Mental Health/Brain

Next Step Clinical Course

Written for clinicians, this book helps you understand the endocannabinoid system in the body, plus efficacy, dosing, regulations. Includes use for neurological disorders, cancer, CV, liver function, mood disorders, and palliative care. Most recent research.

This course is only for CHES practitioners.

Written for clinicians, this book helps you understand the endocannabinoid system in the body, plus efficacy, dosing, regulations. Includes use for neurological disorders, cancer, CV, liver function, mood disorders, and palliative care. Most recent research.

Excellent resource! Leinow has three decades of experience growing and studying medical cannabis. Considering the growing interest in this plant and its medicinal properties, including as an alternative to opioids for pain, we need to educate ourselves.

Evidence-based book with integrative and nutritional treatments for people with depression, anxiety, bipolar, trauma, PTSD, and other disorders. For all practitioners, especially in the VA, group homes, and psychiatric settings with children, teens and adults.  

This course is only for CHES practitioners.

Evidence-based book with integrative and nutritional treatments for people with depression, anxiety, bipolar, trauma, PTSD, and other disorders. For all practitioners, especially in the VA, group homes, and psychiatric settings with children, teens and adults.  

This high-quality self-study course is a deep dive into gut health from popular author, educator, and speaker, Liz Lipski, PhD, CNS, FACN, IFCP and Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics member.  Her book and video self-study program cover the 5^th edition book content, plus 10 hours of video, 9 cooking demonstrations, and includes 48 handouts, assessment tools, recipes, and more. The book must be purchased separately. 

Pain often accompanies acute and chronic diseases; it can affect quality of life and ability to make good lifestyle and nutrition choices. Health professionals need to be familiar with pain physiology, treatments, motivational interviewing, and collaborative treatments. This is a book in the Dr. Andrew Weil Integrative Medicine Library.

New York Times Best Seller! This course is a comprehensive review of the evidence-based research regarding cognitive longevity. Sanjay Gupta, MD, CNN medical correspondent, discusses protecting the brain from decline and providing resiliency if it has begun. 

Intervention with patients who have had a traumatic experience in a health care setting is crucial in preventing psychological issues, as well as help reduce anxiety for future care. It offers in-depth strategies for supporting patients and their families.

This new edition provides vital tools for helping young people open up about their struggles, explore alternatives, and make healthier choices. The authors show how to have productive conversations about behavior change with adolescents and young adults in any clinical context.

Obesity and eating disorders often defy logic for health practitioners working with patients.  The authors are experts in addictions and specifically, processed food addiction. This book contains evidence-based research supporting the diagnosis of addiction and a deep-dive into how processed foods become addictive. They share strategies to overcome the cravings for processed foods. 

Written by a neuroscientist and director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab, the author, Matthew Walker, PhD explores the purpose of slumber and its little acknowledged or understood crucial functions as related to mood, chronic disease, obesity, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, etc. He explains how to harness the transformative power of adequate sleep and how to sleep better tonight.