Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center
International Eating Disorder Referral Organization
Announcements/Events/Training for Treatment Professionals
Upcoming Eating Disorder Events are announced on this page. Members feel free to submit all events that will benefit professionals in the treatment and prevention of eating disorders. Scan the page or select from the list of topics below:
Conferences/Professional Trainings, Other Professional Trainings and Courses, Professionals Wanted, Volunteers Needed, Eating Disorder Awareness Events
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Conferences/Professional Trainings (scan down): January, 2012, February, 2012, Year Long Events, Eating Disorder Awareness Events
San Diego, CA: The 26th Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment – 2012 - Hosted by Chadwick Center for Children & Families, Rady’s Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA www.sandiegoconference.org. Preconference Workshop: Treatments for Medical & Psychiatric Disorders in Pediatrics – Entering A New Era. Sunday, January 22nd, 2012; 9:00 am - 12:00 pm; Registration at 8:30am. Town and Country Resort Hotel. Speakers include John Rolland, M.D. – Chronic Pediatric Illness & the Family: An Integrative Treatment Model; Walter Kaye, M.D – Your Patient Has An Eating Disorders: What do you do about it?; A New Era of More Effective Skill-based Treatment; Kerri Boutelle, Ph.D. – Comorbities between Trauma, Eating Disorders and Gastrointestinal Issues. 3 hours of CME/CEU/Contact House offered for this workshop. For more information, please contact Alyson Merchant 858-966-8908 or amerchant@ucsd.edu.
Orem, UT: Center for Change National Eating
Disorders Conference for Professionals 2012 - Creating Success in Recovery: Wise
Navigation in the Continuum of Care. January 27-28, 2012 Creating Success in
Recovery: Wise Navigation in the Continuum of Care. The keynote speaker will be
Carolyn Costin, M.A., M.Ed, MFT and other speakers include Michael E. Berrett,
PhD, Jessica Setnick, MS, RD, LD, CSSD, Nicole Hawkins, PhD, Edward P. Tyson,
MD, Rachele McCarthey, MD, Greg Ellis, MD, and Jenni Schaefer. Click this link
for more information and to register:
http://centerforchange.com/news-resources/current-events/center-change-national-eating-disorders-conference-professionals-2012
Petaluma, California: February 2-4, 2012,
EDRS, Inc. 6th Annual Eating Disorder Awareness Week Conference.
Eating Disorder Recovery Support, Inc. is a Marin and Sonoma County based
501(c)(3) organization that is dedicated to promoting community awareness of
eating disorders, professional education and collaboration, and providing
treatment scholarships to California residents in need of financial assistance
for treatment. Each year EDRS, Inc. holds a fundraising conference to help
accomplish these goals and 100% of the registration fees go directly to the
Treatment Fund. This year the keynote speakers include Dr. Kaye, Dr. Anita
Johnston, and Kim Chernin. For more information, register, or make an online
donation, please visit www.edrs.net.
2011 Molly Kellogg’s Counseling Intensive for Nutrition Professionals. This highly interactive, practical workshop is designed to advance dietitians’ proficiency with nutrition counseling skills. 12 credits (RDs and DTRs) Two full days of training. 2011 Cities: New York, NY: October 23-24 and Scottsdale, AZ: December 2-3. One-day training in San Diego, CA: September 23. Call 215-843-8258 or molly@MollyKellogg.com www.mollykellogg.com.
Thousand Oaks, CA - Professional Roundtable: La Ventana Treatment Programs hosts quarterly CEU events to welcome your thoughts and insight as you collaborate with colleagues on various issues. Support your practice with clinical and peer review while forming a cohesive team approach. No RSVP necessary and feel free to bring your lunch. Location: La Ventana Treatment Programs, 275 East Hillcrest Drive Suite 120, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360. Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm. For more information please visit www.laventanaED.com.
Southern California - Professional Study Group: Carolyn Costin, MFT invites all treating professionals to her study group. This group takes place the first Thursday of every month from 12:00-1:00pm at her day treatment center, Eating Disorder Center of CA, www.edcca.com. You are welcome to bring a lunch. The group covers case reviews, treatment strategies, new literature and research, and other areas related to treatment of eating disorders. CEU's are given to MFT's and LCSW's. Call for more information at 310-457-9958.
Southern California - Professional Study Group: Carolyn Costin, MFT invites all treating professionals to her study group. This group takes place the first Wednesday of every month from 12:00-1:30pm at her residential treatment center, Monte Nido, www.montenido.com. You are welcome to bring a lunch. The group covers case reviews, treatment strategies, new literature and research, and other areas related to treatment of eating disorders. CEU's are given to MFT's and LCSW's. Call for more information at 310-457-9958.
