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Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Bingeing and Body Image: What Every Clinician Needs to Know

“I’m too fat.” “I’m on a diet.” “Today is a cheat day.” Once I lose weight, I’ll be happier.” “My eating is out of control.”

This kind of language runs rampant in our society and has no doubt made its way to your office. Clients who struggle with weight and food issues get caught in a vortex of shame, preoccupation and hopelessness. Trapped between the rigidity of dieting and the chaos of overeating, every day can be an emotional battle that may exacerbate or even result in low self-worth, eating disorders, anxiety or depression.

Treatment of these issues is more than a matter of weight loss or self-control. In fact, many times these very interventions do more harm than good!

Watch Judith Matz as she shows you how to help your clients identify the shame that is woven into the diet-binge cycle, challenge unhelpful thoughts and feelings, and repair dysfunctional relationships with food – no willpower necessary!

Packed with practical tips and backed by research, this comprehensive 1-day seminar will teach you how to:

  • Identify issues related to food, weight and body image in your very first session.
  • Utilize CBT, mindfulness and attuned eating strategies to transform shame into empowerment.
  • Discover personal bias and attitudes that may be counterproductive to the therapeutic process.
  • Help clients develop a healthy framework that ends out of control eating and is not subject to fad diets.
  • Learn why clients get stuck in the diet/binge cycle and how to finally break it.

Purchase today!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze different clinical presentations regarding emotional eating, Binge Eating Disorder, disordered eating and weight concerns.
  2. Determine the impact of diet culture on disordered eating patterns and body image issues that present in clinical treatment.
  3. Demonstrate to clients how to implement the three essential steps of attuned eating to replace disordered eating patterns, including binge eating.
  4. Develop psychoeducation for clients regarding the process of translating emotional issues into eating and weight loss focus that results in shame.
  5. Integrate strategies to help clients regulate emotional distress without turning to food and to cultivate a positive body image.
  6. Analyze the impact of personal bias and weight stigma on clients both within and outside of the treatment setting.
  7. Evaluate the body of research related to the Health At Every Size framework as it relates to weight and health, and promoting positive, sustainable behaviors.

Outline

Assessment

  • 3 crucial questions to ask at intake
  • DSM-5®: Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
  • The difference between BED, disordered eating, and emotional overeating
  • Sub-clinical disordered eating patterns
The Root of the Problem
  • The backdrop of diet culture
  • Why dieting doesn’t work and weight is not the problem
  • Food as a form of affect regulation
  • Shame about food and body size
  • Co-morbid mental health conditions
Moving Clients from Shame to Empowerment: Treatment Strategies that Work
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
    • Challenge the problem of good/bad thinking
    • Restructure thoughts to be more curious and less judgmental
    • End negative body talk and challenge internalized weight stigma
  • Mindfulness Practices That Promote Emotional Regulation
    • Guided visualizations that bring emotional calm
    • Diaphragmatic breathing exercise
    • Taking in The Good (Hanson’s Buddha Brain practice)
  • Self-Compassion Skills That Are Essential to Recovery
    • How compassion reduces overeating and bingeing
    • Allowing for and tolerating emotional experiences
    • Neff’s 3 steps of self-compassion
  • Attuned Eating: The Antidote to Diet Failure
    • Implementing the 3 steps of attuned eating
    • Tools to help clients overcome common obstacles
    • Psychological vs. physiological hunger
    • Working with different eating styles (vegetarian, health concerns, etc.)
  • The Health at Every Size (HAES) Approach
    • 5 principles of HAES to apply to your practice immediately
    • Debunk myths about weight and health – a look at the evidence
    • Become a HAES-informed therapist
Clinical Considerations
  • How therapists may inadvertently contribute to fat-shaming
  • Manage issues of countertransference regarding body size
  • Considerations for individual vs. group treatment
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 03/21/2022

ACT for Eating and Body Image Concerns: Help Clients Drop the Rope in their Tug of War with Food and Weight

Caught in a tug of war with food and weight, many clients presenting for therapy suffer in their battle with body image and eating.

Entangled in preoccupation about weight loss and feeling stuck in cycles of rigid dieting, the chaos of overeating, shame, and hopelessness clients present with negative self-worth, eating disorders, relationship problems, anxiety, or depression.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Watch Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) expert and author Diana Hill, Ph.D., to learn ACT—a fresh, modern and evidence-based approach—for treating eating and weight concerns.

