Background: Effective Treatment Modalities for clients with eating disorders include both evidence-based methods which have been used over the years, and cutting edge modalities. The full range of therapy modalities will be discussed and their specific use in treating eating disorder patients will be examined.
Outline
- Team Approach
- Medical Stability
- Medication Management
- Psychotherapy
- Individual
- Group
- Family
- Support Groups
- Nutritional Rehabilitation
- Levels of Care
- Out-Patient Treatment
- Intensive Out-Patient Treatment
- Day Treatment/Partial Hospitalization
- Residential
- In-Patient Hospitalization
- Treatment Modalities
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experiential Therapies
- Psychodrama
- Body Image Work
- Equine Therapy
- Expressive Therapies
- Art
- Movement
- Drama
- Meditation
- Family-Based Treatment
- Maudsley Method
This introductory course on Treatment Modalities for eating disordered patients will address the most effective treatment methods for clinicians new to the profession, or for those wanting to learn more. This course will address eating disorder symptoms and the various methods of treatment designed to ameliorate these issues. Treatment techniques will be discussed didactically with emphasis on the tools and skills needed to implement the techniques within their own practices.
Dr. Lob holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, as well as a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS). She currently sits on the IAEDP Certification Review Committee for Eating Disorder Professionals and is an intensively trained Dialectical Behavior Therapist.
