TH1A, TH1B, TH1C, TH1D
(4-CD Program)
Enhancing Readiness and Motivation for Change in Eating Disorders
Josie Geller, PhD, RPsych
Treatment refusal, dropout, and relapse, which are common occurrences in eating disorders, can be predicted by client readiness for change. This presentation will review the unique concerns of individuals with eating disorders, and address barriers to change at the client, therapist, and program level. A philosophy of assessment and treatment that incorporates readiness information into each level of service delivery will be described. The impact of therapist investment and the need for thoughtful treatment non-negotiables will be discussed. Participants will have an opportunity to use a motivational approach to explore their beliefs about the process of change and therapeutic practice. 
Didactic, Experiential, Interactive
All Levels

TH2A, TH2B, TH2C, TH2D
(4-CD Program)
Integrating Holistic Medicine into the Treatment of Eating    Disorders: Using Kundalini Yoga to Heal
Barbara Wingate, MD and Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
Health is not just in your head but in your body, mind and spirit. This session will explore complementary and alternative medicines and how they can affect eating disorders treatment. Specifically, Kundalini yoga, a yoga that has been featured as a way to treat psychiatric disorders, will be demonstrated. Participants will experience first-hand, the benefits and challenges of yoga and increase their knowledge of their clients’ experiences. Learn exciting new ways to help you and your clients heal and improve health. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a flexible mind!
Experiential, Didactic
All Levels

TH3A, TH3B, TH3C, TH3D
(4-CD Program)
Beyond the Silence & the Fury: Using Action Methods to Treat   Eating Disorders & Trauma
Linda Ciotola, MEd, CHES, PAT
This workshop will explore the use of action methods in the treatment of eating disorders and trauma. Discover how action methods can help clients with a history of trauma and eating disorders discover their voice, safely express feelings, develop empathy for the body and “connect the dots” between food, feelings and relationships. Participants will learn how to use basic psychodramatic skills and specific action structures to address issues that are pervasive in the treatment of eating disorders and trauma.  Expand your “role repertoire” in order to help your clients expand theirs!
Experiential, Didactic
Advanced

TH4A, TH4B, TH4C, TH4D
(4-CD Program)
Beyond a Shadow of a Diet: The Treatment of Compulsive        Eating
Judith Matz, LCSW and Ellen Frankel, LCSW
Do you use the non-diet approach in your clinical practice? Join us for in-depth discussion of the difficult issues that can arise in the psychotherapy of compulsive eating  Topics will include exploring therapists’ attitudes toward weight, integrating the Health at Every Size paradigm, engaging clients who are resistant to giving up dieting, discussing clinical material related to clients implementing the non-diet approach, and examining countertransference issues associated with body size. 
Interactive, Experiential, Didactic
Intermediate

TH5A, TH5B, TH5C, TH5D
(4-CD Program)
What Do You Mean it’s Healthy to Eat Chocolate and French    Fries?  Intuitive Eating in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD
Intuitive eating is a process-based treatment approach that teaches patients to have a healthy relationship with food.  This solution-oriented workshop integrates scientific research and case studies to illustrate practical strategies for nutritionists working with eating disorders. Particular emphasis is placed on helping patients move from structured eating to intuitive eating, challenge the “food police” and give themselves permission to eat any food, not only for recovery but also for health.
Didactic, Interactive
All Levels

FR1A, FR1B
(2-CD Program)
Genes and Environment in Eating Disorders: What Patients, Families and Practitioners Need to Know
Cynthia M. Bulik, PhD
Genetic research has revolutionized our understanding of eating disorders. Today, as part of their quest for understanding, patients and families are informed about this important topic. This workshop will provide a basic primer on genetic research and guidance for clinicians on how to integrate this knowledge into the theory and treatment of eating disorders.
Didactic, Interactive
All Levels

