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Innovative Use of Technology & Social Media

Mariarca Ascione, Master's Degree

Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Co-Authors: Bruno Porras-Garcia, Franck Alexandre Meschberger-Annweiler, Helena Miquel-Nabau, Marta Ferrer-Garcia, José Gutiérrez-Maldonado

The role of a negative attitude toward technology in the effectiveness of an attentional bias modification task based on virtual reality and eye-tracking.

Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to know the role of attitude towards technologies in the anxiety felt during an attentional bias modification task based on Virtual Reality and Eye-Tracking technology in a non-clinical sample.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to know how technology-based interventions may be used to assess and modify attentional bias in anorexia nervosa.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to understand the opportunities that Virtual Reality and Eye-Tracking technology offer to improve anorexia nervosa current treatments.

 

Anna Ciao, PhD

Western Washington University

Co-Authors: Ally Duvall, Paige Toop, Kendall Lawley, Summer Pascual, Gabbrielle Hodges, Indira Lalgee

Incorporating principles of user-centered design to create an inclusive, online dissonance-based body image program for college students: The EVERYbody Project-Connect

Learning Objectives:

1. ​Identify the user-centered design principles that facilitate the development of an online, inclusive body image program for college students.
2. Describe a brief, online, universal, dissonance-based body image intervention that directly addresses diversity.
3. Evaluate different avenues for delivering diversity-focused eating disorder risk factor reduction programs to college students.

 

Laura D'Adamo

Washington University in St. Louis

Co-Authors: Marie-Laure Firebaugh, Zafra Cooper, Denise Wilfley, Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft

User-Centered Development and Usability of a Novel Online Platform for the Dissemination and Implementation of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Guided Self-Help for Eating Disorders

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss how online platforms can provide more scalable methods of training clinicians in evidence-based treatments for EDs and how cognitive-behavioral therapy guided self-help is an optimal treatment for technology-supported implementation.
2. Develop a novel online platform to provide cognitive-behavioral therapy guided self-help for patients with EDs and training for clinicians. 
3. Conduct initial usability testing of the online platform with clinicians and patients and highlight results and qualitative feedback.

 

Ellen E. Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD, FAED

Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Effectiveness of a Chatbot for Eating Disorders Prevention: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the challenges associated with dissemination of human-supported eating disorders preventions programs.
2. Provide overview of the development of a chatbot for eating disorders prevention, based on an established, traditional web-based program.
3. Highlight and discuss results of a research study examining effectiveness of the chatbot vs waitlist control.

 

Jalisa Jackson, B. A.

Duke University

Scrolling to Savor: From Social Comparison to Social Savoring on Social Media

Learning Objectives:

1. Define and explain the nature of upward social comparisons.
2. Practice the skill of social savoring, the process of experiencing joy for others when they accomplish or experience something enviable.
3. Interrogate the context of their own social media use and how to improve their experience for their mental well-being.

 

Meredith Kells, PhD

University of Chicago

Thank you for coming to my tEDTok: The experience of treatment for eating disorders as told on TikTok

Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to identify TikTok as a prominent outlet for individuals with eating disorders.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to describe themes of eating disorder treatment seen in videos posted on TikTok.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to describe how features of TikTok content may influence users viewing media.

 

Katherine Laveway, MS

Northeastern University

#BodyPositive: A Qualitative Study Exploring Young People’s Responses to Body Positive Social Media Content

Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to describe the body positive movement.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to critique different forms of body positive content in terms of their helpfulness for body image.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to identify potential mechanisms by which body positive content may promote positive body image.

 

Emma Louise, BA (Oxon), MRes (Bath)

University of Oxford, University of Bath

Scaling up training in a leading psychological treatment for eating disorders: The online training of therapists in CBT-E

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify major barriers to training therapists to deliver psychological treatments.
2. Understand how internet-based training can help overcome these barriers.
3. Know the results of a three-year audit of uptake and usefulness of an internet-based training programme for therapists.

 

Emily Matheson, PhD

Centre for Appearance Research

Improving body image at scale among Brazilian adolescents: A randomised controlled trial evaluation of a chatbot intervention

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the nature and purpose of micro-interventions in the prevention of body image concerns in children and adolescents.
2. Identify how chatbot technology can be used as a medium for developing and disseminating micro-interventions.
3. Identify the challenges associated with developing, implementing and assessing micro-interventions in children and adolescent samples. 

 

Franck Alexandre Meschberger-Annweiler, Master’s Degree

Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Using an attentional bias modification task through Virtual Reality to reduce fear of gaining weight and body anxiety.

Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to know how Virtual Reality and Eye-Tracking technology may be used to assess and modify attentional bias in anorexia nervosa therapies.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to know how Virtual Reality and Eye-Tracking technology may be used to reduce fear of gaining weight and body anxiety for women with high body dissatisfaction and/or anorexia nervosa.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to understand and explain the opportunities that Virtual Reality may offer to improve anorexia nervosa current treatments. 

 

Pieter Rohrbach, MS, P.J.

GGZ Rivierduinen Eating Disorders Ursula

Results of a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of an internet-based intervention and expert-patient support for eating disorders

Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to: understand the treatment gap that exists for eating disorders.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to: understand how innovative technologies can help to reach underserved individuals with eating problems.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to: get to know the Featback intervention, inspiring researchers and clinicians to investigate and use the potential benefits of such innovative interventions.

 

Dr. Qinxin Shi

University of Utah

Building a Measurement Model to Study Intensively Measured Emotion in Eating Disorders Through Self-Help Apps

Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to study how to study categorical emotion data collected through self-help apps for patients with eating disorder behaviors and further advance the just-in-time intervention.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to study how to apply a circumplex model of emotion on the categorical emotion data collected through self-app.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to study how we evaluated the measurement model to make sure the model is invariant across time, gender, ethnicity, age, and diagnostic conditions.

 

Sandra Schlegl

Efficacy of a therapist-guided smartphone-based aftercare for inpatients with severe anorexia nervosa: a randomized controlled trial

Learning Objectives:

1. To describe the potential utility of smartphone-based platforms to provide step-down care after inpatient eating disorder treatment.
2. To assess patient acceptability of a smartphone-based aftercare intervention following inpatient eating disorder treatment.
3. To evaluate the efficacy of a smartphone-based aftercare intervention following inpatient treatment.

ED & Covid

Julian Baudinet, DClinPsych

Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED)

A mixed method investigation of young person, parent, and clinician experience of online eating disorder treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic

Learning Objectives:

1. Get a sense of young person, parent and clinician experience of online treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. Understand perceived benefits and barriers to this way of working from each perspective.
3. Consider implications for future online working in child and adolescent eating disorder services.

 

Dawn Branley-Bell, Dr., MRF Research Fellow

Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne

The Impact of the Rapid Transition to Remote Treatment for Eating Disorders during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Patients and Service Providers

Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to: Identify current challenges and barriers to effective remote service provision for eating disorders.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to: Identify challenges to be addressed in the design and development of future remote healthcare services and technologies.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to: Explain how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted upon support circles for individuals with eating disorders.

 

Jennifer Couturier, MD, FRCPC, FAED

McMaster University

Adapting and Adopting Family-Based Treatment to Virtual Care: Preliminary Qualitative Family Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract:

During the COVID-19 pandemic, outpatient eating disorder (ED) care, including family-based treatment (FBT), rapidly changed from in-person to virtual delivery. It is imperative that the implementation of virtual care in ED programs be studied to ensure fidelity to treatment is maintained and patient outcomes are sustained. This study examined the initial implementation of virtual FBT (vFBT) including patient outcomes and familial experiences, with goals of further developing clinical capacity for virtual care and improving access to evidence-based treatment for children with EDs in the COVID-19 context and beyond. Using a multi-site mixed method pre/post design, we investigated the impact of our implementation approach in four pediatric ED programs in Ontario, Canada. We developed implementation teams (consisting of therapists, program administrators, and clinicians) at each site, provided remote training on vFBT, and offered therapists clinical consultation for study patients. Therapists submitted videorecordings of their first four vFBT sessions for fidelity rating. Therapists also recorded patient outcomes including weight gain and ED symptoms (binge/purge frequency) after each of the first four sessions. Families completed a semi-structured interview after four sessions to discuss their experiences with vFBT. A qualitative description design and directed content analysis approach were used to analyze the interviews with each family. The final study sample was comprised of five families including five patients with anorexia nervosa, ten parents, and six siblings. Qualitative data revealed four major themes among families: pros of vFBT, cons of vFBT, vFBT content effectiveness, and suggestions for intervention improvement. Subthemes included cost-effectiveness and convenience (pros of vFBT), technical difficulties and trouble building rapport with the therapist (cons of vFBT), improved ED knowledge and mindset (vFBT content effectiveness), and a combination of in-person and virtual sessions (suggestions for intervention improvement). Overall, families believed that vFBT was feasible in terms of achieving weight gain and reductions in ED symptoms, however, most families recommended a hybrid model of in-person and virtually delivered FBT treatment in the future.

Learning Objectives:

1. To describe the adaptations involved when delivering Family-Based Treatment virtually.
2. To understand familial experiences with virtual Family-Based Treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on qualitative interview data.
3. To develop recommendations for future study models of Family-Based Treatment, including a hybrid model of in-person and virtually delivered sessions based on recommendations by families. 

