Diets and weight loss talk are normative in our culture, and this preoccupation with body size and food has a profound effect on the mental and physical health of our clients. In this session, we’ll take an in-depth look at a client’s experience with multiple therapists on her journey to cultivate a healthy body image, confront weight stigma, and make peace with food. We’ll consider how our own views toward body size and food impact what we offer clients, and we’ll explore strategies to unlearn diet culture for ourselves and with our clients.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Recovery from disordered eating and body image issues is often solely focused on behaviour change. Rarely are clinicians informed about the “nuances” of recovery, such as the important stage of body forgiveness and how this presents along the recovery path. Body forgiveness helps our clients develop a relationship with their body through increasing embodiment, decreasing objectification and body shame, and increasing internal forgiveness, self-compassion and self-care and positive body image.
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The experience of complex trauma significantly contributes to binge eating disorder (BED) and body dissatisfaction. If you treat trauma, you treat BED. Sadly, few clinicians are trained in dealing with both concerns, which impacts treatment for these clients. In this session, you will learn key questions to ask to uncover whether your client has BED; the impact of complex trauma on the development of BED and related body image concerns; how to look at BED through an IFS lens; and how to avoid harm by using somatic healing and intuitive eating and movement.
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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.
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Emerging research suggests that individuals who identify as LGBTQ+ may be at higher risk of experiencing body image concerns and disordered eating alongside barriers to appropriate treatment. This session focuses on understanding the challenges that LGBTQ+ individuals face so that we can create safer spaces that invite them to heal. We will review specific interventions that can help connect LGBTQ+ individuals to recovery in ways that are relevant to their journey.
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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.
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Clients are swimming upstream when it comes to positive body image. Hounded with unattainable white western standards about what constitutes an acceptable body, many stop pursuing the life they want. And at the same time, clients can feel shame that they struggle with body positivity and may blame themselves for being stuck. This session will teach you strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients accept the body they inhabit and use it to pursue meaningful activities even as they experience distressing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
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In this session, you will:
No matter whose body walks through your clinic door, you’ll be ready and confident to deliver more informed, inclusive care centred on body image, eating disorders, food, and weight!
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Sexual trauma can set off body hatred and create a distancing from the body, particularly the sexual body, in order to feel safe again. In this session, we’ll explore sociocultural and neurobiological factors affecting clients’ relationships with their bodies after sexual trauma. Working to reduce shame and self-blame, we will develop tools for assisting clients with befriending their sexual bodies. You will learn powerful interventions including cognitive reframing of the context while adding somatic experiencing and sensorimotor tools for healing the body, as well as relational and social strategies for practising safe intimacy again.
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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.
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Emotional avoidance is a distinguishing feature of eating disorders as well as many other clinical conditions, including anxiety and depression which often co-occur with disordered eating and body image concerns. This session will demonstrate how emotional awareness, tolerance, and acceptance can be built utilizing transdiagnostic treatment.
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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.
Copyright : 01/02/2022Psychoanalytic thinking offers valuable insights to clinicians working with eating disorders and body image concerns. In a field that increasingly emphasizes rapid symptom reduction, treatment providers risk neglecting less overt, and less easily measurable, aspects of the patient’s experience. This presentation will bring together the latest thinking about how a psychoanalytic approach can help us to understand the emotional experience of an eating disorder more deeply. As a member of a larger treatment team, the psychoanalytic psychotherapist assists the patient in contending with an internal landscape marked by isolation and loneliness as well as shame, guilt, and embarrassment, not to mention a profound hopelessness about the possibilities of emotional connection. In this presentation, we will discuss the role of the psychoanalytic thinking within a broader therapeutic approach and several common psychodynamic themes commonly observed in patients with eating disorders.
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For many of our clients, to ignore the spiritual is to ignore their sense of the very essence of who they are. Use of clients’ spiritual beliefs in the process of treatment, recovery, and healing can be done ethically and respectfully in ways that improve clinical outcomes. Integration of spirituality into psychotherapy is especially important for those suffering eating disorders and body image concerns, the hallmark of which is disconnection from one’s true-identity. This session will show how attending to “the spiritual” need not detract from nor replace evidence based clinical interventions - rather, use of spiritually-inclusive clinical approaches can support and strengthen best practices.
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Join Kim Clairy, OTR/L, an autistic occupational therapist, for this interview style session as she shares her journey breaking through many personal and societal barriers, including navigating the healthcare system with ASD and an eating disorder (ED). Kim is joined by Marcella Raimondo, PhD, MPH, a passionate and spirited clinical psychologist who specializes in treating eating disorders.
Copyright : 07/02/2022