FR3A, FR3B
(2-CD Program)
Writing Towards Health
Martha Peaslee Levine, MD
Individuals with eating disorders are often disconnected from their emotions. They hurt, feel empty, self-loathe, but don’t know why. Writing can help them slip past inner barriers and into the heart of the story. Learn how to assist your clients in writing towards health and why writing exercises are wonderful tools to help patients, as well as therapists, on their journeys of self-discovery.
Didactic, Experiential, Interactive
All Levels

FR4A, FR4B
(2-CD Program)
Through the Lens of Trauma: Rethinking Symptoms, Psychotherapy, and Spirituality
Thomas H. Mallouk, PhD
Psychologically damaging events are isolating and demeaning. This presentation locates problems with eating within the phenomenology of trauma. Psychotherapeutic conventions can inadvertently reinforce the effects of trauma. This workshop illustrates how this happens and articulates an approach that is more likely to transform isolation into relationship and shame into esteem.
Didactic, Interactive
Advanced

FR5A, FR5B
(2-CD Program)
Motivational Interviewing for Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating Disorder
Karyn L. Scher, PhD
Motivational interviewing is an evidence-based treatment protocol effectively developed by Miller and Rollnick for the addictions population. This presentation will discuss application of their approach to eating disorders.  Patients' "Stages of Change," from Prochaska and DiClemente's transtheoretical model, will be matched with appropriately timed interventions designed to address characteristic resistances like rationalizing, reluctance, resignation, and rebellion.  
Didactic, Interactive
All Levels

FR6A, FR6B
(2-CD Program)
What Do I Do Now? An Ethical and Legal Framework for Promoting Lasting Change
Dea Silbertrust, PhD, JD
Therapeutic work with eating disorders is fraught with sticky ethical dilemmas and potential legal pitfalls.  This workshop will demonstrate how a focus on sound ethical practice and risk management can enhance clinical effectiveness.  Learn how to find and apply relevant state law and ethical provisions to resolve difficult therapeutic situations. This session will satisfy psychologist requirements for Ethics CEUs.
Didactic, Interactive
Intermediate

FR7A, FR7B
(2-CD Program)
Lessons from a Seasoned Therapist: A Glimpse Behind Closed Doors
Carolyn Costin, MA, MEd, MFT
Rarely do we get to see other therapists in action. Experienced therapists can explain what they do, but a picture is worth a thousand words.  Clinicians want to know what to do in the difficult moments: how to get unstuck, or deal with resistance, chronic illness and denial. Through the use of video, Carolyn Costin invites participants into her session, where they can benefit from her 30 years of experience addressing these issues. Participants are invited to present difficult cases.
Didactic, Interactive, Experiential
Intermediate

FR8A, FR8B
(2-CD Program)
Creative Destruction: Art Based Interventions with Eating Disordered Clients Who Self-Injure
Michelle L. Dean, MA, ATR, BC, LPC
This workshop focuses specifically on the treatment of clients who demonstrate eating disordered behaviors and who also self-injure. Art based interventions are presented as a means to form a bridge between internal emotional states and their externalization, mitigating, sublimating, and containing the destructive impulses and directing them towards more adaptive outlets.  Artwork will be utilized to illustrate treatment techniques and concepts.
Didactic, Interactive, Experiential
Advanced

FR9A, FR9B
(2-CD Program)
The Therapist–Nutritionist Relationship in Addressing Compulsive Exercise
Molly Kellogg, RD, LCSW and Suzanne Girard Eberle, MS, RD
Using case examples that include compulsive exercise behavior, this workshop will explore the respective roles of the dietitian and therapist in the recovery process. The benefits and potential pitfalls of this vital relationship will be explored, including what dietitians need from therapists and vice versa, in order to maximize change.
Didactic, Interactive
All Levels

FR10A, FR10B
(2-CD Program)
Preventing Eating Disorders and Obesity in Adolescents: What Can Families Do and How Can We Help Them?
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, PhD, MPH, RD
Using an ecological model of familial influences within a larger web of influences, this workshop presents a new way to discuss a broad array of weight-related problems with teenagers and their parents. Topics to be discussed include practical steps parents can take to prevent both eating disorders and obesity in their teenaged children.
Didactic
All Levels

FR11A, FR11B
(2-CD Program)
Beware Genetic Determinism:  The Fine Art of Empowering the Individual
Tamara Pryor, PhD and Kenneth L. Weiner, MD
Therapists must challenge false conclusions about the role of heredity and communicate the value of their treatment approaches. This presentation will examine the use of an empowerment model and Cloninger’s TCI as tools for shaping interventions.  Participants will learn practical methods to decrease harm avoidance and enhance self-directedness, self-acceptance, commitment, mindfulness and authenticity. 
Didactic
All Levels

FR12A, FR12B
(2-CD Program)
TAT & T’ai, Bamboo & Feathers, Healing the Trauma
Deb Burger, BA, LMT and Janet Weisberg, BS
TAT & T’ai is a holistic partnership that restores inner power and peace. TAT is a trauma recovery technique and T’ai Chi Chih is a healing technique of simple movements that circulates and balance energy. In combination, they act to release obstacles and awaken clarity. Attendees will experience this process and will explore the potentials of this new therapeutic model for symptom management, relapse prevention and stabilization.
Didactic, Interactive, Experiential
All Levels

K2
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Beyond the Body Betrayed: 10 Key Factors Influencing Positive Outcomes in Eating Disorders Treatment
Kathryn Zerbe, MD
Based on her forthcoming book, Integrated Treatment of Eating Disorders: Beyond the Body Betrayed, Dr. Zerbe elaborates on 10 key factors that can lead to more positive outcomes in the treatment of eating disorders. Therapist authenticity and the value of accepting small gains over time emerge as central to improvement for patients and for the therapist's ongoing sense of well-being.  Using clinical examples to illustrate the 10 points that have emerged from a synthesis of research in the field over the past quarter century, practical recommendations will be made to help the clinician remain vitally involved and empowered.  Participants will learn techniques to build the therapeutic alliance and to help the patient eventually mourn and let go of their symptoms.

SA1A, SA1B
(2-CD Program)
Inner Spiritual Wisdom: How to Access & Blend It into Traditional Therapies
Marjorie C. Feinson, PhD
Long-term recovery from disordered eating depends upon spiritual support. Yet, mental health professionals generally have little training that blends spiritual approaches into traditional treatment modalities. This experiential workshop responds to that void by demonstrating how therapists can access their own spiritual energy and wisdom using sacred circles, healing affirmations and journal writing.
Experiential
All Levels

SA2A, SA2B
(2-CD Program)
Gaining: What Defines Normalcy After Recovery from Anorexia and Bulimia
Aimee Liu, BA, MFA and Cindy Bitter, BS, AAS
This presentation will feature research findings from a long-range retrospective study of recovery from anorexia and bulimia. Attendees will gain new perspectives on the process of recovery, strategies to prevent relapse, and approaches to help patients prevent intergenerational transmission of eating disorders. The session will include an opportunity to dialogue with a woman who struggled with anorexia for 25 years and is now a coach for other women in recovery.
Didactic, Interactive
All Levels

SA3A, SA3B
(2-CD Program)
Using the Maudsley Approach to Maximize Change in the Treatment of Anorexia
Ellen Lucas, PhD
This workshop presents the Maudsley method as a treatment for anorexia nervosa. The three phases of treatment, treatment goals, and specific interventions will be discussed in depth. Experiential exercises using clinical case examples will be included to help participants become familiar with this method of treatment. 
Interactive
Advanced

SA5A, SA5B
(2-CD Program)
Differentiation of Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder: BED through the Eyes of a Dietitian and a Psychologist
Jennifer Nasser, PhD, RD and Allan Geliebter, PhD
This workshop will compare and contrast obesity and binge eating disorder by reviewing research on the underlying mechanisms of food intake regulation and co-morbid conditions in those who suffer with these disorders. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss clinical case studies and share clinical situations with the presenters. 
Didactic, Interactive
Advanced

SA6A, SA6B
(2-CD Program)
Effects of Different Pharmacologic Interventions on Craving, Restricting, Overeating and Purging
Mark F. Schwartz, ScD and Dorsey Dysart, MD
An important aspect of eating disorders treatment is the reduction of cravings and addictions. This workshop identifies the brain systems that activate cravings and addictions in eating disorders clients and illustrates the use of various pharmacologic interventions as an adjunct to ongoing psychotherapy.  The relationship of neuro-transmitters and medication to addictions and cravings is elaborated and a protocol for combining psychotherapy with medications is described.  Some of these medications include prometha, suboxone, naltrexone, camprall, topamax and a variety of SSRI and mood stabilizers.  The results suggest a new theoretical understanding of subtypes of eating disorders.  
All Levels

SA7A, SA7B
(2-CD Program)
Exercise Therapy as an Adjunct to Treating Eating Disorders
Ralph Carson, PhD, RD, LRD
Although eating disorder treatment often attempts to focus attention away from exercise, especially for the low-weight anorexic who is vulnerable to overtraining and exercise obsession, addressing sound principles of proper exercise with appropriate limits can greatly assist recovery. Learn how the field of exercise physiology and personal training has evolved to better assist the therapist.
Didactic
All Levels

SA8A, SA8B
(2-CD Program)
Wounded Healers: Empowering Mothers to Help their Daughters
Judith R. Rabinor, PhD and Adrienne Ressler, MA, LMSW
Often mothers, who themselves are wounded, feel ashamed, guilty, and bewildered as to how to help their daughters recover. This workshop will teach therapists how to enlist mothers as part of the healing team and focus on how to train them in creating and maintaining a nourishing environment for their daughters. Via lecture, discussion, guided imagery, role playing and video, participants will learn how to empower mothers to support their daughters in the recovery process.
Experiential
All Levels

SA9A, SA9B
(2-CD Program)
When Prevention Works: Effective Psychological and Educational Approaches
Catherine Steiner-Adair, EdD
This workshop presents “Full of Ourselves”, a primary prevention program that reduces risk for disordered eating by increasing self-esteem, promoting body acceptance, providing leadership opportunities and teaching a range of coping strategies to resist the cultural emphasis on maladaptive body preoccupation and unhealthy eating and dieting behaviors.
Didactic, Interactive
All Levels

SA10A, SA10B
(2-CD Program)
Staying Afloat in a Sea of Disconnections: Using a Multifamily Therapy Group to Engage Patients, Families, and Providers in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Mary Tantillo, PhD, RN, CS, FAED
Eating disorders emerge from and create disconnections that are biological, psychological and sociocultural in nature. This workshop describes the Unity Multifamily Therapy Group Approach, aimed at decreasing the number and impact of disconnections to help patients and their families heal and move on in their lives. The workshop will describe the group’s format and illustrate interventions through experiential work, as well as audiotaped and written clinical vignettes.
Experiential
All Levels

SA11A, SA11B
(2-CD Program)
Motion and Emotion
Rochelle Rice, MA and Karol Ward, LCSW
This workshop offers an alternative body-based perspective on the treatment of eating disorders. It examines how movement of the body causes emotional change for both patient and therapist.  A body-mind psychotherapist and movement specialist will explore five techniques – breath, sound, movement, touch and talk – and teach participants how to apply these techniques to self-care in order to heal the whole person.
Interactive, Experiential
All Levels 

SA12A, SA12B
(2-CD Program)
When Trying Harder Just Makes Things Worse: An Experiential Model of Change for Working with Eating Disorders              
Avrum Geurin Weiss, PhD
This workshop will present an experiential model of the process of change during the treatment of people with eating disorders.  The model teaches people how to move further into their experience in order to facilitate the naturally occurring process of change.  Participants will learn when it is most helpful to try harder and when it is important to stop trying so hard in order to achieve effective, enduring change. 
Experiential, Interactive, Didactic
Intermediate

K3
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Sustaining Life: Treating the Chronically Ill Patient with Anorexia Nervosa
Michael Strober, PhD
The suffering of anorexia nervosa is difficult for many to fully grasp. Not only is the patient’s unflinching commitment to starvation rituals unbearably frustrating for both therapist and family, most patients do not even remotely comprehend the forces that perpetuate their illness and interfere with effective therapy. Literature discussing the care of these patients is sparse, and rarely does the decision to undertake their treatment receive the depth of contemplation and planning required on the part of patient, therapist, and loved ones. Treating the chronically ill patient requires clinical judgments and specific technical skills of extraordinary delicacy, and the management of transference and countertransference is equally challenging. This keynote presentation will address these issues by combining detailed discussion of intervention strategies with case illustrations.

