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:
◦Recognize the importance of collaboration and coordination among members of a treatment team
◦Identify appropriate therapeutic assessment tools and therapeutic modalities specific to Eating Disorders
◦Identify appropriate levels of care
◦Identify numerous therapeutic modalities used in the treatment of eating disorders and be familiar with what research suggests is the most appropriate modality based on diagnosis and treatment setting, as well as cultural and ethical considerations.
◦Recognize common co-morbidities that influence treatment including suicide risk management
- 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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Jessica Baker, PhD, CEDS-S
Jessica Baker, MS, PhD, CEDS is a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist and Supervisor, currently in private practice in Milton, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. Dr. Baker has worked in the field for over 20 years. She began working with this population during her graduate training at the University of Georgia, the University and Florida, and Emory University. She continued this work in her professional career at the Metro Atlanta Recovery Residences, Women’s Center (MARR). Recognizing the need for more intense programming for dual diagnosis patients, Dr. Baker created a disordered eating program at MARR.
