Clinical Teaching Day Session - Expanding intersectional approaches to include body size: Practical ways to cultivate size inclusivity in the treatment of eating disorders
Wed, June 09
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Abstract:
Weight discrimination and weight stigma are associated with a plethora of negative health outcomes and function as barriers to eating disorder treatment. Eating disorder professionals may unknowingly communicate weight stigmatizing attitudes, which has a negative impact on the care they provide. Historically, most weight stigma reduction research and efforts have focused primarily on targeting weight stigma experienced by white, cisgender, heterosexual women, despite research and practice consistently suggesting that weight stigma is experienced differently among other populations. In this session, the interdisciplinary group of presenters will first systematically review existing literature about weight stigma in eating disorder treatment with an emphasis on intersectional considerations. The presenters will identify and discuss how body size intersects with other identities (including race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity) to create unique modes of privilege and discrimination. The presenters will discuss how this impacts the care provided to diverse individuals in the eating disorders field. Next, the presenters will discuss thin privilege and how it combines with other forms of privilege to affect treatment dynamics. Attendees will be asked to complete a presenter-developed Thin Privilege Inventory and reflect on their responses to facilitate an increased awareness of their own size privilege and associated biases. Then, attendees will be provided with practical ways for therapists, dieticians, and other treatment providers to increase size and other inclusivity in the eating disorders treatment field. Specific examples of how evidence-based treatments have been adapted in the literature and in practice to cultivate size and other inclusivity will be provided with an emphasis on research-practice integration.
Learning Objective 1:
Following the training, participants will be able to describe how body size intersects with other identities (including race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity) to create unique modes of privilege and discrimination and understand how this impacts eating disorder treatment.
Learning Objective 2:
Following the training, participants will be able to demonstrate increased an awareness of their own size privilege and how it impacts eating disorder treatment dynamics.
Learning Objective 3:
Following the training, participants will be able to identify and implement at least 4 evidence-based, specific, and practical ways to increase size and other inclusivity in their day to day clinical practice.
Presenters:
Ms. Erin Chatten, M.S., M.A., L.P.C.
Midwestern University
Arlington Heights, IL, United States
Dr. Catharine Michele Devlin, PsyD, CEDS
Birch Tree Psychotherapy
South Barrington, IL, United States
Ms. Alyson Haebig, M.S., RDN, LDN
Nourishment Works PC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Dr. Andrea Seefeldt, PsyD
Chicago Center for Evidence Based Treatment
Chicago, Illinois, United States