 

Daniel Devoe, PhD

Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on eating disorders.
2. Identify what signs and symptoms have changed for those with eating disorders.
3. Identify themes in the qualitative literature.

 

Angela Han, Dr., MD, FRCPC

The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tertiary care hospitalizations in Canadian children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa

 Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the increase in pediatric hospitalizations among children and adolescents (7-to 18-years-old), with anorexia nervosa (AN) during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the prior six years in two Canadian pediatric tertiary care eating disorders programs.
2. Understand the impact of COVID-19 on severity of illness at presentation during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic among children and adolescents with AN from two Canadian pediatric tertiary care eating disorders programs.
3. Recognize the strengths and limitations/advantages and disadvantages using health administrative data when focusing on pediatric hospitalizations among children and adolescents with AN during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Destiny A. Jackson

Emory University, Department of Sociology

Discrimination and County-Level COVID-19 Mortality Partially Explain Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Use of Harmful “Wellness” Dietary Supplements

 Learning Objectives:

1.  Identify the health risks associated with over-the-counter “wellness” supplement use.
2. Discuss the relationship between social and spatial predictors (e.g., discrimination and county-level COVID-19 mortality) and use of over-the-counter “wellness” supplements across racial groups during the COVID-19 pandemic.
3. Explain the links among use of over-the-counter “wellness” supplements, eating disorders, and racial health inequities.

 

Jesy Kenny, Masters

The University of Melbourne

Virtual Interactions: Videoconferencing Predicting Reduced Body Dissatisfaction an Ecological Momentary Assessment Study

 Learning Objectives:

1. To understand the nature of ecological momentary assessment studies, as they relate to the field of eating disorders.
2. To gauge an understanding of how video conferencing may elicit state changes in body image perceptions; body dissatisfaction.  
3. To encourage questions around the ways in which continued use of videoconferencing may encourage adaptive ways of engaging, in non-clinical populations. To inspire future research, into if and why, habituation to the interface, can occur.

 

Shilei Li

Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

De novo eating disorder diagnoses following a COVID-19 infection: Results from a descriptive retrospective case review using electronic health records from six large hospitals in New England

 Learning Objectives:

1. Attendees will learn about the metabolic and neuropsychiatric impacts of SARS-Cov-2 infection.
2. Attendees will review clinical case studies of individuals who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection and developed a de novo eating disorder.
3. Lastly, attendees will learn about the importance of eating disorder screening following SARS-CoV-2 infections.

 

Katie Loth, PhD, MPH, RD, LD

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

COVID-19 pandemic shifts in food-related parenting practices within an ethnically/racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of families of preschool-aged children

Abstract:

This study aimed to evaluate the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on food-related parenting practices used by parents of young children.  Ecological momentary assessment was used to evaluate parents’ use of coercive, indulgent, structured, and autonomy supportive food parenting practices before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among a diverse racial/ethnic sample (n=72) of parents of preschool-aged children.  The impact of parent and child mood/behavior on use of specific food parenting practices was also evaluated during both time periods. Results revealed that most parents of preschoolers use a variety of food parenting practices, including coercive control, indulgence, structure, and autonomy support practices.  The use of structured and autonomy supportive practices, however, decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, the types of practices used by parents were situationally associated with the mood of the parent as well as child mood.  Parent negative mood during COVID-19 was associated with higher levels of coercive control and indulgence and lower levels of structure, whereas child positive child mood was associated with greater use of autonomy supportive practices.  These findings suggest that effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on family dynamics around feeding young children include shifts away from theoretically supportive approaches to parenting and highlight the roles of parent and child mood/behavior as potentially important momentary influences on food parenting during this time. Public health practitioners and clinicians working with parents of young children during COVID-19 should consider the potential impact of parental mood and stress, as well as child mood and behaviors. Additional research is needed to better understand how to best help parents maintain supportive feeding practices in the face of challenging situations. 

Learning Objectives:

1. To describe a broad range of food-related parenting practices used by parents of preschoolers prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. To describe changes in parents’ approach to feeding during the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared to prior to the COVID-19 pandemic; to identify the role that parent mood, stress and child behavior played in observed differences.
3. To draw comparisons between observed differences in feeding approach during the COVID-19 pandemic and other challenging situations faced by parents day-to-day; identify opportunities for intervention to promote the use of supportive feeding practices.   

Kathryn Trottier, Dr., PhD

University Health Network; University of Toronto

Re-envisioning Day Hospital Treatment for Eating Disorders in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development and Evaluation of an Intensive Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy Virtual Program

 Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the history of day hospital treatment for eating disorders and key challenges in its delivery.
2. Describe an intensive outpatient program based on CBT-E.
3. Describe the outcomes of a CBT-E based intensive outpatient program in comparison to day hospital treatment.

Public Health & Open Science

Mireille Almeida, MD, MSc

Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Knowledge of Brazilian psychiatrists about eating disorders

Learning Objectives:

1. Find out the current situation regarding Brazilian psychiatrists´ knowledge about eating disorders.
2. Identify explanatory variables that influence full test scores.
3. Realize Brazilian psychiatrists´ opinion about their own ED knowledge and its consequences.

 

Amelia Austin, MSc

Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College London, UK

The International Consortium of Health Outcome Measurement: Eating Disorders Standard Set

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the methodology used to create an ICHOM standard Set.
2. Describe the Eating Disorders Standard Set (domains and outcomes).
3. Know where to access the Standard Set for later implementation.

Blair Burnette, PhD

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

A systematic review of sociodemographic reporting and representation in eating disorder treatment randomized controlled trials in the United States from 1985-2020

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize the concerns with inadequate representation and reporting in ED treatment trials.
2. Summarize recent reporting and representation in ED treatment trials in the US over the last decade.
3. Implement best practice approaches to assessing socio demographic data in future trials.

 

Blair Burnette, PhD

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Is intuitive eating a privileged approach? Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between food insecurity and intuitive eating

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe why food insecurity could impact intuitive eating based on theory.
2. Summarize cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between food insecurity and intuitive eating.
3. Identify future directions to help reduce barriers to intuitive eating.

 

Michal Cohen

School of Social Work, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Science, University of Haifa, Israel

The Impact of Israel’s “Models’ Law” on Young Women

Learning Objectives:

1. To examine the participants’ familiarity with the models’ law, their perceptions of the law and its impact, and  their views on the role of images and messages transmitted to the public through the media.
2. To examine the rates of DEP and the impact of the models’ law on women aged 18-24, as compared with  women aged 25-35.
3. To examine the relationships between the level of exposure to the law and its impact and the levels of DEP  and disturbed body image among women aged 18-24, as compared with those aged 25-35.

 

Jennifer Couturier, MD, FRCPC, FAED

McMaster University

Examining Health Care Utilization in Individuals Diagnosed with an Eating Disorder in Childhood and/or Adolescence: A Health Administrative Database Study

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe health care utilization patterns prior to diagnosis in an eating disorder cohort diagnosed in childhood (under age 18 years) compared to a general population cohort, diabetes cohort and mood disorder cohort matched on age and sex.
2. Compare the service patterns that are utilized following diagnosis in an eating disorder cohort diagnosed in childhood (under age 18 years) compared to a general population cohort, diabetes cohort and mood disorder cohort matched on age and sex.
3. Discuss health care system improvements that might be needed based on this data.

 

Vivienne Hazzard, PhD, MPH, RD

University of Minnesota

Short-Term Fluctuations in Severity of Food Insecurity Predict Subsequent Binge Eating Symptoms Among Food-Insecure Young Adults Using Food Assistance Programs

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how the link between food insecurity and binge eating may differ across the between-person and within-person levels.
2. Recognize how the link between food insecurity and binge eating differs by use of food assistance programs.
3. Reflect on the practical implications of these results.

Mary Lee, PhD

The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Economic Cost of Implementing Legislation Restricting Sales of Over-the-Counter Diet Pills and Muscle-Building Supplements to Children in Massachusetts

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify health and mental health risks of use of over-the-counter diet pills and muscle-building dietary supplements by children.
2. Explain measures US state lawmakers are considering to protect children from dangerous over-the-counter diet pills and muscle-building supplements.
3. Describe methodological considerations in estimating costs to state governments to implement ban on sale of dangerous consumer products to children.

 

Sarah Maguire, BSc(Hons), MA, DCP, PhD

InsideOut Institute, Central Clinical School, University of Sydney

Developing the Australian Eating Disorder Research & Translation Strategy 2021-2031

 Learning Objectives:

1. To understand the co-design process of Australia's first national Eating Disorders Research & Translation Strategy.
2. To present the Strategy's principles, strategic priorities, recommendations and actions.
3. To identify opportunities that arise from the development of research and translation public policy documents; and the potential impacts on national and international eating disorder research & translation activities.

Peta Marks, RN, BN, MPH, MCFT

InsideOut Institute, University of Sydney, Australia

Using a national co-designed process to establish the TOP 10 research priorities for eating disorders.

 Learning Objectives:

1. To understand the James Lind Alliance co-design methodology used to establish Australia's eating disorder research & translation priorities. 
2. To consider Australia's ‘Top 10’ research and translation priorities for research and its translation, within the context of the international eating disorders research agenda.
3. To identify how Australia’s Top 10 priorities can contribute and respond to identified knowledge gaps within eating disorder research.

Funmbi Okoya

Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Nations Worldwide Allow Companies to Sell Harmful Weight-Loss Supplements to Children: Preliminary Findings from the Weight-Loss Supplements Global Policy Scan

 Learning Objectives:

1. Demonstrate knowledge on the harm caused by poor regulation of weight-loss supplements.
2. Identify the different ways weight-loss supplements are regulated across countries and regions.
3. Evaluate existing regulatory frameworks to identify key improvement areas that can ensure the safety of populations.

 

Amanda Raffoul, PhD

Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston

Policy recommendations for the prevention of disordered weight control behaviors: Findings from a scoping review

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify key policy domains for the prevention of disordered weight control behaviors among populations.
2. Describe evidence-informed policy recommendations for policies aiming to prevent disordered weight control behaviors across a variety of settings.
3. Assess gaps in the evidence on prevention policies and distinguish areas of future research in disordered weight control behavior prevention.

 

Katie Richards, BSc MSc

King's College London

A Delphi study to explore clinician and lived experience perspectives on Setting Priorities in Eating Disorder Services (SPEED)

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the process of conducting a Delphi study.
2. Knowledge of the factors that were deemed important for priority setting in clinician and lived experience panels.
3. An understanding of the differences between clinicians and individuals with a lived experience in what they deem important for priority setting.

 

Mima Simic, PhD

Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED)

Seven-year follow-up of young people who received specialist child and adolescent eating disorder treatment in a public health setting

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand longer term eating disorder outcomes of children and adolescents who had evidence-based treatment in a specialist eating disorder service in a public mental health setting.
2. Learn about general and social functioning at follow-up from children and adolescent treated for an eating disorder in a specialist eating disorder service.
3. Have an overview of the long-term outcomes for those who had outpatient treatment compared to those whose treatment was intensified with either day- or inpatient care for their eating disorder in childhood and adolescence.

 

Karin Waldher, PhD

Ferdinand Porsche FernFH

Internet-based prevention of eating disorders: what do we know about the public health impact?

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the importance of public health impact.
2. Learn what we know on the public health impact of online prevention for eating disorders.
3. Understand the importance of reporting external validity indicators.

Treatment of ED in Children & Adolescents

Claire Aarnio-Peterson, Ph.D.

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Emotion coaching as an augmentation to family-based treatment for adolescents with anorexia nervosa: Preliminary data

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn about emotion coaching as an adjunct to FBT.
2. How emotion coaching can facilitate FBT.
3. Outcomes of augmenting FBT with emotion coaching.

Andrea Barrios Hernandez

Perfect imperfecta

Family support in assertive treatment improves cohesion and expressed emotion in parents of adolescents with eating disorders

Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to the importance of family treatment in eating disorders to improve the feeling of togetherness between family members.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to the benefits of developing assertive communication to reduce the emotion expressed in families of patients with eating disorders.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to the benefits of developing assertive communication to help reduce the symptoms related to eating disorders.

Nicole Della Longa, PhD

Evidence Based Treatment Centers of Seattle

Comparative Clinical Outcomes for Adolescents with Atypical Anorexia Nervosa or Anorexia Nervosa

 Learning Objectives:

1. Summarize the literature comparing treatment objectives and outcomes among patients with AN and atypical AN.
2. Identify distinctions in outcomes between patients with AN and atypical AN with regard to eating disorder symptomatology, eating disorder-related impairment, anxiety/depressive symptoms, and menstrual irregularities.
3. Describe which patients best benefit from returning to their premorbid BMI percentile.

Daniel Devoe, PhD

Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary

Family Therapy for Adolescents with Bulimia Nervosa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

 Learning Objectives:

1. Summarize the peer reviewed literature on family therapy in BN.
2. Identify the impact of family therapy in youth with BN for various outcomes.
3. Understand the need for future trials and agreement on treatment outcomes.

Gina Dimitropoulos, MSW, PhD, RSW

Faculty of Social Work, Department of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of Calgary

Examining Clinicians' Perspectives on Working with Diverse Families in Family Based Treatment (FBT)

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following this presentation, participants will have gained critical insight into FBT service delivery and the unique treatment needs of diverse families.
2. Opportunities for improving current FBT treatment planning will be explored.
3. Opportunities for improving clinician trainings will be explored.

Sasha Gorrell, PhD

University of California, San Francisco

Parent and youth report: Do differing perceptions of baseline fear of weight gain impact early response to family-based treatment for anorexia nervosa?

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify fear of weight gain as a characteristic of restrictive eating disorders.
2. Consider differences between parent and adolescent patient report of symptoms.
3. Describe the impact of fear of weight gain on early response to family-based treatment for anorexia nervosa.

 

Jacqueline Patmore, MA

Columbia University

The Role of Alliance in a Peer Mentorship Program for Individuals with Eating Disorders

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to identify how peer mentorship could be considered a helpful augment to ED treatment.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to understand the patient outcomes most impacted by the role of alliance in peer-centered interventions.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to understand the role of alliance in increasing patient engagement in ED interventions.

Danika Quesnel, MSc.

Western University

Safe Exercise Training Improves Clinician Knowledge and Self-Efficacy for Managing Dysfunctional Exercise in Eating Disorders

 Learning Objectives:

1. Gain perspective of clinician attitudes toward exercise in eating disorder treatment.
2. Acquire an understanding of the core tenants of a novel training workshop for managing dysfunctional exercise in eating disorder treatment.
3. Learn the impact of a training workshop about managing dysfunctional exercise on clinician knowledge and self-efficacy.

Dori Steinberg, PhD, MS, RD

Equip Health

Comparison of Different Approaches for Setting Target Weight Goals for Children and Adolescents in Eating Disorder Treatment

 Learning Objectives:

1. Describe why target weights are important for eating disorder recovery and which approaches are used to set target weights for patients with a weight restoration goal.
2. Summarize the differences in target weights from a standardized approach using median BMI and an individualized approach using growth chart trajectories.
3. Identify individuals for which the individualized growth chart target weight approach may be more beneficial.

Treatment of ED in Adults

Linda Booij, PhD

Concordia University/ CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital

The Use of Telehealth Services in an Outpatient Clinic of a Specialized Eating Disorder Program: Comparing Treatment Effectiveness and Patient Satisfaction to In-Person Care

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the characteristics of an outpatient segment of a sequential (stepped-care) model of time-limited care in a specialized eating disorder program when offered through telehealth and in-person.
2. Be familiar with the effectiveness of outpatient eating-disorder treatment via telehealth vs. in-person services.
3. Understand the methodological considerations when testing the noninferiority of telehealth services relative to in-person treatment.

Emily Choquette, PhD

Laureate Institute for Brain Research

Longitudinal Impact of Floatation Therapy on Body Image Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating Symptoms in Anorexia Nervosa

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how floatation therapy modulates the nervous system’s processing of sensory signals.
2. Discuss the longitudinal impact of floatation therapy on specific symptoms of eating disorders.
3. Consider how floatation therapy may be used to augment treatment for eating disorders.

Rosiel Elwyn, Mx, MProfPsych, BSocSci (Hons)

USC Thompson Institute

Theory for a novel treatment for adult AN: Ketamine, zinc and peer support. Potential beneficial interactions with BDNF, leptin and the gut microbiome

 Learning Objectives:

1. Explore current medication treatments in anorexia nervosa, and the neurobiological theory behind the mechanisms for ketamine and zinc as combined novel treatment for treating adult anorexia.
2. Explore the role of the gut microbiome in anorexia nervosa, and how it influences eating behaviour, medication response, energy, homeostasis, and other functions connected to the eating disorder course.
3. Explore the role of peer support in eating disorder treatment, and how it can support healing and recovery for anorexia nervosa.

Phillipa Hay, Professor, MD FAED

Western Sydney University

Early Change in Quality of Life in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understanding of quality of life impacts as reported by people with anorexia nervosa.
2. Appreciation of complexity of quality of life change as a predictor of outcomes.
3. Appreciation of clinical utility of quality of life assessment in people with anorexia nervosa.

Anna Karam, PhD

Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

A More Scalable Method of Assessing Clinician Treatment Fidelity in Training Therapists in an Evidence-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders: Development and Examination of a Telephone-based Patient Simulation

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the challenges associated with standard methods of clinician training, supervision, and assessment of treatment fidelity in routine clinical practice, as well as in dissemination and implementation research.
2. Provide overview of the development of a novel, technology-based telephone-based patient simulation, and highlight perks of this scalable method of allowing therapists to gain practice in a new interview and receive feedback.
3. Highlight and discuss results of research study examining how telephone-based simulation treatment fidelity scores change from pre- to post-training in interpersonal psychotherapy, and highlight implications of these findings.

Emalee Kiser, M.A.

Sam Houston State University

Understanding Adherence to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in Clinicians who Treat Eating Disorders: A Self-Determination Theory Approach

 Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the impact of clinician’s attitudes toward evidence-based practice on their use of CBT techniques in the treatment of ED clients.
2. Explain the influence of clinicians’ sense of competency and relatedness at work on their use of CBT techniques in the treatment of ED clients.
3. Identify possible areas of improvement in clinicians’ workplace that would increase use of evidence-based practices in the treatment of ED clients.

