WCSPP ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Understanding and Treating Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating
Continental Breakfast and Check-In (8:30 – 9:00 am)
Morning Program (9:00 am – 12:00 pm): Judith Brisman, Ph.D., CEDS, will describe how the effective treatment of eating disorders often requires a mix of behavioral intervention within a psychoanalytic framework where the “disowned” part of the patient becomes known. A comprehensive definition of various eating disorders, risk factors, treatment issues, the role of the family and transferential/countertransferential considerations will be addressed.
Theresa Kinsella, MS, RD, will describe the essential differences between disordered eating and healthy diet lifestyles, including the clinical strategies useful in responding to our “diet culture.” The assessment and treatment of symptomatic eating behaviors, how to help clients develop a healthy relationship with food, and how to know when a referral to an eating disorder specialist is needed will be presented. Continue reading WCSPP ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Understanding and Treating Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating
on October 23, 2018.
