Objectives:
- Define body dysmorphic disorder
- Explore symptoms and issues experienced by people with BDD
- Identify common co-occurring issues
- Review literature on current treatment strategies for BDD
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Objectives
- Define an Eating Disorder
- Discuss indicators of readiness for change
- Explore factors maintaining disordered eating
- Learn how to teach patients to self monitor their eating behaviors
- Explore the crucial issue for many patients with eating disorders of regular eating and weighing
- Learn about the function and effects of Binge Eating, Purging and Driven Exercise
- Identify how moods impact disordered eating
- Explore the role of dietary restriction and rules in maintaining disordered eating, along with guidelines for normal eating.
- Explore how people with eating disorders place an unusually high value on controlling their eating, weight and/or shape, and how they judge their self-worth accordingly
- Review information and strategies to start changing the thoughts associated with disordered eating and weight control habits
- Get introduced to a range of strategies for challenging dietary rules and restriction, and food avoidance.
- Discuss some of the consequences of over-emphasizing shape and weight.
- Explores the role of low self-esteem in disordered eating and weight control habits.
- Peruse strategies for improving self-esteem by developing new rules for living and new, more balanced beliefs about yourself.
- Define the "eating disorder mindset," a set of distorted beliefs about eating, weight and shape
- Develop a plan for maintaining the goals that have been achieved so far and preventing relapse
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Objectives
- Explore information on the use of the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
- Summarize the diagnostic characteristics for anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder
- Summarize the most common psychotherapeutic interventions for each disorder
- Describe the characteristics of clients with each of these disorders
- Identify common psychological and medical disorders that cooccur with eating disorders
- Describe how to place patients in any appropriate level of care
- Identify psychological or physical symptoms in comment in eating disorders which may necessitate hospitalization
- Summarize the goals of treatment for persons with eating disorders
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Objectives
- Define emotional eating
- Explore the function of emotional eating
- Discuss the evolutionary and behavioral factors which make high-fat, high sugar foods rewarding
- Identify strategies to deal with emotional eating
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Objectives:
- Learn about bariatric surgery
- Explore reasons for the surgery and increase in popularity
- Identify the psychosocial outcomes of bariatric surgery
- Identify common presenting issues in persons seeking bariatric surgery
- Explore current recommendations for assessment protocols and presurgical preparation for bariatric surgery
- Identify postoperative mental and physical health issues which may occur and need to be addressed
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes