Helping Clients Maintain Mental Health During Catastrophic Crisis and Pandemics
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This upcoming training, offered by Heartland Alliance, is optional but available to Prime Agency staff.
Please register for ICOCE: Helping Clients Maintain Mental Health during Catastrophic Crisis and Pandemics on Tuesday, September 29, 2020 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT at:
https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/734007983764355841
OBJECTIVES: BY THE END OF THIS VIRTUAL PRESENTATION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO HELP CLIENTS:
• Create whole person wellness plans.
• Create Community during a pandemic.
• Utilize technology to help create community.
• Utilize the two things that are stronger than fear during a pandemic.
• Address grief and trauma during catastrophic crisis and pandemics.
• Understand how to maintain mental and emotional health during COVID 19.
Catastrophic crises such as September 11th, Natural Disasters like Hurricane Katrina, and Pandemics such as COVID-19 can traumatize, increase stress, and undermine clients’ sense of wellbeing and mental health. Topics covered in this virtual presentation by Mark Sanders include whole-person wellness during crisis and pandemics; helping clients create community in the midst of isolation due to COVID 19; strategies to help clients decrease depression and anxiety during COVID 19; the use of technology during the pandemic; emotions and activities during crisis and pandemics which negatively impact mental, physical, and immune health; emotions and activities which positively impact client mental, physical, and immune health; how to help clients deal with panic; helping clients dealing with grief; Helping clients go from surviving to thriving.