SU1A, SU1B
(2-CD Program)
Enhancing Treatment with Internet Self-Help Programs
Richard C. Bedrosian, PhD
While the Internet can harm our clients, it also has great potential to support recovery.  This workshop will demonstrate exciting new self-help tools clinicians can utilize to enhance the treatment of eating disorders and related problems.  Research findings and ethical issues related to the use of these programs will also be discussed.
Didactic, Interactive
Intermediate

SU2A, SU2B
(2-CD Program)
Demystifying the Biological Reasons Behind Eating Disorders: Applications in Therapy Treatment
Jeffrey R. DeSarbo, DO
This workshop is divided into two parts: the first part will provide attendees with an overview of the most recent scientific/biological/medical research in the eating disorder field, including how trauma and environmental influences impact neurobiology. The second part will show therapists how to utilize this information when relating to patients and family members to increase compliance and treatment efficacy.   
Didactic, Interactive
Intermediate

SU3A, SU3B
(2-CD Program)
An Alternate Approach to Obesity Treatment: Health At Every Size
Ellyn D. Herb, PhD
This workshop presents The Health At Every Size (HAES) paradigm as an alternative to insisting on weight loss for obese or overweight individuals.  The HAES approach focuses on health by encouraging intuitive eating, joyful movement, size diversity, and positive body-esteem. Topics will include obesity myths, the hazards of dieting, and the ethical treatment of large people.
Didactic, Experiential
All Levels

SU4A, SU4B
(2-CD Program)
Sexual Empathy and the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Tammy Nelson, MS, LPC, LADC, ATR
A feminist perspective in the treatment of eating disorders includes healthy sexuality as part of a balanced, rewarding life.  Comfort with sexuality can create healthy body curiosity, body safety, and body empathy, which lead to better body image, improved relationships with food, and rewarding boundaries.  Learn how to help clients increase awareness of their sexual and sensual needs to further self-empowerment and recovery. 
Didactic, Interactive
All Levels

SU5A, SU5B
(2-CD Program)
Speaking the Language:  Art Therapy and the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Comer Rudd-Gates, MA, ATR, NCC, LPC
Since eating disorders have a symbolic nature and art is a visual and symbolic language, it can be highly effective in treatment.  Participants will view the film “Bodyspeaks” to witness how art can give voice to the unspoken pain and struggle of eating disorders and body-image dissatisfaction.
Experiential, Interactive, Didactic
All Levels

SU6A, SU6B
(2-CD Program)
Understanding the Eating Disorder/Self-Injury Link
Thomas J. Shiltz, MS, CADC III
Persons who engage in self-injurious behavior typically present with a psychological profile that is remarkably similar to eating disordered individuals. Problems with affect regulation and self-soothing, inability to tolerate being alone, and extreme self-loathing, are common symptoms exhibited by both populations. This workshop describes how these behaviors are developed and maintained in an effort to preserve and restore self-integration and regulate mood, tension and self-esteem.
Didactic
All Levels

SU7A, SU7B
(2-CD Program)
Advocacy in Action: A Daughter's Legacy and Her Parents’ Perspective
Doris and Tom Smeltzer
After losing their 19-year-old daughter, Andrea, to bulimia, Doris and Tom became vocal advocates for personal, professional and cultural change.  Excerpts from their daughter's journals and their own personal journey offer an inside perspective on what parents and other caretakers may or may not need from therapists and guidelines to facilitate necessary changes.
Didactic, Interactive
All Levels