In this experiential training, Dr. Hill will guide you through a new way of conceptualizing eating concerns as an attempt to control or avoid the discomfort of living. You’ll learn ACT practices to help clients build the superpower of psychological flexibility—the skill they need to stay present, open, and free to engage in what matters most to them, even in the face of life’s many obstacles.

Watch and learn…

  • Powerful strategies to motivate clients to choose a different path
  • Experiential exercises to increase acceptance, willingness, and allowing of difficult feelings and cravings
  • “Beginners mind” and “one-eye-in one-eye-out” to increase client’s contact with the present moment
  • How to apply cognitive defusion strategies with clients
  • “The attuned parent” strategy to increase client’s perspective taking and self-compassion
  • Values-based action plans to guide clients in taking committed action toward their values

Purchase today to begin your journey with helping clients let go of their struggle with food and weight and direct their energy toward building rich and meaningful lives!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Hypothesize the role that control and experiential avoidance play in the development and maintenance of eating disorder behavior.
  2. Demonstrate an experiential exercise to increase acceptance, willingness, and allowing of difficult feelings and cravings.
  3. Use strategies such as beginners mind and one-eye-in one-eye-out to increase client’s contact with the present moment.
  4. Distinguish the difference between cognitive restructuring and cognitive defusion and be able to apply cognitive defusion strategies with clients.
  5. Perform experiential practices such as “the attuned parent” to increase client’s perspective taking and self-compassion.
  6. Create clinical strategies such as the choice point model to increase values awareness.
  7. Employ clinical strategies such as values-based action plans to guide clients in taking committed action toward their values.

Outline

Why ACT for Eating and Weight Concerns?
A New Approach to an Old Problem

  • Latest research on ACT for eating disorders and weight concerns
  • Avoidance and control in the development and maintenance of chronic dieting and overeating
  • Metaphor to illustrate the paradox of control
  • Creative hopelessness to motivate clients to try something different
  • Psychological Flexibility (PF) as a new path
ACCEPTANCE-BASED STRATEGIES & EXPERIENTIAL EXERCISES TO BUILD PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY
Being Present: Help Clients Live in the Now
  • How being present relates to eating and weight concerns
  • Shift clients from “doing something” about their body to “being in” their body
  • Cultivate beginner’s mind and one-eye-in, one-eyeout skills
  • Practices for embodied eating and embodied movement
Cognitive Defusion: Help Clients Get Space from their “News Feed”
  • A different approach to preoccupation with food and weight
  • The paradox of trying to control thoughts about eating and weight
  • A new metaphor for preoccupation with food and weight
  • Practices for food rules, shoulds, body comparison, and “what the heck” thoughts
Acceptance: Help Clients be Courageous, Willing and Open
  • What acceptance is and what it is not
  • How chronic dieting, preoccupation with food, emotional overeating, and over-exercise can serve as experiential avoidance strategies
  • How to use the experiential avoidance roundabout metaphor with clients
  • Practices for willingness and curiosity to expand clients’ window of flexibility
Perspective Taking: Help Clients Take in the View
  • How rigid self-stories about eating and weight limits flexibility and connection
  • How to identify when a client is stuck in a self-story
  • Practice flexible perspective taking with clients
  • Cultivate an “attuned parent’ perspective to increase self-compassion and wise responses with food and weight
CHANGE-BASED STRATEGIES AND EXPERIENTIAL EXERCISES TO BUILD PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY
Values: Help Clients Choose Direction
  • How values are defined in ACT
  • The role of values in motivating change
  • How to use the choice point model to increase awareness of values
Committed Action: Help Clients Fall on Purpose and Why it Matters
  • Uncover intrinsic motivation for change with values
  • Focus on action over outcome while working toward change
  • Behavioral science to support small, sustainable changes
  • Create values-based action plans
Integration: Practice putting it all together
  • Case examples
  • How to use the 6 core processes when clients are off track
  • The role of therapist PF in supporting client psychological flexibility
  • Limitations of research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 08/11/2023

Untangling Weight and Health: A Physician's Perspective

Though we may have become aware of the harms of diet culture, many of us still worry about the negative impacts of weight on health. We may actively promote our clients’ journey towards body positivity but continue to “watch our own weight.” We may feel comfortable with weight neutral self-care, but only up to a certain BMI or with certain health conditions. This session will explore the myths and realities of the relationship between weight and health. Through cases, research, and resources, you will be empowered to reduce weight stigma in your office and to advocate for a weight-inclusive approach to health for all your clients. 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze the relationships among weight, weight stigma, and health.
  2. Apply weight inclusive health principles to common clinical scenarios.
  3. Critically appraise weight-related health research.

Outline

  • Weight and Health: Correlation vs Causation
  • Weight Stigma as a Key Driver of Health Disparities
  • Weight Inclusive Healthcare Philosophy and Practice
  • Resources
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Nurses
  • Other mental health professionals

Copyright : 02/24/2022

Emotional and Disordered Eating: Trauma-Informed Clinical Tools to Heal Your Clients' Relationship with Food and Body

When your clients struggle with eating, your first move as a therapist may be to develop plans for specific behavioral changes - a list of things clients can do instead of reaching for the fork or limiting food intake.

But these efforts won’t work over the long term. Emotional eating – and the eating disorders it can become – is rooted in nervous system dysregulation and disembodiment that behavior change strategies alone won’t shift.

The body needs to be included for treatment to be effective. Without it, disembodiment will continue, keeping your clients stuck in the cycle of disordered eating and losing hope in your work with them.

Watch Ann Saffi Biasetti, PhD, LCSWR, CEDS, specialist in eating disorders and somatic psychotherapy, for this in-depth training where you’ll discover how to integrate the body in treatment in a way that fosters real change in your clients’ relationships with food and their bodies!

Packed with practical interventions, this comprehensive seminar will provide you with strategies to:

  • Shift from shame to empowerment from the very beginning of treatment
  • Calm the nervous system and regulate emotions without turning to food
  • Help clients re-establish body cues for hunger and fullness
  • Replace the harsh inner critic with self-compassion

Purchase today to help clients manage what is happening on the inside to build resilience, improve emotion regulation, and establish a new compassionate and forgiving relationship with their body!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Conduct psychoeducation about the nervous system and oppression-related cultural factors.
  2. Employ body literacy skills to improve clients’ interoceptive awareness.
  3. Apply somatic and nervous system tracking in session to improve emotion regulation.
  4. Utilize the skill of somatic tracking for co-regulation.
  5. Describe the three components of self-compassion and utilize self-compassion skills to reduce shame.
  6. Differentiate between emotional eating and a clinical eating disorder to determine appropriate level of care.

Outline

The Nervous System Intake
Reduce Shame and Open Self-Compassion

  • Redefining the term emotional eating
  • Why somatic interventions are imperative in breaking the cycle of disordered eating - and the state of the research on them
  • Polyvagal understanding of the autonomic nervous system
  • Embodiment tools for clients
  • Mapping the embodied states of the clinician’s own nervous system
  • A trauma-informed, embodied understanding of emotional and disordered eating
  • Case Examples and Practices:
    • Feet, spine and seat
    • Fluid breath
    • 3-stage breath
    • Release breath
What Happens in My Body, Happens in My Brain
How Embodiment Heals
  • The role of the limbic system
  • Interoceptive awareness as the missing link
  • Impact of the nervous system on hunger and fullness cues and eating behaviors
  • How to help clients develop body literacy
  • Case Examples and Practices:
    • Body scan for body literacy
    • Brain-based interoceptive awareness
Co-Regulation: Relationship Matters!
How the Therapist’s Nervous System Impacts Clients
  • Neuroception according to polyvagal theory
  • Embody neuroception in a session
  • Somatic tracking and intervention
  • Keys to building nervous system window of tolerance for eating-related behavior change
  • Case Examples and Practices:
    • Embodying safety and protection
    • Somatic tracking demonstration
The Intersection of Culture and Disembodiment:
Systems that Dysregulate and Their Impact on Body Image
  • Embodiment and body image
  • Oppressive systems that cause dysregulation
  • Diet culture and media/marketing
  • Body image, nervous system, and emotions
  • Case Examples and Practices:
    • The way you were born
    • In this moment, with these feelings
Embodying Self-Compassion
Self-Compassion as Essential to Emotion Regulation
  • The three components of self-compassion
  • The power of self-compassion to balance, heal and repair emotional eating
  • Developing self-compassion when there is none to be found
  • How self-compassion decreases objectification and body shame
  • Help clients develop body forgiveness
  • Case Examples and Practices:
    • Embodying dysregulation with compassion
    • Body forgiveness
When Emotional Eating is Really Eating Disorder
And Other Clinical Considerations
  • Key diagnostic questions and assessments
  • When do clients need an eating disorder specialist or a higher level of care?
  • How to integrate treatment strategies and approaches - what does it mean to be somatically-informed?
  • Countertransference issues
  • Impact of the therapist’s own relationship with body, body image, food, and eating
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Registered Dieticians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Psychiatric Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 01/30/2023

