.
Dr. Champion's specialties include: digestive diseases and disorders, autism, autoimmune, inflammatory conditions, hormone balance, PCOS, adrenal health, thyroid health, diabetes, genetic testing and coaching, mitochondrial function, ADHD, anxiety, trauma work through HeartMath, and hypnotherapy
Andrea Cook, M.A., Ph.D., FMCHC, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with a telemental health private practice where she provides individual therapy to adult clients. She incorporates nutrition as an important part of all her therapy work and often recognizes clear improvements in clients when they include dietary changes as part of their treatment.
Dr. Cook has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and a master's degree in Counseling Psychology. She is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach (FMCHC), a Diabetes Educator, and has completed training in Advanced Nutritional and Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Professionals.
Dr. Cook is a faculty member at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) where she teaches Nutritional Psychology, Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychopathology undergraduate courses. The Nutritional Psychology course is taught as a large lecture class for 180 students, and is a course that she proposed, developed, and has taught both as a remote synchronous course using Zoom as well as a live in-person class. It was the development of this course that clarified the need for a textbook on this topic.
Jennifer Champion, DCN, CNS, CN, LDN
Dr. Jennifer Champion, DCN, CNS, CN, LDN, is a board-certified Nutritionist, Health Coach, Educator, Speaker and the Owner of NeoGenesis Nutrition, a Functional & Integrative Nutrition program that emphasizes individuality and whole-person health. The focus of her nutrition program is education on the connection between food choices and health status, and empowering individuals to make better choices and know that they are worthy of having the best life possible.
Dr. Champion's specialties include: digestive diseases and disorders, autism, autoimmune, inflammatory conditions, hormone balance, PCOS, adrenal health, thyroid health, diabetes, genetic testing and coaching, mitochondrial function, ADHD, anxiety, trauma work through HeartMath, and hypnotherapy
Content
Section 1: Foundations of Psychology
Chapter 1: Psychology Basics
Chapter 2: Overview of Common Mental Health Disorders
Chapter 3: Mental Health Treatment as Usual
Section 2: Foundations of Nutrition
Chapter 4: Nutrition Basics
Chapter 5: Microbiome and Mental Health
Chapter 6: The Impact of Hormones on Mental Health
Section 3: The Emergence of Nutritional Psychology
Chapter 7: Evidence for Integrating Nutrition to Treat Mental Illness
Chapter 8: Using a Nutritional Approach to Treat Disease
Section 4: Nutrition and Mental Health Challenges
Chapter 9: Risk Factors that Impact Mental Health
Chapter 10: Psychosocial Eating
Section 5: Eating Behaviors
Chapter 11: Weight Loss
Chapter 12: Eating Disorders
Chapter 13: Food Addiction
Section 6: Where Do We Go from Here
Chapter 14: The Politics of Food
Chapter 15: Making Food Decisions
Chapter 16: Self Care
Chapter 1: Psychology Basics
Chapter 2: Overview of Common Mental Health Disorders
Chapter 3: Mental Health Treatment as Usual
Section 2: Foundations of Nutrition
Chapter 4: Nutrition Basics
Chapter 5: Microbiome and Mental Health
Chapter 6: The Impact of Hormones on Mental Health
Section 3: The Emergence of Nutritional Psychology
Chapter 7: Evidence for Integrating Nutrition to Treat Mental Illness
Chapter 8: Using a Nutritional Approach to Treat Disease
Section 4: Nutrition and Mental Health Challenges
Chapter 9: Risk Factors that Impact Mental Health
Chapter 10: Psychosocial Eating
Section 5: Eating Behaviors
Chapter 11: Weight Loss
Chapter 12: Eating Disorders
Chapter 13: Food Addiction
Section 6: Where Do We Go from Here
Chapter 14: The Politics of Food
Chapter 15: Making Food Decisions
Chapter 16: Self Care
