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.
Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. identify numerous therapeutic modalities used in the treatment of eating disorders. 2. recognize common co-morbidities that influence treatment 3. discuss the development and treatment of eating disorders within special populations 4. identify and address common ethical considerations for treatment teams when working with special population 5. explain the theory behind utilizing the presented treatment methods and demonstrate ways in which the presented methods are used with clients.
- Introduction and Overview
- Treatment Teams
- Specialized Care/Scope of Competence
- Coordination and Collaboration
- Assessment
- Assessment Overview
- Assess Specific to ED
- Assessment Tools Common to ED
- Suicide Screening and Safety
- Diagnosis
- Treatment Planning: Level of Care
- Overview
- APA Guidelines
- Treatment Setting Pyramid
- Safety: Medial, Nutritional and Psychiatric
- Considerations and Guidelines for Each Diagnosis
- Higher Levels of Care
- Risk Management
- The Chronically Ill Paradigm
- Treatment Planning: Case Conceptualization
- Case Conceptualization and Considerations
- Case Study
- Treatment Planning: Goals, Objectives, Case Study
- Motivational Approaches
- Evidence Based Treatments
- Evidence Based Therapies Chart
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT and CBT-E)
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Family Based Therapy
- Interpersonal Therapy
- Newer and Emerging Therapies
- Expressive Therapies
- Other Important Treatment
- Treatment Planning: Interventions, Target dates
- Treatment of Marginalized Populations
- Special Topics in Eating Disorder Treatment
- Concluding Thoughts
A Founder and Adviser of the National Eating Disorders Association and Founding Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, Maine is author of: Pursuing Perfection: Eating Disorders, Body Myths, and Women at Midlife and Beyond; Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the Research- Practice Gap; Effective Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Eating Disorders; The Body Myth; Father Hunger; and Body Wars. The recipient of The Lori Irving Award for Excellence in Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention, and of the NEDA Lifetime Achievement Award, and 2016 Honoree of the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame, she practices in West Hartford, CT.
Beth Hartman McGilley, PhD, FAED, CEDS, Associate Professor, UKSM-W, is a psychologist in private practice, specializing in the treatment of eating disorders, body image, athletes, trauma, and grief. She has practiced for over 30 years, writing, lecturing, supervising, directing an inpatient eating disorders program and providing individual, family and group therapy. She co-edited Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the Science-Practice Gap, and has published in academic journals and the popular media, as well as contributing chapters to several books. She is an emeritus editor for Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, and is working on her second book, a tribute to the patients she’s served over the course of her career.
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Craig Johnson, PhD, FAED, CEDS
Dr. Johnson is entering his 39th year of treatment and research in the field of eating disorders. He currently serves as Chief Science Officer at Eating Recovery Center and is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He formerly held faculty appointments at the University of Chicago and Northwestern Medical Schools and was Founder and Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Laureate Psychiatric Hospital. He was Founding Editor of the International Journal of Eating Disorders and Founder of the Academy of Eating Disorders. He was also Co-Founder and Past President of the National Eating Disorders Association. Dr Johnson has authored over 90 scientific articles and 3 books.