Stephanie Knatz Peck, PhD

University of California, San Diego

Pilot Study Evaluation of Psilocybin Therapy for Anorexia: Safety, Acceptability, and Initial Efficacy

 Learning Objectives:

1. Describe a treatment model of psilocybin therapy for anorexia nervosa.
2. Summarize results of treatment study on of symptoms of anorexia nervosa.
3. Understand participants' response and feedback to psilocybin treatment within the context of the study.

Danielle MacDonald, PhD., C.Psych.

University Health Network; University of Toronto

Early CBT Skills Use Predicts Binge/Purge Abstinence at End-of-Treatment: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study

 Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how EMA methodology was used to evaluate day-to-day skills use in the initial period of intensive treatment.
2. Describe the relationship between early skills use and end-of-treatment outcomes.
3. Understand the importance of encouraging early implementation of CBT skills in the initial phase of treatment.

Emily Presseller, BA

Drexel University

Self-Regulation Deficits Moderate Treatment Outcomes in an RCT Evaluating Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions as an Augmentation to CBT for Bulimia-Spectrum Eating Disorders

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the role of self-regulation deficits in the maintenance of bulimia nervosa.
2. Learn how just-in-time adaptive interventions may improve treatment outcomes for individuals with bulimia-spectrum eating disorders.
3. Discuss future research directions in understanding the efficacy of JITAIs as an augmentation to CBT for individuals with bulimia-spectrum eating disorders and deficits in self-regulation.

 

Katie Richards, BSc MSc

King's College London

Clinician perspectives of First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders in England: A qualitative study

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the attitudes of early adopters towards early intervention for eating disorders and First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders (FREED).
2. Understand key barriers and facilitators to implementing FREED amongst early adopters.
3. The application of the normalisation process theory to evaluate the embedding a new intervention into practice.

Courtney Simpson, PhD

UC San Diego

An Open Trial of Adjunctive Body Project Treatment in a Partial Hospital Program for Eating Disorders

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the need for interventions targeting body image concerns in higher levels of care for individuals with EDs.
2. Describe the acceptability of the modified BPT for individuals with severe EDs.
3. Describe the preliminary efficacy of the modified BPT for individuals with severe EDs.

Jessica Tone, BPsychSc (Hons), MPH

Eating Disorders Queensland

A psychoeducation group as a waitlist auxiliary for individuals seeking eating disorder treatment

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to understand the processes behind psychoeducational interventions and how this is applicable to eating disorder treatment.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to discuss the value of psychoeducational interventions during waitlist periods.
3. Following the training, participants will be able discuss the value of early intervention for eating disorder treatment outcomes. 

Sanne Van Doornik, MSc.

University of Groningen and Accare

The Efficacy of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders (MCP-ED) in a High Risk Group of Undergraduate Women: a Randomized Controlled Trial

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the paper presentation, participants will be more familiar with the concept of meaning in life.
2. Following the paper presentation, participants will have a better understanding of the role that meaning in life plays in the development and maintenance of eating disorders.
3. Following the paper presentation, participants will be more familiar with meaning-centered psychotherapy for individuals with eating disorders and its positive effects.

Irina Vanzhula, PhD

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Greater dietary variety is associated with lower food-related anxiety at discharge from intensive eating disorder treatment

 Learning Objectives:

1. Learn about the role of dietary variety in the maintenance and treatment of patients with restrictive eating disorders.
2. Describe how food-related anxiety and avoidance is targeted in intensive behavioral treatment.
3. Learn about ways to assess and monitor food-related anxiety in intensive treatment settings.

Body Image

Jenna Campagna, PhD

Massachusetts General Brigham Hospital

Exploring a model of indices of negative body image, body dissatisfaction, and photo manipulation among female social media users

Learning Objectives:

1. To describe how a specific dimension of social media use is associated with indices of negative body image.
2. To understand how women may be more or less susceptible to engaging in problematic online behaviors.
3. To consider how associations between indices of negative body image and photo manipulation can inform future social media use interventions.

 

Shuchen Hu

Teachers College, Columbia University

Chinese TikTok (Douyin) Challenges and Body Image Concerns: A Pilot Study

 Learning Objectives:

1. To investigate Douyin (Chinese TikTok) use and its effects on body image concerns.
2. To analyze the content of three viral challenges and investigate their impact on Douyin users.
3. To investigate the three viral challenges' possible promotion of the thin ideal and body image concerns.

Hannah Jarman, MSc

La Trobe University

Are body image assessments harmful or helpful to adolescent boys and girls: An examination of exposure to body image items

 Learning Objectives:

1. Point to evidence that body image assessments do not appear to cause harm among adolescents, which may be provided to ethical committees, schools, parents etc.
2. Relatedly, point to evidence that negatively worded body image items do not appear to cause harm among adolescents, which may be provided to ethical committees, schools, parents etc.
3. Understand some of the challenges researchers can face when conducting body image and eating disorder research among children and adolescents.

Vani Kakar

Macquarie University

Factors Influencing Perceptions of Feminine Beauty among Adolescent Girls Living in Australia, China, India, and Iran

 Learning Objectives:

1. Learn about different factors that influence perceptions of beauty in adolescent girls.
2. Learn about cross-cultural commonalities and differences in factors that most influence girls’ perceptions of beauty in diverse cultures around the world.
3. Learn the differences between various factors that may influence perception of beauty in diverse cultures.

Alice S Lowy, PhD

Boston Children's Hospital

Blended beauty: Profiles of distinct appearance ideals and associated body image and eating concerns among culturally diverse women

 Learning Objectives:

1. To examine distinct profiles of women’s beliefs about a blend of appearance ideals.
2. To discuss potential group differences in eating pathology and related factors among culturally diverse women with distinct beliefs about appearance ideals.
3. To review the utility of culturally-sensitive conceptualizations of appearance ideals and body image to inform future efforts of assessment and intervention of eating pathology for young women.

Jade Portingal, PhD Student

University of Melbourne

Do Appearance Comparisons Mediate the Effects of Thinspiration and Fitspiration on Body Image, Mood, and Disordered Eating Urges in Women’s Everyday Lives?

Learning Objectives:

1. Examine the negative impact of social media trends such as thinspiration (thinspo) and fitspiration (fitspo) on body image concerns and DE-related outcomes throughout daily life.
2. Examine whether appearance comparisons mediate the aforementioned relationships.
3. To provide novel, micro-longitudinal evidence for the aforementioned relationships.

Savannah Roberts, B.S.

University of Delaware

Disordered Eating during Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Synthesizing Three Studies to Highlight Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the role of social media in adolescents’ and young adults’ disordered eating behaviors.
2. Contrast time on social media with appearance-related social media consciousness (ASMC) as predictors of disordered eating.
3. Learn why girls and women may be particularly vulnerable to appearance-related social media consciousness (ASMC).

BED

Bri Darboh, Ph.D. & MBA Candidate

York University

Psychiatric and Cognitive Features of Binge Eating in Early Versus Late Adulthood

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will understand that eating disorders may have distinct presentations in younger and older adulthood. 
2. Following the training, participants will be able to distinguish between key psychiatric and cognitive features of binge eating in younger versus older adulthood.
3. Following the training, participants will recognize the importance of enriching our understanding of eating disorders in older adulthood.

Lauren Forrest, PhD

Penn State College of Medicine

Change in Eating-Disorder Psychopathology Network Structure in Patients with  Binge-Eating Disorder: Findings from Treatment Trial With 12-Month Follow-up

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the most central binge-eating disorder symptoms before and after eating disorder treatment.
2. Understand that eating disorder symptom interrelations change after binge-eating disorder treatment.
3. Learn how network analysis can be applied to treatment data and yield information to better understand how treatments impact symptom interrelations.

Neha Goel, MS

Virginia Commonwealth University

An Examination of the Validity of the Interpersonal Model of Binge Eating with a Racially Diverse Sample of College Students

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following this presentation, participants will gain an intimate understanding of the interpersonal model of binge eating.
2. Following this presentation, participants will learn how extant theoretical models can be tested to determine their validity and applicability for diverse racial/ethnic groups.
3. Following this presentation, participants can apply findings from the current study to their clinical work treating binge eating disorder in racially diverse college students.

Amlish Munir, MD

University of Calgary

The Prevalence of Self-Harm, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicide Attempts in Binge Eating Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

 Learning Objectives:

1. Summarize the literature regarding the prevalence of suicidal ideation, self-harm, and suicide attempts in BED.
2. Increase the awareness for screening measures for suicide risk in BED and interventions for addressing suicidal thoughts and behaviours.
3. Highlight the morbidity of BED populations in the context of self-harm and suicide attempts, which will help clinicians to understand BED better and guide clinical management.

 

Christina Sanzari

University at Albany, SUNY

Binge-Eating Disorder with and without a History of Anorexia Nervosa

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to understand clinical features of comorbid lifetime BED and AN.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to understand the phenomenology of comorbid lifetime BED and AN.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to compare current clinical presentations of individuals with BED and no history of AN to individuals with BED with a history of AN.

Risk & Maintenance Factors

Ariel L. Beccia, MS

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Cumulative Exposure to State-Level Structural Sexism and Risk of Eating-Related Pathology: A 20-Year Prospective Cohort Study

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain why researching structural-level factors is important to understanding and addressing social inequities in eating-related pathology risk.
2. Describe theoretical and methodological considerations to analyzing the relationship between structural-level factors and eating-related pathology.
3. Discuss the implications of this research as it relates to treating and preventing eating disorders, disordered eating behaviors, and body image concerns.

