Poverty, Homelessness, and Poor Health Outcomes
3 Hours
$200 Registration
Jerrod Brown, Ph.D., presenters a live professional training program on Poverty, Homelessness, and Poor Health Outcomes. This badge-earning program can be shared digitally on platforms like LinkedIn or your resume and counts towards a certificate. Enroll in this program to earn credit towards the Integrated Behavioral Health Certificate and share your new digital credentials with prospective employers and colleagues.
Persons who have experienced long-term poverty and homelessness commonly deal with increased cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and physical health problems. As such, these experiences can contribute to a host of adverse health and developmental outcomes for the impacted individual.
This training will discuss how poverty and homelessness affect health and well-being, along with the negative impacts on mental health. This training is designed to increase understanding of the causes, consequences, and interventions for persons experiencing poverty and homelessness who are impacted by poor health. Empirically based research findings will be highlighted throughout this training.
Relevant topics covered will include:
- Unhealthy lifestyle and risky health behaviors
- Psychological distress and toxic stress
- Hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction
- Food insecurities
- Health-promoting behaviors
- Problematic coping strategies
- Metabolic dysfunction
- Executive dysfunction
- Stigma
- Sleep disturbances
- Emotional dysregulation
- Loneliness and social isolation
- COVID-19
- Head injury