Eating Disorder Awareness Events (scan down)
Charlotte, NC - National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Walk. The Charlotte, NC NEDA Walk is bringing their community together to increase eating disorder awareness and raise funds for NEDA in a fun way. Register and help NEDA support individuals and families affected by eating disorders at a safe friendly event. Date: October 22, 2011. Registration opens at 8:00am and the walk begins at 9:00am. The location is Freedom Park. To preregister visit http://neda.nationaleatingdisorders.org/CharlotteWalk.
Other Professional Trainings and Courses (scan down)
Eating Disorders, Compulsions & Addictions - Training & Education. Director: Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D. The White Institute’s Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addiction Service (EDCAS) is a one-year course of study that focuses on integrating principles of interpersonal psychoanalysis with other treatment modalities. Theory and clinical casework is explored in the areas of disordered eating issues, substances, relationships, exercise, internet use, body image, and affect regulation. In addition, EDCAS offers ongoing Workshop Series that explore particular topics. All EDCAS faculty and supervisors are graduates of the William Alanson White Institute, with the exception of guest speakers from other institutes or disciplines. The EDCAS 31-week comprehensive program combines didactic and clinical seminars, educational experience to mental health professionals who want to use the interpersonal perspective in working with people who have eating disorders, compulsions, or addictions. Each participant will be assigned a mentor who will be available for consultation and support throughout the program. Classes will be held on Fridays at the William Alanson White Institute, 20 West 74th Street, New York, NY. Individual and group supervision is optional for program participants and offered in the private offices of the program faculty for a period of 20 weeks. This supervision is available to students who are mental health professionals who hold a New York State license or limited permit for professional practice in a field whose “scope of practice” includes psychotherapy. For more information visit www.wawhite.org.
Eating Disorders Case Consultation Group: Monthly free meeting for consultation, sharing of knowledge, and support for clinicians working (or interested) in the field of eating disorders treatment. When: 2nd Tuesday of each month, 12:30- 2:00pm, Where: Suite N-B at New Beginnings Counseling Center. Call or email susanrichter.mft@verizon.net to reserve your space. It’s a bring your lunch, drop in group no prior consult or reservation required. Call Susan at 805-987-3162 ext. 5 for more information.
Home Study or Online Course: Healing Intractable Eating Problems: Course designed by Judy Lightstone (formerly Dissociative Processes in Eating Disturbances: A feminist Object Relations Approach). This Course meets qualifications for LMFTs and LCSWs Mandatory Continuing Education as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (PCE #3370) to earn 6 CEUs. At present there are no highly effective systematic approaches for assessing or intervening with the many patients with intractable compulsive eating, restricting, or purging symptoms. Instead we are told that eating disorders are hard to impossible to treat and we should lower our expectations for outcomes. This course covers the feminist Object Relations approach to working with eating and body image disturbances. It includes training in offering psychoeducation to your patients about how to identify and intervene into the binge/starve or diet or purge cycles, and following intuitive hunger-based eating guidelines. The method taught is symptom-focused, yet psychodynamic in orientation, allowing the therapist to understand and use the symptoms as metaphors for other psychological issues, while still respecting the deep pain of eating and body image obsessions. Eating problems usually involve varying degrees of dissociation - most especially somatoform dissociation of sensations of hunger, fullness, and proprioceptive awareness of body size. The correlation between compulsive eating patterns and dissociation has been noted by many, yet as yet there are no explanations for the causes of this correlation, or structured interventions with patients who may initially present with no traumatic history. Through a synthesis of anecdotal data, experiential exercises participants can immediately apply to their practice, theoretical formulations, and a review of the most up-to-date research on traumatic memory and attachment deficits, this course will cover the continuum of complex trauma and dissociation and offer clear step by step guidelines for assessment and intervention with so-called "impossible to treat" patients. For more information call Judy Lightstone at 510-704-0940. If you are interested in obtaining a packet for the course visit http://www.psychotherapist.org/Continuing_Education.htm.
Professionals Wanted (scan down)
Online Courses for Professionals: The Aliveness Training in Somatic Process™.
Trains you to teach your clients how to. . .
* Live in alignment with the heart;
* Infuse life with vitality, creativity, and synchronicity;
* Leverage out-of-control experiences into joy;
* Turn fears into blessings;
* Transform the underlying forces that drive dysfunction;
* Live beyond struggle;
* Create a new powerful self-image.
The Aliveness Training in Somatic Process evolved from the deep spiritual growth
work of psychotherapist Jane E. Latimer. Uniquely focused on simple methods of
aligning the body with heart, mind and the natural world Latimer’s processes
lead to a unifying reconnection with nature and self experienced as an opening
of the heart, an enlivenment of the senses and the alleviation of inner states
of stress and unrest. The resulting sense of belonging, cooperation and
connection facilitates the accelerated abatement of addictions, eating
disorders, intimacy problems and other dysfunctional survival mechanisms. For information visit www.emotionaleating.com.
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