Intuitive Eating: Healing Clients’ Relationship with Food

Healing body image is important work for our clients. As they engage in that healing, we also need to provide tools to help heal their relationship with food. The influence of diet culture and fatphobia leads to food rules that dominate our client’s eating for years.  Intuitive eating is a path that allows clients to end the war with food and re-learn how to tune into their bodies and develop a more peaceful relationship with food and body.  You’ll learn how the 10 principles of intuitive eating help clients feel safer in their bodies and around food.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Employ the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating in working with clients.
  2. Evaluate clients' eating based on the 4 characteristics of intuitive eaters.
  3. Demonstrate for clients how restricting leads to binge eating.

Outline

  • How to integrate the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating
  • Tools to evaluate clients’ eating - the four characteristics of intuitive eaters
  • Connection between Intuitive Eating and body image
  • How to challenge the dieting mindset
  • Applying Intuitive Eating with chronic health conditions

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Nurses
  • Other mental health professionals

Copyright : 02/24/2022

Trauma-Related Emotional Eating: Effective Interventions for Chronic Overeating and Binge Eating Disorder

Trauma creates fertile ground for issues with food.

When does emotional eating become disordered eating? And when does disordered eating become an eating disorder?

Most clinicians are not aware of the overlap between trauma, emotional eating, and eating disorders, missing key interventions that relieve clients’ suffering.

Your clients may be struggling at mealtimes – and if you aren’t asking about their relationship with food, you may unintentionally be reinforcing their shame.

Really – given the high rates of co-occurrence – if you’re doing trauma work, you likely already have clients with disordered eating, including Binge Eating Disorder (BED), the most common and most underdiagnosed eating disorder.

Not an eating disorders specialist? You can still treat BED! Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, expert BED psychotherapist, will share with you a comprehensive, evidence-based toolkit of successful interventions that will:

  • Transform your client’s relationship with food, weight, and body image
  • Approach trauma and binge eating disorder from an IFS-informed framework, somatic interventions, and more
  • Integrate the crucial strategies of attuned eating and movement
  • Root your practice in the tenets of weight-neutral recovery

Don’t let trauma continue to wreak havoc on your clients’ experience of eating. Purchase now to help your traumatized clients forge a peaceful relationship with food.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze the relationships between stress, trauma, diet culture, weight stigma, and emotional eating.
  2. Utilize trauma-informed assessment questions to gather information about clients’ food history and body image to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
  3. Appraise the relationship between weight and health to help clients identify and challenge internalized weight stigma and body shame.
  4. Analyze the role of dissociation and identity fragmentation in BED.
  5. Employ IFS-informed strategies to assist clients with building affect tolerance and developing self-compassion.
  6. Develop two strategies for navigating counter transference and clinician bias.

Outline

The Spectrum of Overeating: From Emotional Eating to Binge Eating Disorder (BED)

  • Toxic context of diet culture and weight stigma
  • Key facts about the role of trauma and dissociation
  • Why food addiction is a myth
  • Common triggers to bingeing, including therapy and therapists
  • Client voices – what a binge is really like
Assessment: The Right Questions to Get Underneath Eating-Related Shame
  • 5 must-ask intake questions and how to gather food history information
  • Understand clients’ eating behaviors
  • Assess mental health comorbidities and co-occurring medical issues
  • Connection between binge eating and body image
  • Key tenets of weight-neutral recovery
Clinical Strategies to Address Deprivation Mentality and Stop the Diet-Binge Cycle
  • The truth about the relationship between weight and health
  • Challenge cultural messages regarding weight stigma and fat phobia
  • Integrate Health at Every Size (HAES) into your practice
  • The body as wise ally: Using the body as the best source of information
  • 5 steps of attuned eating
  • Attuned movement versus exercise
Effective Interventions: Why You Can Treat BED, Even If You Are Not An Eating Disorders Specialist
  • Why a do-no-harm, strengths-based approach is critical
  • How threats to foundational safety create core beliefs supporting eating disorders
  • Teach clients to know when the trauma narrative has been triggered
  • Help clients step into “Self” with IFSinformed recovery strategies
  • Work directly with fragmented parts to stop the binge-diet cycle
  • Best practice somatic interventions
  • Reinvent body image to help clients feel at home in their bodies
  • Help clients develop connections that build resilience and align with recovery
Clinical Considerations
  • Impact on treatment of the clinician’s relationship with food and body image
  • Tips for modeling body acceptance, respect, and love in your practice
  • Multicultural issues – gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and more
  • Form collaborative relationships with other treating professionals
  • Resources for weight-neutral medical/nutritional care
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Registered Dieticians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Psychiatric Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 10/28/2022

