Education: Educating Educators

The education component of Children's Health Education Foundation offers information seminars, graduate courses of study, and a core curriculum on childhood obesity and its impact on physical and mental health, learning, and social development of the child to teachers, administrators, school psychologists, and health professionals. The course of study will lead to a Master of Science degree in Bariatric Counseling, the first step in obtaining the projected new health-care state-certified credential—Certified Bariatric Counselor.

Courses of study under development include:

• Effects of Childhood Obesity on Learning and Behavior
• Hormones and Behavior: Early Pubescence
Education continued
• Identifying Eating Disorders: Anorexia, Bulimia, and Dangerous
Dieting Behaviors
• Physiological Impediments of Childhood Obesity
• Psychopathologies: Onset by Obesity
• Effects of Pharmaceuticals on Learning and Behavior
• Family Counseling