Join Alice Benskin (Senior nutrition scientist and trainee psychologist specialising in mental health and complex trauma) as she talks about evidence regarding trauma, particularly in early life, and long-term health outcomes, Impact of chronic stress on eliciting structural brain changes, and impacting on key markers, Biological approaches to trauma ,Psychological approaches to trauma survivors and how this can impact on practitioner’s approach. She also have 3 case studies exploring working with trauma survivors living with chronic illnesses
Alice is a Senior Nutritionist and Nutrition Education Lead for Nutritank, and a member of the World Health Organisation’s “Fides” programme, representing as a nutrition scientist in the fight against nutrition and health misinformation online. Alice have a decade of experience working in nutrition research, education and the food industry, including at University of Oxford. I regularly teach doctors, nurses and other health professionals regarding the role of nutrition for supporting mental wellbeing, with a key focus on the impact of complex trauma on health.
The key learning outcomes from the course are
- To understand the biological mechanisms and psychological theory surrounding trauma
- To cultivate awareness of conscious and implicit biases towards trauma survivors and their health
- To understand how chronic stress depletes the body of key nutrients and increases risk of chronic disease, and how this creates health inequities for survivors.
- To explore through three cases studies compassionate approaches to working with individuals using evidence based personalised nutrition, psychology and lifestyle interventions