EMDR for Body Image Concerns and Disordered Eating

EMDR can be a core intervention in the treatment and maintenance of recovery from trauma, including its impacts on body image and disordered eating. This session will offer suggestions for all 8 phases of EMDR treatment and review ways to work collaboratively with medical providers. Somatic awareness, self-nurturance, and wellness principles are an important part of treatment and will be discussed alongside cultural implications. You will learn to use sensitive terminology and the “do’s and don’ts” for these clients.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze the relationships between childhood trauma, attachment, dissociation, and disordered eating.
  2. Employ at least 5 evidence-based, culturally-sensitive EMDR interventions.
  3. Develop effective communication strategies with clients’ spouses/partners, families, medical providers, and other treatment team members.

Outline

  • Understanding the evidence base for EMDR with body image concerns and disordered eating
  • Nuances of language - do’s and don’ts in treatment
  • EMDR Phases 1-8 and Future Template, with modifications for eating disorders and body image concerns
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors  
  • Social Workers  
  • Psychologists  
  • Psychiatrists  
  • Marriage & Family Therapists  
  • Addiction Counselors  
  • Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Other mental health professionals

Copyright : 01/10/2022

Eating Disorders Treatment: Applying a Social Justice Lens for Healing and Liberation

Body dissatisfaction is a primary driver of eating disorders, and when eating disorders occur in marginalized individuals, related dynamics are increasingly complex. Marginalized people seeking professional help may find eating disorders services – which were constructed for cisgender, heterosexual, affluent, thin, able-bodied women – unequipped to provide intervention and treatment for their intersecting identities. This session focuses on practical interventions informed by social justice principles to ensure all individuals with eating disorders can access safe treatment options.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Appraise the research and practice gaps with regard to EDs and treatment.
  2. Analyze what eating disorders treatment would look like through a social justice lens.
  3. Develop ways to translate awareness into action in our understandings of and approaches to ED treatment.

Outline

  • Eating Disorders and Social Justice
    • Interventions with a social justice approach
    • Supporting research
    • Group work
    • Real case vignettes: The struggles of marginalized folks accessing treatment
       
  • Self-Reflection Dialogue
    • Safety agreement reviewed again
    • Self-reflection exercise
    • Ways to safely and compassionately move through discomfort when discussing social justice
       
  • Advocate for Change
    • ​​​​​​​Promote social justice in our eating disorders clinics and the field overall
       
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Nurses
  • Other mental health professionals

Copyright : 02/25/2022

Every Body Counts: Culturally-Attuned Care for Marginalized Individuals Struggling with Disordered Eating and Body Image

Eating disorders do not discriminate, yet related assessment and treatment approaches are typically geared toward what has long been considered a “typical” client with an eating disorder: white, heterosexual, cisgender, college-educated, affluent, able-bodied, thin women. These narrow parameters do not include every body. This session will show you how to break down barriers in your practice. You will learn to support inclusion by recognizing the spectrum of body image concerns and related disordered eating in a culturally-attuned manner that takes systems of oppression and marginalization into account.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Differentiate between a syndrome-based and symptom-based approach to conceptualizing disordered eating.
  2. Apply culturally sensitive, trauma-informed, and respectful language in discussing bodies and weight.
  3. Appraise ways that traditional eating disorders assessment may underdetect people in marginalized communities.

