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Disordered Eating Behaviors: Identify and Treat the Underlying Trauma

As you perform your typical intake with a new client, you review their eating habits. There are indications of abnormal eating behaviors like yo-yo dieting and restrictive eating. The client guiltily says things like “I know I should eat healthier.”

Your guard is up, but you quickly move along when their problems don’t take the form of a full-blown eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia.

Disordered eating behaviors are frequently hiding something deeper – serving as a coping mechanism for the unresolved trauma that lies beneath. Without addressing the trauma behind the disordered eating your client will fail to find the relief they seek.

In this recording, you'll learn how to assess and treat disordered eating from a trauma-informed, body positive lens, for improved outcomes!

You’ll get the skills and essential treatment techniques you need for every stage of therapy, including:

Tools to diagnose and treat non-DSM-5® disordered eating
Interventions for reducing trauma symptomology related to disordered eating behaviors
Evidence-based strategies to reframe clients’ damaging relationship with food

Experience the satisfaction of helping your clients to resolve their traumas and release the unhealthy disordered eating behaviors with this powerful non-diet paradigm!

Program Information

Objectives

Build a thorough understanding of childhood trauma, attachment, dissociation, and the researched, causal link to disordered eating.
Utilize evidence-based, assessment tools and interventions for disordered eating, trauma, and dissociation, as well as spouses/partners and families/caregivers.
Examine the history of eating disorder treatment, disordered eating in the United States, and the socio-political/cultural factors involved in disordered eating.
Diagnose and treat non-DSM-5® disordered eating.
Evaluate personal behaviors or counter-transference that could be impeding treatment efficacy.
Apply case studies and conceptualization for incorporating body-positive terminology, awareness and intervention.

Outline

Prepare Yourself for Every Stage of the Therapy Process

Intake Strategies for Successful Therapeutic Intervention
- Looking beyond anorexia, bulimia and bingeing
- Conclusive questions for improving your client intake
- Red flags of disordered eating
- Address common issues that may not be in DSM-5®: Orthorexia, compulsive overeating, diabulimia
- Digging for the roots: is the disordered behavior a result of previous trauma?

Implement Comprehensive Clinical Assessments

How to choose the right assessment for your client
- Specific assessments for the spectrum of disordered eating and trauma
- Additional tools for depression, trauma, or other comorbid conditions
How and when to use assessments for tracking progress
Frequency considerations – get what you need without client burnout
Collaboration within the treatment team

Techniques and Interventions to Transform Your Therapy

Non-diet paradigm to transform your client’s relationship with food
- Health at Every Size (HAES)
- Intuitive eating
- Respect, love and nurturance for self
- Reframing your approach as the clinician
Trauma-informed tactics for each stage of counseling
- Trauma Specific Evaluation of Intake Procedure: what NOT to say/do
- Process and treat trauma and dissociation
Determine the appropriate order of interventions
Avoid re-traumatization
Therapeutic techniques that assist in stabilization
- EMDR
- IFS Mapping: Address the various mindsets of each patient
- Attachment focused work: Self and others
- Art and sand tray interventions, journaling/logging
Therapeutic approaches for stabilization
- Evaluate the Window of Tolerance
- Incorporation of Polyvagal Theory to increase client stability
- Prevent overwhelming trauma symptoms

Put It All into Action: Considerations for Implementation Into Your Practice

Overcome common blocks in therapy
Systemic vs. individual: When to include family/partners
Self of the therapist exercise: Countertransference, bias
Case discussions and video demonstrations
Effective documentation for ongoing treatment
Risks and limitations

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Psychologists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 07/12/2019

When the Body Speaks: Eating Disorders Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory

Eating disorders are complex, multi-layered and pernicious. And yet, even the best evidenced-based interventions currently available have limited long-term outcomes. Ironically, the body, the very stage where the war is waged, may be the missing link to effective treatment for eating disorders. Embodied Recovery is a new model of treatment designed to bring the body itself to the forefront of the treatment process. Grounded in the science of Polyvagal Theory, the ERED model addresses the role of neurobiological organization, the subjective experience of self, and our basic human needs for attachment and defense on our capacity to eat and digest effectively.

Program Information

Objectives

Propose how the systems of attachment, defense, and sensory processing are connected to our capacity to eat and digest effectively through the lens of Polyvagal Theory and correlated models the human behavior.
Demonstrate how Polyvagal Theory is applied to the four principles of the ERED model.
Apply two body-based, Polyvagal-informed, interventions that support regulation of affect, cognition, and digestion when working with eating disorders.

