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Saturday, March 7, 2009: 3:45 PM-5:15 PM
Shanghai (Westin Long Beach)
Reclaiming a healthy, positive relationship wth food and the body is essential to eating disorder recovery. Clients get many messages about food, eating, and health from us as professionals and from society. How do these messages conflict and concur? What do we really believe about food and eating? Do all foods really fit? How do our personal and professional beliefs about food and nourishment impact the work we do with clients? This keynote aims to address these questions and encourage participants to actively consider their own food-related beliefs and understand how these help shape their philosophy of recovery.
This keynote will address the issues around reclaiming a healthy, positive relationship with food and the body that is essential to eating disorder recovery. The goal of the keynote is to raise controversial questions about food beliefs-both personal beliefs that have the potential to impact our work with clients and those related to the expectations of individuals struggling with eating disorders as they work in treatment. Areas to be covered include, what is a health relationship with food and how does it play out in the lives of our clients, what do the concepts of normal eating and healthy eating mean and how do they play out in real-life, and how do our food related beliefs impact us and our work? The session and presenter aim to be lively, engaging, and stimulating so that participants leave thinking about their beliefs and check in with themselves about how the things they might believe about food, weight, and eating might impact their professional work.
This keynote will address the issues around reclaiming a healthy, positive relationship with food and the body that is essential to eating disorder recovery. Clients get many messages about food, eating, and health from us as professionals and from society. They often bring these messages to sessions for discussion and their beliefs about food, weight, and body significantly impact their progress in the therapeutic work they are doing. As a professional, it is important to have an understanding of how these messages conflict and concur. This session will challenge participants to explore what they believe about food and eating. We say all foods fit. But do they really? Do we believe that? Do our clients think we believe that? Do we talk about it enough? How do our personal and professional beliefs about food and nourishment impact the work we do with clients? This keynote aims to address these questions and encourage participants to actively consider their own food-related beliefs and understand how these help shape their philosophy of recovery. Common food and eating exercises and expectations in eating disorder treatment will be reviewed, and the potentially controversial areas of renourishment and eating will be explored. Areas to be discussed include, "What does it mean to eat a variety of foods?" and "How does normal eating include higher fat and calorie foods?" and "What are my beliefs about food?". Participants will be encouraged to think about their own beliefs and questions around food and share these thoughts and questions in the session and in an on-going way afterwards. Incorporting principles of mindful eating, both our own and that of clients, into our work will be presented. If successful, participants will be pushed to think about their own thoughts and beliefs and challenged to be able to understand how their beliefs impact their formulation of an eating philosophy(ies) conducive to recovery from an eating disorder across a wide range of clients and situations.
Primary Presenter:
Jillian K. Croll, PhD, RD, LD, MPH
Dr. Croll is the Director, Education, Research and Program Development for the Emily Program in Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota. She is the author of book chapters and articles addressing nutritional treatment of eating disorders, body image, and disordered eating and she regularly speaks regionally, nationally, and internationally on numerous eating disorder related topics. Dr. Croll is a past Board Member for the Academy for Eating Disorders and is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the SCAN dietetic practice group. She also holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota.
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