Upcoming Webinars

Description:

Even seasoned clinicians can struggle to assess client change from a predominantly negative body image to a positive body image. Integrating systematic data collection with empirically supported instruments is an effective way to measure this change. This webinar will identify assessments specific to positive body image that clinicians can utilize to inform clinical decision-making and to determine treatment progress (Body Appreciation Scale-2, Functionality Appreciation Scale, Broad Conceptualization of Beauty Scale). It will also include a discussion of common barriers to using body image assessments in treatment along with practical tips for sharing outcomes with clients.

• Nichole Wood-Barcalow, PhD

  Dr. Nichole Wood-Barcalow is a psychologist who provides psychotherapy in-person (Westerville, OH) and via telehealth to clients through PSYPACT. Her clinical interests include body image, eating disorders, women’s issues, and grief/loss concerns. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from The Ohio State University. She has provided eating disorder treatment via all levels of care to clients across the developmental lifespan in private and government sectors. She is a member of the Editorial Board for Body Image: An International Journal of Research with research publications focused on positive body image including the Body Appreciation Scale-2. Dr. Wood-Barcalow and colleagues published The Positive Body Image Workbook: A Clinical and Self-Improvement Guide (2021) which provides unique clinical tools for clinicians, clients, and others seeking self-improvement. 

• Ashley Dunford, Body Image & Prevention SIG Co-Chair

• Kelsey Gilbert, Body Image & Prevention SIG Co-Chair

Description:

If you, as a clinician, were to identify three of your personality traits that you express productively, what would they be? What are three of your traits that you tend to express unproductively or maybe even destructively at times?  Everyone has personality traits. Traits originate genetically while they are continuously shaped environmentally. Who you are as a person, who your client is, and who you are not, is determined in a large part by your traits. The biological side of your personality, your traits and their neurobiological structural underpinnings is your  temperament. Research has found that eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, share a common combination of traits that increase vulnerability for illness onset. Due to this growing research evidence, a temperament based therapy was developed, iteratively, refined from patient feedback, and has been/is being researched in multiple countries to clarify its outcomes. This AED webinar will introduce you to Temperament Based Therapy with Supports (TBT-S). It will describe its core principles, methods of intervention and why it is needed to augment ongoing ED therapies, such as CBT-E and DBT.  It will describe the biological bases of ED through experiential education and intervention tools that help each client better understand why they tend to respond as they do, and work to use their temperament traits to experientially explore how to resolve problems such as binge eating and purging or restricting. TBT-S is a strength-based therapy. It also includes support persons in segments of treatment. That is the “S” of TBT-S. Attendees will sample how clinicians can explain neurobiologically driven responses and be introduced to how TBT-S helps the client shift their destructively expressed traits into more productive expressions. TBT-S treats to the traits to manage symptoms with supports.

• Laura Hill, PhD
  Dr. Laura Hill is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at The Ohio State University, and a co-founder of the TBT-S Training Institute. Dr. Hill is one of the original founders of the Academy for Eating Disorders and was Director of The National Eating Disorder Organization, aka NEDA from 1990 to 1994. She was also the founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of The Center for Balanced Living from 2000 to 2017. She is the recipient of the Muskingum University Distinguished Service Award and the NEDA 2011 Lori Irving Award for Excellence in Eating Disorders Prevention and Awareness. Dr. Hill was a 2012 TEDx speaker, on “Eating Disorders from 
  the Inside Out.” She has provided ED treatment, spoken internationally, and conducted eating disorder research for over forty years.

• Stephanie Knatz Peck, PhD
  Dr. Peck is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). She has led the development and implementation of the Temperament-Based Therapy (TBT-S) approaches for adolescents and young adults at UCSD in collaboration with Dr.’s Hill and Wierenga. Throughout her career, her work has focused on developing and testing novel interventions for eating disorders, with a focus on targeting temperament and neurobiology in innovative treatment formats.  Dr. Peck was the director of the Intensive Family Treatment Program at the UCSD Eating Disorder Treatment and Research Center for a decade, which served as a clinical treatment lab to test and refine TBT-S approaches. Dr. Peck has a subspecialty in child and adolescent mental health and systemic therapies. She is an expert in family-supported treatments and multi-family treatment approaches. She is devoted to improving treatment possibilities for those with eating disorders and has also been involved in clinical research developing and testing other innovative treatment approaches for eating disorders, including psychedelic treatments. 
  
