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The Problem with Diet Culture: What Every Therapist, Health Professional, Educator and Parent Needs to Know
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When it comes to dieting, food and weight, what we say, what we do, and even what we think affects what we communicate to our clients and pass down to the next generation. In this presentation, you’ll explore what therapists, health professionals, educators and parents need to know about diet culture and diet failure. You’ll explore ways to challenge weight-stigma and learn healthy ways to approach weight concerns.
OUTLINE:
- What you need to know about diet failure
- What is diet culture
i.How does it harm people of all sizes?
ii.What does the research tell us?
- Exploring the diet binge cycle
- Understanding shame
i.Why do so many people have it?
ii.How do we talk about it?
- What to do instead
- The antidote to diet failure
i.When, what and how much to eat
- Eating for nourishment and pleasure
- Challenging weight stigma and fat-shaming
- What are positive sustainable behaviors
- How to be Health as Every Size (HAES) friendly
- Understanding thin privilege
- Exploring intersectionality of oppressions your clients may be dealing with
- How to stop engaging in diet and fat shaming talk
f. How to deliver healthy messages for the next generation
OBJECTIVES:
Explain the negative impact of diet culture
Develop a health at every size framework for clinical practice
Judith Matz, LCSW, ACSW
Judith Matz, LCSW, ACSW, is co-author of The Making Peace with Food Card Deck, The Body Positivity Card Deck, and two books on the topics of eating and weight struggles. Beyond a Shadow of a Diet: The Comprehensive Guide to Treating Binge Eating Disorder, Compulsive Eating and Emotional Overeating, has been called “the new bible” on this topic for professionals. The Diet Survivor’s Handbook: 60 Lessons in Eating, Acceptance and Self-Care was a #1 bestseller on Amazon and a favorite resource for therapists to use with clients. She is also the author of Amanda’s Big Dream, a children’s book that helps kids to pursue their dreams – at any size! Judith has a private practice in Skokie, IL where she focuses her work with clients who want to get off the diet/binge rollercoaster and learn to feel at home in their bodies. Through her individual counseling, groups, workshops, presentations and books, Judith has helped thousands of people to develop self-care skills that increase physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing without a focus on the pursuit of weight loss. Through educational programs, she is dedicated to helping people end the preoccupation with food and weight. Judith received her MSW at University of Michigan and earned her post-graduate certificate at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, where she trained in the treatment of eating disorders. Judith is a frequent contributor to the Psychotherapy Networker magazine and a popular speaker at national conferences. Descriptions of her work have appeared in the media including the New York Times, LA Times, Allure, Fitness, Self, Shape, Today’s Dietitian, Diabetes Self-Management, NBC News Chicago, Huffington Post Live, and she appears in the documentary America The Beautiful 2.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Judith Matz is the director of The Chicago Center for Overcoming Overeating, Inc. and maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as a published author. Judith Matz receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Judith Matz is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the National Eating Disorder Association, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health.