Alexandra Dingemans, PhD

GGZ Rivierduinen Eating Disorders Ursula

Motives for Using Social Networking Sites:  A Uses & Gratifications Perspective Amongst People with Eating Disorder Symptoms

Learning Objectives:

1. High amounts of SNS use may not necessarily be harmful for people with EDs.
2. Specific motives for SNS use may be harmful.
3. Clinicians should discuss motives of SNS use with their clients.

Samantha Hahn, PhD, MPH, RD

University of Minnesota

How do adolescent weight perceptions affect disordered eating behaviors through adolescence into adulthood?

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the concept of weight perception and it’s public health and clinical significance.
2. Describe the trajectories of weight perception among a population-based sample of young people.
3. Explain the longitudinal relationships between weight perception trajectories and disordered eatin. 

Meredith Kells, PhD

University of Chicago

Health Literacy and Eating Disorder Pathology in Women with Food Insecurity

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to describe the association between health literacy and eating disorder symptoms in women with food insecurity.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to identify components of ED pathology associated with health literacy.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to highlight that binge eating as a behavior requires further investigation to identify the mechanism in food insecure women.

Shruti Kinkel-Ram, MA

Auburn University

A Longitudinal and Contemporaneous Network Analysis of Agitation, Sleep and Eating Disorder Symptoms

 Learning Objectives:

1. Investigate how network analysis can be used to explore relations between symptom clusters in the study of eating disorders.
2. To learn how to run contemporaneous and longitudinal networks to answer research questions.
3. Investigate the role of acute suicidal affective disturbance-related symptoms, namely sleep and agitation, as risk factors for eating disorders.

 

Shruti Kinkel-Ram, MA

Auburn University

Eating Disorder and Agitation Symptoms among a Sample of Active Duty Military Members and Veterans

 Learning Objectives:

1. Learn more about how network analysis can be used to study disordered eating.
2. Education of how disordered eating may present among military members.
3. Explore agitation as a novel risk factor for disordered eating, particularly among military members.

Stephanie Manasse, PhD

Drexel University

An Examination of Daily Sleep Characteristics and Subsequent Eating Disorder Behavior Among Individuals with Binge-spectrum Eating Disorders

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the presentation, participants will have an understanding of the role of sleep characteristics in daily relationships with binge eating.
2. Participants will learn about how sleep-related variables may impact engagement in disordered eating behavior.
3. Participants will understand the clinical implications of the links between sleep and disordered eating.

Lyza Norton, Bsc. MND

Griffith University

Maternal eating disorder symptoms predict the use of coercive food parenting practices
 Learning Objectives:

1. Provide two examples of coercive feeding practices.
2. Identify what predictors for coercive feeding practices (pressure to eat, restriction) were examined in the study.
3. Describe the main outcomes of the regression analysis and what clinical significance these results may have for future preventive interventions.

Niva Piran, PhD, FAED

University of Toronto

The Big Dive: The Developmental Theory of Embodiment Sheds Light on the Crisis of Embodiment in Adolescence

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify an integrated set of social risk and protective factors in the physical, social discourses, and social power domains, in line with the Developmental Theory of Embodiment, that have been found in research to shape embodiment and body image.
2. Delineate social risk factors that intensify during adolescence and place adolescent girls at a higher risk to develop disruptions in embodiment and body image. 
3. Apply findings regarding the intensification of co occurring risk factors during adolescence to future research, prevention, and treatment.

Guillermina Rutsztein, PhD; FAED

Facultad de Psicología - Universidad de Buenos Aires

Major Independent Predictors of Eating Disorders Risk in Adolescent Girls from Argentina

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify major independent predictors for eating disorders risk and their predictive capacity, by applying a multifactorial model.
2. Highlight the relevance of both specific and nonspecific factors to predict eating disorders risk.
3. Discuss the implications of these findings in the field of prevention.

 

Naomi Warne, Bsc, Msc, PhD

University of Bristol

Emotion dysregulation in childhood and self-harm and disordered eating in adolescence: Prospective associations and mediating pathways

 Learning Objectives:

1. Both disordered eating and self-harm are common in young people in the general population.
2. Emotion dysregulation is prospectively associated with disordered eating.
3. Emotion dysregulation is prospectively associated with self-harm.

 

Samantha Withnell, MSc

University of Western Ontario

Does Maintaining a Lower Weight Improve Body Satisfaction? A Longitudinal Analysis in Undergraduate Men and Women

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how weight suppression may be related to changes in body dissatisfaction over time in a nonclinical undergraduate sample.
2. Describe gender differences in relations between weight suppression and body dissatisfaction.
3. Describe weight suppression and body dissatisfaction as risk factors for disordered eating in undergraduate populations.

Diagnosis, Classification & Measurement

Sophie Abber

Florida State University

Characterizing Empirically-Derived Bulimic-Spectrum Eating Disorder Subtypes

Learning Objectives:

1. To understand the limitations of DSM-5 classification of bulimic-spectrum eating disorders.
2. To learn how alternative, empirically-derived approaches to classification may help us better understand different ED presentations.
3. To compare features of empirically-derived bulimic-spectrum ED subtypes to the current DSM-5 classification.

 

Mireille Almeida, MD, MSc

Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Using SCOFF to screen eating disorders´ behaviors among Brazilian adolescents and to identify their risk factors

Learning Objectives:

1. To evaluate if SCOFF is a useful EDB screening tool for Brazilian adolescents.
2. To estimate the prevalence of EDB among them, according to SCOFF.
3. To indicate important EDB predictors in this population, specially other psychiatric symptoms.

 

Helena Lewis-Smith, PhD, MSc, BSc

University of the West of England, Bristol

Adaptation and validation of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) in Hindi among Indian adolescents

 Learning Objectives:

1. Explain the importance of adapting and validating eating disorder scales within the specific cultural context within which they will be utilised.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of how to cross-culturally adapt and validate eating disorder scales.
3. Understand how cross-culturally validated eating disorder scales will facilitate clinical screening and research at scale.

 

Brad MacNeil, PhD Clinical Psychology

Midwestern University

Self-Evaluation Based on Body Image in a Clinical Sample of Patients with an Eating Disorder: Principal Component Analysis of the Six-Item Self-Evaluation Based on Body Image Scale (SEBI)

 Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will learn about the important role of self-evaluation based on body image in the emergence and maintenance of eating disorder symptoms.
2. Participants will learn about a new brief 6-item measure, the Self-Evaluation Based on Body Image scale or SEBI, that can be easily employed in outpatient treatment settings.
3. Principal components and psychometric properties of the SEBI will be discussed, as well as clinical applications of the measure.

 

Julia Nicholas, BS

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville

The Performative Eating Scale: A Self-Report Measure of Eating for Impression Management

 Learning Objectives:

1. Define performative eating.
2. Describe specific social eating behaviors assessed by the Performative Eating Scale.
3. Understand the associations between performative eating and eating disorder symptoms.

 

Emily Presseller, BA

Drexel University

Latent Profiles of Dietary Restraint Among Individuals with Binge Eating: Associations with Binge Eating Frequency and Characteristics

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify forms of dietary restraint common among individuals with binge eating.
2. Learn about latent profiles of dietary restraint among treatment-seeking adults with binge eating.
3. Understand associations between profiles of dietary restraint with binge eating frequency and characteristics.

 

Hedvig Sultson

University of Tartu, Institute of Psychology

Moving along the continuum of disordered eating: implications for overeating and binge eating

 Learning Objectives:

1. Disordered eating could be viewed on a continuum, with binge eating representing the end, and overeating the middle part.
2. Emotion regulation difficulties and perceived stress predict overeating (relative to no overeating), indicating that these factors might play a role in the onset of overeating.
3. The relationship between perceived stress and overeating is fully mediated by emotional eating, which suggests that addressing difficulties in emotion regulation should be prioritized in the treatment of individuals who overeat.

 

Kärol Soidla, MA

University of Tartu

Comparison of changes in ED symptoms during inpatient treatment: perfectionism, impulsivity, and disordered eating based profiles versus eating disorder diagnoses as predictors of change

 Learning Objectives:

1. Describe profiles based on maladaptive and adaptive perfectionism and impulsivity, and ED symptoms.
2. Discuss how ED diagnoses versus profiles based on perfectionism, impulsivity, and ED symptoms predict change in ED symptoms during inpatient treatment.
3. Discuss which factors (e.g., some personality traits, duration of disorder, etc.) can influence response to short-term treatment and how those could be considered while choosing treatment approach.

 

Comorbidity

Dr. Nyssa Bulkes

Rogers Behavioral Health

Sleep disturbance in adults with eating disorders: Quantifying symptom severity and treatment trajectory with co-occurring sleep problems

 Learning Objectives:

1. The purpose of this presentation is to inform clinicians of the likelihood of co-occurring sleep problem as eating disorder symptom severity increases, specifically as it refers to different levels of care.
2. The goal of this presentation is to provide clinical evidence of the likelihood of comorbid sleep problems with eating disorder symptom severity using large-sample clinical outcomes data.
3. At the end of the presentation, the audience will be able to use these findings to potentially inform diagnosis and treatment goals for patients who admit with severe ED symptoms.

