Family Focused IOP for Adolescents with Eating Disorders

Solomon, Mindy

Friday, March 23, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Yellow Topaz (The Charleston Marriott)

This workshop introduces Family-Focused IOP for adolescents, developed at Children’s Hospital Colorado, for families transitioning between levels of care. This model incorporates multi-family skill-training, experiential process and exposure with response prevention, as well as peer support groups empowering families to manage the illness. Preliminary outcomes suggest high feasibility and efficacy.

Discussion of treatment options for children/adolescents with eating disorders
1. Residential
2. Individual Outpatient
3. Family based treatment
Provide overview of family-focused treatment as applied to a hospital setting
1. Discuss different levels of care
2. Discuss IOP as the bridge between levels of care
Introduction to Family-Focused ED-IOP
1. Discuss overall program goals and structure
2. Provide overview of types of group therapy
3. Appropriate referrals
Preliminary Outcome data
1. Feasibility data
2. Effectiveness data
Experiential Group Process Demonstration
Discussion/questions

This workshop introduces Family-Focused IOP for adolescents, developed at Children’s Hospital Colorado, for families transitioning between levels of care. The workshop will provide attendees an overview of different treatment options currently available for treatment of adolescents with eating disorders and an explanation of family-focused treatment. The primary focus of the workshop will be to introduce an innovative integration of family-focused treatment into an intensive outpatient program (ED-IOP). ED-IOP incorporates multi-family group for skill-training, experiential process and exposure with response prevention, as well as peer support groups. The emphasis of the ED-IOP program is to provide the necessary bridge between higher and lower levels of care, ultimately geared at empowering adolescents and their families to manage the illness at home. A preview into preliminary outcomes, which suggest high feasibility and efficacy of this program, will be explored. This workshop will include an experiential demonstration of a multi-family group and provide attendees a chance to process their experience and engage in an interactive discussion with presenters.

Primary Presenter:

Mindy Solomon, PhD

Dr. Solomon is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado. She has specialized in child/adolescent and family treatment for 12 years and is currently the clinical psychologist for the Eating Disorders Program at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Professional affiliations include Academy of Eating Disorders, National Eating Disorders Association, International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals and American Psychological Association. Dr. Solomon has expertise in program development, multi-family group treatment, family-focused therapy for eating disorders, body image, motivation enhancement and cognitive-behavioral interventions. Research includes family correlates and outcomes in eating disorder treatment. Dr. Solomon trains and supervises students and oversees milieu programming.

Co-Presenter:

Kelly Bhatnagar, PhD

Dr. Bhatnagar currently works in the Eating Disorder Program at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She has been working in the field of eating disorders for over 6 years, specializing in child/adolescent and family treatment. She recently completed a clinical and research postdoctoral fellowship at Children’s Hospital Colorado Eating Disorder Program. Professional affiliations include Academy of Eating Disorders, American Psychological Association, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and Colorado Psychological Association. Dr. Bhatnagar has extensive experience in program development, cognitive-behavioral therapy, body image treatment and family-focused therapy. Research interests include program development, treatment outcome and family correlates in eating disorder treatment.

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