“Supporting the Spiritual Development of Youth with Mental Health Challenges”
Presented by: Michelle Solomon, RN, BSciN, MSciN, PhD
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025
Description: This session provides an overview of mental health and why it needs to be holistic. Michelle Solomon shares research findings on how youth diagnosed with bipolar disorder described their spirituality and how their experiences affected their spirituality. She covers the work behind promoting spiritual health, how health professionals can promote wellbeing through spirituality-integrated interventions, and how health professionals can promote their own spiritual wellbeing.
Bio: Dr. Michelle Solomon is a Registered Nurse and completed her BSciN, MSciN, and PhD at Western University in Canada. Over the past 15 years, she has practiced mental health care in both hospital and community settings, worked in mental health research, served as a nursing instructor, and provided leadership in peer support in the London Ontario community. Her dissertation explored how youth living with bipolar disorder describe their understanding of and experiences of spirituality. This research aims to provide an awareness of the spiritual dimension in youth mental health and the importance of its integration into well-being.
Learning outcomes:
1. Identify how spirituality was understood by youth living with bipolar disorder, and the relationship between spirituality and bipolar disorder in the study population.
2. Describe the inner and outer work that FCNs can do to promote the spiritual wellbeing of others and themselves.
Disclosure:
Approval Statement: This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Learner Outcomes: Upon completion, the learner will be able to:
1. Identify how spirituality was understood by youth living with bipolar disorder, and the relationship between spirituality and bipolar disorder in the study population.
2. Describe the inner and outer work that FCNs can do to promote the spiritual wellbeing of others and themselves.
Criteria for successful completion: The participant must attend all of the activity and complete the self-evaluation and post-test at 75%.
Relevant financial relationship: This educational activity does not include any content that relates to the products and/or services of an ineligible company with whom there is a financial relationship.
Commercial support: There is no commercial support being received for this event.
Expiration date: June 26, 2025 to June 25, 2027.
Registration: CNE 1.0 ANCC contact hours.
You have 10 days to complete the video and submit the evaluation for 1.0 ANCC contact hours.
$20 for Members; $40 for Nonmembers
Register: www.fcninternational.org