Unna Danner, PhD

Altrecht Eating Disorders Rintveld

The Relationship Between Eating Disorders and OCD Symptom Dimensions: An Explorative Study in a Large Sample of Patients with OCD

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the presentation, participants will be able to understand the phenomenological overlap between eating disorders and OCD.
2. Following the presentation, participants will be able to explain the frequency of occurrence and clinical characteristics of eating disorder comorbidity in people with OCD.
3. Following the presentation, participants will be able to discuss the relations between other comorbid problems, in particular trauma and depression, and severity of the pathology.

 

Daniel Devoe, PhD

Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary

The Prevalence of Substance Use Disorders and Substance Use in Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the prevalence of substance use disorders in AN.
2. Understand the most common types of substance use disorders in AN.
3. Understand different identification and treatment approaches for substance use disorders in AN.

 

Daniel Devoe, PhD

Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary

The Prevalence of Impulse Control Disorders and Behavioural Addictions in Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the prevalence of impulse control disorders (ICDs) and behavioural addictions in eating disorder.
2. Idenfity the subtypes of impulse control disorders and behavioural addictions in eating disorders.
3. Understand the differences in prevalence for impulse control disorders and behavioural addictions in different types of eating disorders.

 

Christopher Huebel, PhD

King's College London, UK

Comorbid Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Aggravates Impulsive Eating Disorder Symptoms and Suicidality

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understanding the association among eating disorder types, trauma experiences and PTSD.
2. Identifying the impact of comorbid PTSD on binge eating and vomiting in eating disorder patients.
3. Identifying the impact of comorbid PTSD on suicidality symptoms in eating disorder patients.

Meredith Kells, PhD

University of Chicago

Web Based Screening and Brief Intervention Increases Self-Reported Motivation to Reduce Binge Eating and Binge Drinking in College Students

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to identify binge eating and binge drinking as comorbid behaviors of concern in college youth.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to describe correlates of binge eating in college youth.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to describe co-occurence of binge eating and binge drinking in college youth.

 

Maren Kopland

Modum Bad Psychiatric Centre/University of Oslo

Self-compassion and eating disorder symptoms in therapy

 Learning Objectives:

1. Develop an understanding of what self-compassion is.
2. Understand why it is important to investigate self-compassion as a process in a longitudinal framework.
3. Understand LCM-SR as a unique method that enables investigation of reciprocal within-person effects.

 

Amlish Munir, MD

University of Calgary

The Prevalence of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

 Learning Objectives:

1. Summarize the literature regarding the prevalence of suicidal ideation, self-harm, and suicide attempts in AN.
2. Identify the difference in prevalence for suicidal ideation, self-harm, and suicide attempts in AN-BP versus AN-R.
3. Increase the awareness of screening measures for suicide risk in AN and interventions for addressing suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

Felipe Quinto da Luz, PhD

University of Sao Paulo

An examination of the relationships between binge eating and sleep parameters: a systematic review and meta-analyses

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to compare the occurrence of sleep problems in people with or without binge eating.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to understand the most prevalent sleep problems in people with binge eating.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to compare sleep patterns in people with or without binge eating.

 

Renee Rienecke, PhD

Eating Recovery Center/Northwestern University

Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Adults with Eating Disorders: Comparison to a Nationally Representative Sample and Identification of Trauma Profiles

 Learning Objectives:

1. Describe what is assessed by the ACE Survey.
2. Identify how patients with EDs differ from a nationally representative sample in terms of childhood trauma.
3. Discuss latent classes of ACEs identified in the current study.

 

Maya N. Sohn, BSc

University of Calgary

Risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in eating disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis

 Learning Objectives:

1. Summarize the peer reviewed literature comparing risk of suicidal ideation, attempts, and death in eating disorders.
2. Identify the precise risk of suicidal ideation, attempts, and deaths in ED populations compared to controls.
3. Identify necessary studies to better disentangle suicide risk in ED populations compared to other psychiatric groups.

 
Claire Trainor, BA

Drexel University, Center for Weight, Eating, and Lifestyle Science

Expressed emotion as a unique predictor of eating pathology among adolescents with severe depression: An analysis of a residential treatment center

Epidemiology

Edith Breton

University of Montreal

Trajectories of eating disorder symptoms from early adolescence to young adulthood in a community sample

Learning Objectives:

1. To introduce a semiparametric model allowing the identification of distinct eating disorder symptoms trajectories across adolescence, in a community sample.
2. To determine important time windows for the development of eating disorders symptoms in adolescence and for future preventive interventions.
3. To evaluate factors associated with an increased risk of belonging to a trajectory linked to high levels of eating disorder symptoms.

 

Helena Davies, MScR, MSc

King's College London

When do eating disorders start? An investigation into two large UK samples

 Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss the difference in age at onset of different eating disorders (e.g., bulimia, binge-eating disorder, anorexia).
2. Discuss sex differences in the average age at onset for different eating disorders.
3. Argue for the importance of increased investment into adult clinical services.

 

Kelly Harrington, PhD

VA Boston Healthcare System; Boston University School of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry

Incidence of Eating Disorders in the Veterans Healthcare Administration Electronic Health Record from 2016 to 2020

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the incidence of eating disorders among veterans receiving care from the Veterans Healthcare Administration from 2016 to 2020 using electronic health record  data.
2. Better understand the characteristics of the VHA veteran population diagnosed with EDs including age, gender, race, ethnicity, and ED subtype.
3. Discuss the implications of our findings for improving detection and treatment of EDs in specific subgroups of the population which have previously received less attention including men, diverse racial groups, and older adults.

 

Lauren Hayes, M.Ed.

University of Memphis

Disordered Eating among Sex Trafficking Survivors: Prevalence, Mechanisms, and Recommendations for Intervention

 Learning Objectives:

1. Demonstrate a foundational understanding of sex trafficking and the emotional and physical health consequences of sex trafficking.
2. Describe how the unique trauma of sex trafficking results in elevated risk for disordered eating patterns among STS by applying the principles of objectification theory and considering how discrimination moderates sex trafficking experiences.
3. Recognize how the results of this study can be used to develop aftercare services for sex trafficking survivors, specifically interventions targeting disordered eating.

 

Janne Tidselbak Larsen

Aarhus University

Diagnosed eating disorders in Danish registers – incidence, prevalence and mortality

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the changes in incidence of the different eating disorder types across age.
2. Recognize that the risk of anorexia nervosa onset is associated with polygenic scores not only for anorexia nervosa but also for other traits such as body fat percentage.
3. Appreciate the difference between relative and absolute measures of disease and mortality.

 

Robin Rica, MsC

Autonomous University of Madrid

Epidemiology of Muscle Dysmorphia and Eating Disorders in Spanish Male University Students: a two-stage study

 Learning Objectives:

1. To deepen knowledge of the disorders associated with body dissatisfaction in men.
2. To find out the prevalence of ED and DM in Spanish men.
3. To deepen the conceptualization of Muscle Dysmorphia as part of the spectrum of ED.

 

Biology & Medical Complications

Afrouz Abbaspour, PhD

Karolinska Institutet

Investigation of intestinal, oral, and vaginal microbiomes in severe and enduring anorexia nervosa

Learning Objectives:

1. To understand the characteristics of severe and enduring anorexia nervosa.
2. To appreciate how investigating the intestinal, vaginal, and oral microbiomes in severe and enduring anorexia nervosa will enhance our understanding of the underlying biology of this illness.
3. To understand how the microbiome can be used as a potential target in the treatment of severe and enduring anorexia nervosa.

 

Ella Cho, Undergraduate Researcher

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Investigating the Relevance of the Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio in Eating Disorders

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand what platelet-to-lymphocyte and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratios are and their potential clinical and diagnostic significance in adolescents with eating disorders.
2. Recognize that PLR and NLR are correlated with markers of medical severity in eating disorders.
3. Elucidate sex-specific correlates of PLR with weight-related parameters in male adolescents with eating disorders.

 

Daria Igudesman, MS

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Associations of disordered eating and insulin restriction with the intestinal microbiota and short-chain fatty acids among young adults with type 1 diabetes: The ACT1ON Study

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to identify unique symptom of disordered eating in type 1 diabetes.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to explain two ways in which modifying the intestinal microbiota can benefit the human host.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to explain one pathway through which disordered eating may modify the intestinal microbiota in type 1 diabetes.

 

Anna Karam, PhD

Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

The Impact of Nutritional Rehabilitation on Cognition among Hospitalized Patients with Severe Eating Disorders

 Learning Objectives:

1. Clinically characterize a sample of patients with severe eating disorders hospitalized for medical stabilization.
2. Among these patients, examine short-term changes in overall cognitive performance, and fluid and crystallized intelligence during medical stabilization.
3. Describe clinical implications of findings on how malnutrition impairs cognitive functioning, and how cognitive performances changes with nutritional rehabilitation. 

 

Mariana Lopes, PhD candidate

Nutrition Department of the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo

Associations Between Symptoms and History of the Eating Disorder and Fractures in Women with First-Episode Anorexia Nervosa and with Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa.

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify clinical difference between individuals with first-episode and with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa.
2. Recognise risk factors associated with bone loss in anorexia nervosa.
3. Understand the importance of early intervation in eating disorders to protect bone health.

 

Maria Mauro, MS, Master

UFRJ

Does grazing after bariatric surgery could be a marker of psychiatric comorbidity?

 Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss grazing definition.
2. Show grazing comorbidity with psychiatric diagnoses.
3. Discuss the association between grazing and depression.

 

Sara Mehta

Duke University Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

The role of body trust in the association between visceral sensitivity and disordered eating

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the relationships among body trust, visceral sensitivity and eating disorder symptoms.
2. Understand the associations between of body trust, restrictive eating, and cognitive restraint.
3. Discuss next steps for improving body trust in individuals sensitive to visceral sensations as an eating disorder treatment strategy.

 

Connor (CC) Mooney

Weight suppression, not percentage median BMI, predicts serum ferritin in adolescents with eating disorders

 Learning Objectives:

1. To better understand ferritin elevation in adolescents with eating disorders.
2. To examine associations between serum ferritin levels, %mBMI, and percentage weight loss (an indicator of weight suppression) in adolescents with eating disorders. 
3. To elucidate the relationship between ferritin levels and weight suppression.

 

Mariana Sánchez Huergo, Clinical Dietitian

Universidad Europea de Madrid

Gut Dysbiosis: A Path to Comprehend Neuroendocrine and Eating Behavior Disorders in Obesity

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to know the physiopathology of obesity and its impact on gut microbiota.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to establish a link between gut microbiota and eating behavior response through the gut-brain axis.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to partially modulate eating and neuroendocrine disorders affected by gut dysbiosis.

 

ARFID

Lisa Dinkler, PhD

Centre of Eating Disorders Innovation, Karolinska Institutet

Genetic and environmental influences on the avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)-like phenotype in 9- to-12-year-old Swedish twins

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to report an estimate of the twin heritability of ARFID and understand how this estimate fits in with estimates for other eating, neurodevelopmental, and psychiatric disorders.
2. Participants will also be able to recognize if and why future genetic research on ARFID will be necessary.
3. Participants will learn how they can use existing data to approximate an ARFID phenotype for research.

 

Julia Gianneschi, B.A.

Duke University

Assessing Fear of Negative Consequences and Anxiety in Children with ARFID Symptoms

 Learning Objectives:

1. Define fear of aversive consequences in Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).
2. Note differences between parent-reported and child-reported fear of aversive consequences in children with ARFID.
3. Note differences between parent-reported and child-reported anxiety in children with ARFID.

 

Debra Katzman, MD, FRCPC, FAED

The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto

Examining heterogeneity in children and adolescents with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: A Latent Class Analysis

 Learning Objectives:

1. Define three distinct patient clinical profiles for children and adolescents with ARFID. 
2. Appreciate that children and adolescents with ARFID may require treatments that target specific clinical profiles.
3. Recognize that there are children and adolescents with ARFID who have overlapping symptom profiles which may suggest a need for consideration of a multidimensional approach to the conceptualization of this disorder.

 

Rachel Lapidus, PhD

UCSD Eating Disorder Center for Treatment and Research

Exploring the Role of Parental Factors in Treatment Outcomes for a Sample of Pediatric ARFID Patients

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the impact of parent factors to child ARFID treatment.
2. Consider how parent training can be incorporated to childhood treatment of ARFID in a partial hospitalization program.
3. Reflect the importance of including family based treatment principles in treatment of childhood ARFID.

 

Ilana Pilato, PhD

Duke University

Sensory Sensitivity and Temperament in Children with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the role of temperament in ARFID.
2. Relationship between sensory sensitivity and ARFID.
3. Explain variability in ARFID severity.

 

Aluma Sella, MD

Lower Ghrelin Levels are Associated with Greater Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescents and Young Adults with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

 Learning Objectives:

1. Be familiar with the role of ghrelin in response to stress and anxiety.
2. Appreciate anxiety as a common comorbidity in individuals with ARFID.
3. Understand the relationship between ghrelin levels and anxiety symptoms in individuals with ARFID and the potential of targeting ghrelin pathways in the treatment of ARFID.

 

Casey Stern, BA

Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Further Evidence for the Validity of the Pica, ARFID, and Rumination Disorder ARFID Questionnaire (PARDI-AR-Q)

 Learning Objectives:

1.  Identify the strengths and limitations of available clinical interviews and screening instruments for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID).
2.  Describe the psychometric properties of a new self-report screening instrument—the Pica, ARFID, and Rumination Disorder ARFID Questionnaire (PARDI-AR-Q).
3.  Understand the clinical and research settings in which the PARDI-AR-Q could be utilized as a self-report screen for ARFID.

 

Macy Wallace

Evaluating the Roles of Cognitive Rigidity, Disgust Propensity, and Sensory Sensitivity in Mediating the Relationship Between Picky Eating and Anxiety

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify shared mechanisms of selective eating and anxiety.
2. Differentiate between mechanisms as mediators and shared mechanisms.
3. Determine what led to the hypothesis that selective eating and anxiety are separate disorders.

Stigma

Isabelle Blaber, B.A.

University of Kentucky

The Weight of Stigma: Exploring the Role of Race- and Sexuality-Based Stigma in Eating Disorders Among Racially Diverse LGBTQ+ Individuals

Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to identify ways in which experiences of identity-based stigma impacts ED presentation and pathology among marginalized populations.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to discuss the relative contributions of race-based and sexuality-based stigma to ED pathology.
3. Following the training, participants will be able to identify the intersectional nature and contributions of multiple sources of identity-based stigma on ED pathology. 

 

Laura Rodríguez-Mondragón, MsC, PhD Student

School of Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid

Examining weight bias internalization among secondary school adolescents in Spain: psychological correlates across genders.

 Learning Objectives:

1. Make visible the importance of stigma related to weight in Spanish adolescents according to their gender.
2. To examine the psychological correlates of stigma related to weight with aspects related to body image, self-esteem and eating behaviors for the first time in Spanish adolescents according to their gender.
3. Comparison the impact of stigma related to weight in adolescents according to their gender identified as female, male, non-binary or others.

 

Neurobiology & Genetics

Linda Booij, PhD

Concordia University/ CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital

A Longitudinal Study on Cortical Thickness and Childhood Eating Behaviors: Differences according to Sex and Age

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the association between childhood eating behaviors and risk for eating disorders.
2. Understand brain processes that are involved in (mal)adaptive eating behaviors.
3. Understand the role of sex and age in the neural morphological correlates of childhood eating.

 

Marcela Carvalho, Master's Degree

Body image alterations in eating disorders patients: a systematic review of neuroimaging studies

Learning Objectives:

1. Body image is integrated into the self, which raises the suspicion of being a psychopathological trait. Neurological alterations may point in this direction.
2. Body image distortion is more than a diagnostic criterion, but it is associated with the constitution of the subject.
3. Innovate body interventions that concern the theme of body image. Interventions that consider the body and not just cognition.

 

Michaela Flynn

King's College London

An Intervention with Spark: Exploring the feasibility and effectiveness of tDCS with Attention training in Binge Eating Disorder

 Learning Objectives:

1. Describe transcranial direct current stimulation.
2. Understand the rationale for using neuromodulation to treat eating disorders.
3. Evaluate the current evidence on the effectiveness of this intervention in binge eating disorder.

 

Sahib Khalsa

Laureate Institute for Brain Research

Impact of Floatation Therapy on Body Image and Anxiety in Anorexia Nervosa: A Randomized Clinical Efficacy Trial

 Learning Objectives:

1. Describe floatation therapy including the manner in which this intervention modulates the nervous system’s processing of sensory signals.
2. Describe the specific impact of floatation therapy on certain symptoms of anorexia nervosa.
3. Discuss how floatation therapy can inform treatment development for eating disorders.

 

Howard Steiger, PhD

Further explorations into epigenome-wide alterations in methylation in Anorexia Nervosa: results in actively ill, long-term remitted and non-eating-disordered women

 Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the hypothetical role of epigenetic processes (and DNA methylation in particular) in the etiology of Anorexia Nervosa.
2. Understand the implications of findings from an ongoing study of DNA methylation in people who are actively ill with AN or remitted from it.
3. Conceptualize susceptibility to Anorexia Nervosa as having many determinants—including psychiatric, metabolic and immune-system components.

 

Jet Termorshuizen, MSc

Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Subjective Experiences of Negative Energy Balance in Patients with High vs Low Genetic Risk of Anorexia Nervosa

 Learning Objectives:

1. Appreciate the importance of qualitative research in psychiatric genetics.
2. Explain the concept of negative energy balance and its importance for anorexia nervosa.
3. Understand how polygenic risk may be reflected in subjective experience.

 

Prevention

Latika Ahuja, PhD

University of the West of England, Bristol

Acceptability of a comics-based body image intervention for adolescents in Hindi medium Indian schools

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how ‘edutaining’ comics can be used as an intervention to target body dissatisfaction and disordered eating among adolescents.
2. Understand the importance of using rigorous methods to develop and evaluate culturally appropriate interventions.
3. Understand the acceptability and suggested optimisations for a comics-based intervention targeting body dissatisfaction and disordered eating among adolescents in lower socio-economic India. 

 

Munirah Alshebali

Basic Sciences and Studies Department, College of Community, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman Univer

Dissonance-based prevention of eating pathology in non-Western women: A randomized controlled trial of the Body Project among young adults in Saudi Arabia

Learning Objectives:

1. Dissonance-based eating disorders prevention can benefit women in non-western cultures.
2. The underlying  psychological processes are relevant across cultures and delivery methods.
3. Appropriate cultural adaptation of a prevention programme that was developed in a Western culture is the key factor of feasibility for people in non-western cultures.

