Nutritional Psychology: Understanding the Relationship between Mental Health and Nutrition
Dr. Andrea Cook, PhD, and Dr. Jennifer Champion, DCN, are writing a textbook that will be available February 2025 through Taylor and Francis Group, CRC Press Division.
Overview
This textbook provides readers with an overview of the field of Nutritional Psychology, with explanatory examples of how science has come to the conclusion that food and nutritional status affect mental health. It teaches students how food affects us, the factors involved in how and why we eat, and the environmental influences that shape our eating behavior. Currently, mental health and medical practitioners get little to no training in nutrition, and clinical nutritionists get little to no training in psychology. This textbook can help fill this gap in training by creating an easily adoptable course that can be offered during the undergraduate and graduate college years.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Foundations of Psychology
Chapter 1: Psychology Basics
Chapter 2: Overview of Common Mental Health Disorders
Section 2: Foundations of Nutrition
Chapter 3: Nutrition Basics
Chapter 4: Microbiome and Mental Health
Chapter 5: The Impact of Hormones on Mental Health
Section 3: Eating Behaviors
Chapter 6: Psychosocial Eating
Chapter 7: Weight Loss
Chapter 8: Disordered Eating
Section 4: Treatment Strategies
Chapter 9: Mental Health Treatment as Usual
Chapter 10: Individual and Environmental Risk Factors that Impact Mental Health
Chapter 11: Evidence to Support Using Nutrition to Treat Mental Health
Chapter 12: How to Use A Nutritional Approach to Treat Disease
Section 5: Where Do We Go From Here
Chapter 13: The Politics of Food
Chapter 14: Making Food Decisions
Chapter 15: Self Care
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