Outline

  • DEFINING EATING DISORDERS - DSM Diagnostic Categories / Symptoms versus Syndromes / Limitations of current models
  • ETIOLOGIES / ASSESSMENT - Who suffers? What we know about incidence, prevalence / Cultural Considerations/Perspectives / Limitations in assessment with marginalized populations / Diet Culture, fatphobia, and weight stigma
  • MULTIMODAL MODELS: TREATMENT AND CULTURE SHIFTING - Rethinking/redefining “evidence” / Health At Every Size (HAES), Body Trust, body positive movements
  • THE TREATMENT RELATIONSHIP(S) - Culturally responsive care: language and bias / Clinician bias and countertransference
  • LIMITATIONS OF THE RESEARCH AND POTENTIAL RISKS

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Nurses
  • Other mental health professionals

Copyright : 02/24/2022

Black Women, Body Image, and Eating Disorders: The Missing Links in Research and Treatment

So often, the hidden assumption in assessment and treatment for poor body image is that clients’ negative views of their bodies are subjective and can shift with individual interventions. Yet oppression and race-based trauma informs the ways in which disordered eating and poor body image presents for Black women. Black women are confronted every day with the contradictory message that their bodies are both “too much” for Western society and also “not enough” for Western society.  In this session, we will explore how weight stigma and thin privilege are influenced by racism, specifically anti-Blackness, and learn how to better serve Black women in treatment settings where eating and body image are at the forefront.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze racial bias in eating disorder and body image research.
  2. Conduct culturally relevant and sensitive assessments and interventions for Black women clients struggling with eating and body image.
  3. Determine strategies for skillfully raising conversations about race and gender into discussions about food and eating disorder recovery.

Outline

  • What are we talking about?
    • DSM categories
    • Limitations in the research and how this impacts assessment and treatment; the absence of Black women
    • Research bias; the erasure of Black women from research on restrictive disorders and the focus on binge eating in Black women
    • Weight bias and racism in health and research
  • Who are we talking about?
    • Black women in Western society
    • The racial, ethnic and cultural relevance in eating disorder development and presentation-The function of restrictive eating disorders and weight loss in Black women
    • Case studies
  • Treatment and assessment
    • What is “evidence based” in research that is heavily biased?
    • Limitations of assessment and interventions -Culturally relevant conversations about food
    • Why body image curriculum harms Black women
  • Going forward
    • When to discuss race with clients
    • How to bring racial harm into conversations about disordered eating

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Nurses
  • Other mental health professionals

Copyright : 02/24/2022

Bringing Men to the Table: Effective Interventions for Eating Disorders and Body Image Concerns in Males

Males, long thought to make up just 1 in 10 eating disorder cases, require help in ever greater numbers. Latest research indicates males represent up to a third of those identified with anorexia and bulimia, half with binge eating, and the majority with muscle dysmorphia. To identify and treat males, it takes a complete re-think of what you assume eating disorders look like and how to assist those who are struggling with the deadliest mental illness in the DSM.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Demonstrate appropriate screening tools and approaches for males with eating disorders and body image concerns.
  2. Develop specific clinical practice goals to enhance prevention or treatment approaches with males.
  3. Integrate social justice factors in treatment of males with body image concerns.

Outline

  • Etiology, psychological assessment, and evidence-based intervention
  • Latest research in the field of males with eating disorders
  • Social justice including racial, ethnic, sexual and gender diversity populations
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Nurses
  • Other mental health professionals

Copyright : 02/25/2022

Health at Every Size®: A Weight-Inclusive Paradigm for Eating Disorders Treatment, Body Image Issues, Recovery and Harm-Reduction

Health at Every Size (HAES)™ has become a widely used frame in the treatment of eating disorders, especially for those clients who are higher weight, because of the prevalence of weight stigma and discrimination in both the culture and clinical care. This presentation will clarify the tenants of HAES™ and discuss how and why they can be helpful for individuals who require healing from eating disorders and also from anti-fatness and the resulting trauma. The importance of recognizing healthism will be addressed along with the limitations of HAES™ in communities who face oppression(s) and the need for concepts that provide harm reduction to break down the walls fortifying barriers-to-care.

Program Information

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Nurses
  • Other mental health professionals

Copyright : 02/01/2022

The Making Peace with Food Card Deck

End chronic dieting and heal your relationship with food.

In this unique and easy-to-use card deck, you’ll find 59 anti-diet strategies to help you break free from the diet mindset and find peace with food. Learn how to:

  • Reject diet culture
  • Honor your hunger cues
  • Practice attuned eating
  • Find self-compassion
  • Nourish your body
  • Navigate emotional eating
  • Rediscover joy in life

CBECDP Panel Discussion | Body Image Intro

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