 

Danielle Pellegrini, BSc, MPH

McMaster University

Virtual Prevention of Eating Disorders in Children, Adolescents, and Emerging Adults: A Scoping Review

 Learning Objectives:

1. Confirm what programs and offerings are available and accessible virtually in the environment of eating disorder prevention to reach a broader range of youth.
2. Provide recommendations to help inform how in-person eating disorder prevention interventions can be adapted to meet the growing need for virtual prevention programs.
3. Provide findings on best practices on facilitators for virtual eating disorder prevention offerings.

 

Personality & Cognition

Laura Rodríguez-Mondragón, MsC, PhD Student

School of Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid

Family personality traits interactions in eating disorders: a dyadic case-control research.

 Learning Objectives:

1. Examine the relationship between the personality of mothers and fathers of girls with an eating behavior disorder at its onset compared to the personality of mothers and fathers of adolescents without pathology.
2. To know the personality profiles of mothers and fathers of adolescents with an eating disorder as evidence suggests that family involvement is critical to treatment success in adolescent, and this could improve the approach to treatments beyond the temperament of adolescents.
3. Examining the adolescent Spanish population that gives us an idea of the personality traits of the parents and the temperament traits that can be predisposing risk factors for eating disorders, among others.

 

Jordan Schueler, MS

Texas A&M University

Impulsivity Moderates the Relationship Between Dietary Restraint and Binge Eating: Among Intermittent Fasting Groups

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the relationship between dietary restraint and binge eating.
2. Understand how impulsivity affects the relationship between dietary restraint and binge eating.
3. Understand the differences in reports of binge eating among individuals currently engaging in intermittent fasting, those who have fasted in the past, and those who report never having engaged in intermittent fasting.

 

Kelly Dann

The University of Sydney

Assessment of cued task-switching as a measure of cognitive flexibility for eating disorders research

 Learning Objectives:

1. Obtain evidence to help determine which measures of cognitive flexibility may be most useful.
2. Understand how cognitive flexibility performance tests relate to levels of ED-related cognitions and behaviors, mood and everyday flexibility.
3. Gain a better understanding of how to interpret cognitive flexibility data.

 
Lot Sternheim

Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University

Understanding Anxiety in Anorexia Nervosa: Intolerance of Uncertainty and Behavioral Inhibition in Adolescent Females With and Without Anorexia Nervosa

 Learning Objectives:

1. Considering treatment strategies for IU and BI in anorexia nervosa.
2. URecognising the clinical relevance of IU and BI in anorexia nervosa.
3. Understanding the potential role of anxiety in anorexia nervosa.

Gender, Ethnicity & Culture

Brittany Bohrer, PhD

UC San Diego Health Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research

Patient Evaluation of Diversity-Related Group Programming at a Higher Level of Care for Eating Disorders

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize patient-reported benefits of diversity-related programming in HLOC for EDs.
2. Summarize how diversity-related programming can fit within treatment plans in HLOC for EDs.
3. Describe the intersectionality between ED and diverse identities with regard to HLOC for EDs.

 

Farheen Hasan

University of the West of England, Bristol

A qualitative exploration of motivations for fasting and the impact of Ramadan on eating behaviors and body image among Muslim men in the United Kingdom

 Learning Objectives:

1. To understand the complex and varied motivations for fasting during Ramadan among Muslim men.
2. To understand the impact of fasting during Ramadan on increased preoccupation with appearance and control over eating behaviours among men.
3. To identify targets for therapeutic and public policy level interventions to facilitate support for men during, and following, the month of Ramadan.

 

Vivienne Hazzard, PhD, MPH, RD

University of Minnesota

Symptoms Driving Eating Disorder Risk Disparities Among Hispanic/Latino/a Sexual Minorities From Lower Socioeconomic Backgrounds

 Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize that Hispanic/Latino/a sexual minorities from lower socioeconomic backgrounds experience disproportionately high eating disorder risk.
2. Understand which symptoms measured by the SCOFF drive this risk in cisgender men and women.
3. Reflect on the practical implications of these results.

 

Vani Kakar

Macquarie University

The Relationships between Facial and Bodily Attributes and Appearance Satisfaction among Adolescent girls in Australia, China, India, and Iran

 Learning Objectives:

1. Learn about how girls living in diverse cultures feel about their facial and bodily attributes as well as their overall body image.
2. Learn about cross-cultural differences in the links between discrepancy and importance of attributes with appearance satisfaction.
3. Learn how girls from diverse cultures differ on discrepancy in facial attributes and bodily, and importance of these attributes and overall body image.

 

Nicole Kelly, PhD

University of Oregon

Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Elucidate the Link Between Various Disinhibited Eating Qualities and Subsequent Negative Affect among High-Risk Young Men

 Learning Objectives:

1. Identify common disinhibited eating qualities reported in qualitative studies of young men.
2. Describe the link between disinhibited eating qualities and negative affect in a sample of young, high-risk men.
3. Consider the theoretical- and intervention-related implications for young men’s disinhibited eating behaviors.

 

Hunter McGuire, MPH

Exploring the relationship between homonegative school climate and body dysmorphic disorder symptoms in a national sample of sexual minority adolescents

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to understand how homonegative school climates (i.e., LGBTQ-based bullying and harassment in school settings) and negative expectancies (i.e., fear of rejection for being LGBTQ) may impact body dysmorphic disorder symptoms.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to translate these findings to inform clinical practice with sexual minority adolescents.
3. Following the training, participants will develop an appreciation for the multilevel, contextual factors which may place sexual minority adolescents at increased risk for experiencing symptoms of body dysmorphic disorder.

 

Julia Nicholas, B.S.

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville

Social Evaluation, Fear of Weight Gain, and Eating Disorder Severity Among Sexual and Gender Minority and Cisgender Heterosexual Young Adults

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the associations between appearance-related concerns and social evaluation fears and disordered eating in sexual and gender minority and cisgender heterosexual young adults.
2. Understand how fear of personal consequences of weight gain may relate to heightened eating disorder severity among sexual and gender minority young adults.
3. Describe next steps for research on the relationship between minority stressors and eating disorder fears among sexual and gender minority adolescents and young adults.

 

Christina Ralph-Nearman, MSc, PhD

University of Louisville

Is There a Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Eating Disorder Symptoms in Professional Male Models?

 Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how BMI relates to eating disorder symptoms in male fashion models and non-models.
2. Describe similarities and differences in eating disorder pathology between male fashion models and non-models.
3. Understand how physical characteristics of muscle mass and percent body fat relate to eating disorder pathology in male fashion models and non-models.

Atypical Eating Disorders

Monica Jablonski, B.A.

New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University

Laboratory Assessment of Restrictive Eating in Atypical Anorexia Nervosa as Compared with Anorexia Nervosa

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the training, participants will be able to identify similarities and differences between Atypical AN and AN.
2. Following the training, participants will be able to identify characteristics of dietary intake across patients with AN, Atypical AN, and HCs.
3. Following the training, participants will understand the method and utility of the laboratory meal.

 

Yvette G. Karvay, M.A.

Fordham University

Examining Mental Health Symptoms Across Racial/Ethnic Groups of Undergraduate Students With and Without Atypical Anorexia Nervosa

 Learning Objectives:

1. Develop an understanding of differences between individuals with and without Atypical Anorexia Nervosa.
2. Explore similarities and differences across various racial/ethnic identities with and without Atypical Anorexia Nervosa.
3. Consider unique differences between individuals with and without Atypical Anorexia Nervosa with differing racial/ethnic identities from a lens of cumulative marginalization and intersectionality.

 

Experts By Experience

Emma Bryant

InsideOut Institute for Eating Disorders, University of Sydney

'In an otherwise limitless world, I was sure of my limit.' Experiencing Anorexia Nervosa: A Phenomenological Metasynthesis

Learning Objectives:

1. Explore the importance of the voice of lived experience in our understanding of illness phenomena.
2. Gain a comprehensive insight into the phenomenology of Anorexia Nervosa as described by sufferers themselves: that is, the cognitions, emotions and perceptions that encompass illness experience.
3. Consider the significance of anxiety and avoidance in AN and how these may be reinforced by current treatment models.

Rebecca Boswell, PhD

Princeton Center for Eating Disorders, Penn Medicine

Exploring the Lived Experience of Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa (SE-AN)

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand more about the lived experiences of patients with SE-AN.
2. Identify common themes in reports of treatment for SE-AN.
3. Explore potential treatment options that may address goals of patients with SE-AN.

 

Elizabeth Cummings

AED

Deepening Connections With Our Loved Ones: Maintaining Other Aspects of Relationships With Those Suffering from Eating Disorders

 Learning Objectives:

1. Recognising the whole person.
2. Emphasising the value of the individual's personality.
3. Strategic approaches to managing relationships.

 

Ashley King, MA

Virginia Tech

How Providers Utilize their Eating Disorder Lived Experience in the Treatment of Clients with Eating Disorders

 Learning Objectives:

1. Following the presentation, participants will be able identify primary themes in the extant literature on providers with EDLE.
2. Following the presentation, participants will be able to describe the six processes illustrating how providers use their EDLE in session.
3. Following the presentation, participants will be able to discuss clinical implications related to the six processes.