  
• Christina Wierenga, PhD
  Dr. Christina Wierenga is a Professor, Clinical Neuropsychologist and Co-Director of the Research Program at the UCSD Eating Disorders Center. She is an expert in the neurobiology of eating disorders, in particular related to the neural circuitry supporting cognition and behavior. She conducts neuroimaging and neuropsychological research examining the brain basis of disordered eating, with an emphasis on key constructs that contribute to altered motivation to eat, including cognitive control, reward processing, learning, and interoception. She is also heavily involved in treatment development efforts for eating disorders guided by a neurobiological understanding of temperament-based behavior, as well as treatment outcome studies. Through close collaboration with Drs. Peck and Hill, she has developed and continues to test a Temperament-Based Therapy with Support (TBT-S) approach for adolescents and adults with eating disorders.
  
  

• Krista Crotty, PsyD, Director of Brain-Based Therapy NW, in Seattle, Washington.
  
  
  

Description:

The Substance-Related Addictive Disorders SIG and Experts by Experience Committee are hosting a collaborative panel on treating co-occurring substance use and eating disorders as professionals with lived experience. Our three panelists - Sandi James, Psychologist, CEDC, M.Ed., Sydney Greene, M.S., RDN, and Erin Harrop, Ph.D., LICSW – will respond to discussion questions from our moderator Kim Dennis, M.D. by drawing upon current research as well as their clinical expertise and lived experience with co-occurring eating and substance use disorders. The discussion questions will cover how their lived experience informs their professional work, as well as the benefits, challenges, and stigma of their lived experience in their professional careers. This panel will provide attendees with an increased understanding of these complex clinical presentations and the treatment of co-occurring eating and substance use disorders, how stigma and other challenges associated with treating substance use disorders in eating disorder treatment settings, and how professionals with lived experience may uniquely impact treatment for patients with these co-occurring disorders. 

• Sandi James, Psychologist, CEDC, M.Ed. 
  Sandi James is a registered Psychologist and Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach with more than 15 years working in mental health, eating disorder, and addiction treatment. She is a lived experience clinician and dedicates her career to working with clients that feel let down by current systems of care and treatment approaches. Her primary focus includes mental health and trauma recovery, with a particular focus on co-occurring presentations including substance use or food and compulsive exercise related difficulties.  

• Sydney Greene, M.S., RDN
  Sydney Greene is a registered dietitian and owns the virtual private practice Greene Health which focuses on helping individuals struggling with eating disorders, disordered eating, addiction, body image, and overall mental wellness. Sydney is part of the LGBTQIA community and is in recovery from alcohol use disorder, orthorexia, and anorexia.
  
  
• Erin Harrop, LICSW, PhD
  Erin Harrop (they/them) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver, eating disorders therapist, and medical social worker. Their research focuses on health equity within eating disorder treatment, particularly for marginalized patient groups (larger-bodied people, queer, trans/nonbinary, BIPOC, lower income), and takes a patient-centered, lived-experience perspective.
  
  

• Kim Dennis, MD, Chief Medical Officer at SunCloud Health
  Kim Dennis, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist, eating disorders specialist and board certified in addiction medicine. She specializes in treating eating disorders, addiction, trauma, and complex co-occurring psychiatric disorders. Dr. Dennis also brings lived experience to her work as a physician with long term recovery from ED, addiction and developmental trauma. She is the co-founder, Chief Medical Officer, and CEO of SunCloud Health. Dr. Dennis is also on faculty at University of Illinois Chicago as a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry.