• 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

Contact Hours: 15

Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes

Texts:

• Overcoming Disordered Eating Parts A and B by the Centre for Clinical Interventions  http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/resources/infopax.cfm?Info_ID=48.  18-module therapy protocol
• Overcoming Binge Eating developed by Dr. Stephanie Cassin, based on Taming the Hungry Bear: Your Way to Recover from Chronic Overeating by Trotter and Bromley 2002.
• Presentation by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes 5/17/2016

Objectives

• 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
  

Contact Hours: 12

Instructor:

Course Objectives:

• 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
  

Registration is available at: http://allceus.com  

Support is available at support@allceus.com

Contact Hours: 2

Instructor: Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD,