How can mental health clinicians better their client’s physical health?
In the last two decades Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) research has scientifically bridged the gap between brain and body. We now know that both animals and humans exposed to physical and/or psychological stress changes the mechanisms that regulate our body’s immunity to disease and therefore leads to an increase in susceptibility to a variety of illnesses; heart disease, cancer, auto-immune disorders, depression, and others (Kendall-Tackett, 2009; Kemeny, 2009). Read post
