Objectives

• Learn why proper nutrition is vital to mental health
  
• Identify the components of good nutrition which are necessary for mental and physical health
  
• Explore reasons people do not eat healthfully and ways to mitigate those issues
  
• Brainstorm ways to help clients get and stay motivated to improve nutrition
  

Objectives:

• Define body dysmorphic disorder
• Explore symptoms and  issues experienced by people with BDD
• Identify common co-occurring issues
• Review literature on current treatment strategies for BDD

• Define an Eating Disorder
• Discuss indicators of readiness for change
• Explore factors maintaining disordered eating
• Learn how to teach patients to self monitor their eating behaviors
• Explore the crucial issue for many patients with eating disorders of regular eating and weighing
• Learn about the function and effects of Binge Eating, Purging and Driven Exercise
• Identify how moods impact disordered eating
• Explore the role of dietary restriction and rules in maintaining disordered eating, along with guidelines for normal eating.
• Explore how people with eating disorders place an unusually high value on controlling their eating, weight and/or shape, and how they judge their self-worth accordingly
• Review information and strategies to start changing the thoughts associated with disordered eating and weight control habits
• Get introduced to a range of strategies for challenging dietary rules and restriction, and food avoidance.
• Discuss some of the consequences of over-emphasizing shape and weight.
• Explores the role of low self-esteem in disordered eating and weight control habits.
• Peruse strategies for improving self-esteem by developing new rules for living and new, more balanced beliefs about yourself.
• Define the "eating disorder mindset," a set of distorted beliefs about eating, weight and shape
• Develop a plan for maintaining the goals that have been achieved so far and preventing relapse

• Explore information on the use of the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
• Summarize the diagnostic characteristics for anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder
• Summarize the most common psychotherapeutic interventions for each disorder
• Describe the characteristics of clients with each of these disorders
• Identify common psychological and medical disorders that cooccur with eating disorders
• Describe how to place patients in any appropriate level of care
• Identify psychological or physical symptoms in comment in eating disorders which may necessitate hospitalization
• Summarize the goals of treatment for persons with eating disorders

Objectives

• Define emotional eating
• Explore the function of emotional eating
• Discuss the evolutionary and behavioral factors which make high-fat, high sugar foods rewarding
• Identify strategies to deal with emotional eating

Objectives:

• Learn about bariatric surgery
• Explore reasons for the surgery and increase in popularity
• Identify the psychosocial outcomes of bariatric surgery
• Identify common presenting issues in persons seeking bariatric surgery
• Explore current recommendations for assessment protocols and presurgical preparation for bariatric surgery
• Identify postoperative mental and physical health issues which may occur and need to be addressed