Poverty, Homelessness, and Poor Health Outcomes
3 Hours | 3 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on Poverty, Homelessness, and Poor Health Outcomes is presented by Jerrod Brown, Ph.D.
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 program discusses how poverty and homelessness affect health and well-being and the negative impacts on mental health. This program 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 are highlighted throughout this program.
Relevant topics covered 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
Intended Audience
This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals
Experience Level
This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
Describe poverty and homelessness
Describe health disparities and other related constructs
Describe the causes and consequences associated with long-term poverty and homelessness
Describe screening and intervention techniques and approaches for clients impacted by long-term poverty and homelessness, and poor health
Describe relevant and up-to-date research findings
Presented By
Jerrod Brown, PhD
Jerrod Brown, Ph.D., M.A., M.S., M.S., M.S., is a professor, trainer, researcher, and consultant with multiple years of experience teaching collegiate courses. Jerrod is also the founder and CEO of the American Institute for the Advancement of Forensic Studies (AIAFS). Jerrod has also provided consu...
Curriculum
1. Introduction
2. Poverty and Homelessness - Part 1
3. Poverty and Homelessness - Part 2
4. Trauma and Other Adversities
5. Special Populations
6. Criminal Justice and FMH Considerations
7. Screening Considerations
8. Intervention Considerations
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CE Sponsorship Information
Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, 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. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.