Advances in the Brain and Behavioral Sciences

Advances in the Brain and Behavioral Sciences is organized by Institute for Brain Potential (IBP).

Initial Release Date: 11/03/2017 
Expiration Date: 11/03/2020 

Duration: A 6-Hour Home Study Program for Health Professionals

Accreditation:
Nurses: Institute for Brain Potential (IBP) is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. IBP is approved as a provider of continuing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP13896, and Florida Board of Nursing. This program provides 6 contact hours.

Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers & MFTs: Institute for Brain Potential has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6342. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Institute for Brain Potential is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This program provides 6 clock hours.

Institute for Brain Potential is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Institute for Brain Potential maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This program provides 6 CE credit.

Institute for Brain Potential, ACE Approval Number: 1160, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Institute for Brain Potential maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/11/17 – 11/ 11/20. Social workers completing this course receive 6 clinical continuing education clock hours. Social Work Practice Level: Intermediate.

Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0068. This program provides 6 contact hours.

Substance Abuse Professionals: This course has been approved by Institute for Brain Potential, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6 CEs. NAADAC Provider #102949, Institute for Brain Potential is responsible for all aspects of its programing.

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians: Institute for Brain Potential is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This knowledge-based activity is designated for 6 contact hours (0.6 CEUs). UANs: 0492-0000-19-064-H04-P and 0492-0000-19-064-H04-T. This program has been pre-approved by the Florida Board of Pharmacy for 6 hours of continuing education credit.

Dental Professionals: This program provides 6 CE hours. Institute for Brain Potential, provider RP-4261, is authorized to confer continuing dental education for Dentists, Dental Hygienists and Dental Assistants by the Dental Board of California. IBP is approved as a provider of CE by the Florida Board of Dentistry.

Occupational Therapists: Institute for Brain Potential is an American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Approved Provider, #6050. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA. This program provides 0.6 AOTA CEUs or 6 contact hours. Content Focus: Domain of OT (Client Factors) and Professional Issues (Supervision). This course is approved by the Florida Board of Occupational Therapy for 6 hours of credit.

Physical Therapists: Institute for Brain Potential is approved as a provider of the physical therapy continuing education by the Physical Therapy Board of California. Institute for Brain Potential is an Illinois
Department of Professional Regulation Approved CE Sponsor for PTs and PTAs, #216.000210. Institute for Brain Potential is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Physical Therapy as an approved provider of physical therapy continuing education. This program provides 6 contact hours.

Massage Therapists: Institute for Brain Potential is approved as provider of continuing education by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, #245.000045, and by the Florida Board of Massage Therapy. This program provides 6 CE hours. This program counts as ‘General’ hours in Florida.

Speech-language Pathologists: Institute for Brain Potential is an approved provider by the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board (SLPAB), # PPDP247. This program provides 6 CE hours.

Acupuncturists: This course is approved by the California Acupuncture Board, Provider Number 565, for 6 hours of Category 1 distance education (home study) credit.

Educators: Participants completing this program will receive 7.5 clock hours of professional development credit through a cosponsorship agreement between Alliant International University and IBP. Alliant International University’s graduate programs are accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Please contact your school district if you need prior approval for this program

Description:
This unique program describes the training programs that have been developed by the Institute for Brain Potential to help understand and prevent mental and physical conditions and to
improve health and wellbeing.

Participants completing the program should be able to identify evidence-based approaches to:
• Overcoming traumatic and posttraumatic stress-related disorders including adverse childhood and adult experiences.
• Understanding and managing generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and perfectionism.
• Enhancing emotional resilience
• Improving health-related habits
• Understanding and applying mind-body approaches to improve the mind-body connection as it affects the immune system and inflammation.
• Understanding and improving interpersonal relationships including reasoning with unreasonable people and high-conflict interactions.
• Describing how food affects mental health
• Understanding and improving memory and cognition and preventing dementia.
• Adopting lifestyle modifications for improving physical activity, diet, meditation and sleep.
• Applying positive psychology.

Understanding and Overcoming Trauma
• Adverse Childhood Experiences
• Understanding and Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Understanding and Managing Anxiety
• Why We Worry: Understanding and Treating Anxiety Disorders
• The Pathology of Perfectionism

Developing Emotional Resilience
• Developing Positive Emotional Habits
• Mastering Sixteen Key Habits of Emotionally Resilient People

Improving Health-Related Habits
• How the Brain Forms New Habits
• Calming an Overactive Brain
• Understanding Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
• How People Change Their Mind to Adopt Healthy Habits

The Immune system, Inflammation, and the Mind-Body Connection
• The Immune System: The Mind-Body Connection Who Gets Sick and Who Stays Well
• Mind-Body Interactions and the Stress-Inflammation Connection
• Understanding the Gut Brain

Managing Interpersonal Challenges
• Noxious People: Living and Working with High Conflict People
• Reasoning with Unreasonable People
• Passive Aggression, Sarcasm, Cold Anger, Hostility and Aggression
• How We Heal Ourselves and Others: Communicating in Ways That Create Meaningful Change

How Food Affects Mental Health
• Food for Thought: How Nutrients Affect Mental Health and the Brain
• Behavioral and Medicinal Effects of Selected Plant-Based Nutrients
• Overview of Medical and Medicinal Foods

Understanding Memory, Cognition, and Dementia
• Memory: How it Works, How It Breaks Down and How to Improve It
• Advances in Preventing Cognitive Decline
• The Habits of People Least Likely To Develop Alzheimer’s Disease

Lifestyle Modification to Create Meaningful Change
• Pumped: Building a Better Brain Through Exercise and Movement
• What Is In Our Food
• Meditation
• Sleep and the Brain

Applying Positive Psychology
• Understanding and Practicing Positive Psychology
• The Habits of Happy People
• Sleep and the Brain

Applying Positive Psychology
• Understanding and Practicing Positive Psychology
• The Habits of Happy People