This course explores our complex relationship with food: why we eat, what we eat, how we eat, and why we eat too much or too little. Information and intervention approaches draw from mind-body medicine, positive psychology, cognitive-behavior therapy, and functional medicine. Included in structuring paths to wellness, the course presents tools for working with patient expectations, beliefs, and resistance to change. Students will examine their own eating and wellness practices, as well as their readiness for counseling others. Therapeutic interventions for developing healthy behaviors and recognizing eating disorders will be discussed and the role of gender, race, family, peer, societal, corporate and government influences on personal choices will be examined.
- Instructor: Denise Gour
- Course Facilitator: Stephanie Hinton
- Course Facilitator: Peter Knight
- Course Facilitator: Helayne Waldman