Wire Your Brain for Happiness
This course helps learners describe how happiness, positive experiences, and emotions affect the brain. The relationship between happiness and neuroplasticity, determinants of happiness, happiness assessment tools, and practices to increase happiness is also explored.
Wire Your Brain for Happiness
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Course code: T14789
The hidden power of everyday positive experiences can change your brain and change your life. Everyone wants to be happy and healthy. By focusing on becoming happier and creating positive experiences, research suggests that we will experience increased energy, improved immune function, increased creativity, improved relationships, and increased productivity. Happiness results in a healthier brain, a more vibrant body, and a longer life.
The outcome of this course is for the learner to describe how happiness, positive experiences, and emotions affect the brain. The relationship between happiness and neuroplasticity, determinants of happiness, happiness assessment tools, and practices to increase happiness will be examined.
(1.5 contact hours)
Expiration Date (Next date of course revision): 10/01/2026
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Accreditation:
American Nurses Credentialing Center
ALLEGRA Learning Solutions, LLC is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
ALLEGRA Learning Solutions, LLC is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
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What you will learn
- Define happiness
- Describe positive experiences and emotions
- Discuss the relationship between happiness and experience-dependent neuroplasticity
- Compare the determinants of happiness
- Examine happiness assessment tools
- Describe the practices that increase happiness and health
How you will benefit
- Increase skills/knowledge related to the impact of happiness, positive experiences, and emotions on the brain as well as ways to assess and increase happiness
- Provide increased career opportunities for healthcare providers who work in mental health settings
- Provide continuing education in behavioral health related to happiness, the assessment of happiness, and methods to increase happiness
- Increase career opportunities in the holistic or integrative health care arena
How the course is taught
- Self-Guided, online course
- 3 Months access
- 1.5 course hours
Instructors & Support
Requirements
Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites to take this course.
Requirements:
Hardware Requirements:
- This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac, or Chromebook.
Software Requirements:
- PC: Windows 10 or later.
- Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
- Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.
Other:
- Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.
Instructional Material Requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.