Outline

Treating Eating Disorders: Current Approaches, Why We Need a Body-Based, Polyvagal-Informed Lens.
The application of Polyvagal Theory into the 4 Elements of Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders.
Treating eating disorders from the bottom-up: review two body-based interventions that are Polyvagal-informed, including the integration of Safe and Sound Protocol as evidenced through a case summary.

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Psychologists
Social Workers
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 11/05/2021

2-Day Certified Clinical Trauma Professional: Two-Day Trauma Competency Conference | Module 1

The successful resolution of traumatic stress can be simple

Studies indicate that there are four key elements to effective trauma treatment. When you accomplish these four key elements in treatment with your clients, you will be able to reduce their symptoms and improve clinical outcomes.

Watch this conference and you will walk away with a step-by-step four-stage framework for navigating essential elements of trauma treatment with your traumatized clients.

The essential elements are common to all evidence-based trauma treatments, you will learn how you can integrate this framework with your current approach or methodology to make your trauma treatment even more effective!

This trauma competency training can transform your clinical practice and help improve your trauma treatment outcomes, just as it has for other clinicians around the world.

Best of all, upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of trauma counselling. Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCTP for details.

*We partner with Evergreen Certifications to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers.

Program Information

Objectives

Distinguish the nature of traumatic stress, grief, & loss and their sequelae.
Analyze the clinical application of various theoretical treatment models for traumatic stress, grief & loss.
Evaluate traumatic stress, grief & loss from neurobiological, biochemical, psychological, social & spiritual perspectives in order to improve clinical outcomes.
Analyze the clinical research that supports the imperative factors that influence the efficacy of trauma treatment.
Assess the comorbidity of traumatic stress in other diagnoses, including personality disorders and Dissociative Identify Disorder, and identify appropriate treatment interventions.
Utilize psychoeducation and cognitive restructuring techniques for maximizing client engagement and participation in early stages of treatment.
Determine the efficacy of self-regulation skills as a preliminary treatment intervention for trauma.
Determine the 10 core competencies of traumatic stress, grief and loss and specify the clinical application of each.
Conduct clinical interventions and techniques for the initial assessment, safety and stabilization phase of treatment as well as the remembrance and mourning phases of trauma treatment.
Evaluate the potential clinical limitations and benefits of completing a needs assessment for better progress in treatment.
Utilize clinical skills to support and facilitate recovery from complicated bereavement in clients.
Integrate CBT skills to promote the development of stability, self-efficacy, anxiety management, and relational capacities in traumatized clients.

Outline

A Brief History and Evolution of Traumatic Stress, Grief & Loss

Systemic traumatic stress theory
Symptom review
Review of effective treatments
Tri Phasic model
Most commonly used instruments to assess traumatic stress

Core Competencies of Traumatic Stress, Grief & Loss

Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Factors that Produce Anxiety & Traumatic Stress

Precipitating events
Meaning making
Physiology of Trauma
Perception

Adaptive and maladaptive coping behaviors

Trauma Adaptation
Systemic influences
Emotional & psychological stressors
Integrated theoretical concepts from stress, crisis & trauma theories
Information Processing Model
Psychosocial Model

Review of Effective Treatment Interventions

Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (PE, CPT & SIT)
EMDR & Bilateral Stimulation
Thought Field Therapy (TFT)/Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Sensorimotor

The Biochemical, Affective, and Cognitive Impacts of Traumatic Stress

Affective volatility
The body keeps the score
Neurobiology and biology of traumatic stress

The Impacts of Traumatic Stress Over Time & Across & Within Developmental Stages

Epigenetics
Reactive Attachment Disorder
Adrenal fatigue

The Role of Traumatic Stress in Clinical Disorders such as Personality Disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and More

Traumagenesis
Traumaddiction
Comorbidity

Conceptualizing a Framework of Healing for Survivors of Traumatic Stress

Systemic perspective
Strengths perspective

Survivor metaphor

Traumatic Stress Exists Across the Continuum of Systemic Levels

Systemic trauma theory
Community trauma
Vicarious secondary traumatization

Theories of Traumatic Stress, Loss and Grief

Information processing model
Psychosocial model
Contemporary thoughts

Bereavement and Adjustment Disorders

Supporting Normal Bereavement
Treating Complicated Bereavement

Assessment of Traumatic Stress Disorders

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the APA
DSM-5® changes
ACE & Developmental Trauma
Diagnosing PTSD with the PCL-5

Evidence-Based Techniques/Interventions

Relaxation/Self-regulation
Grounding
Containment
Writing/journaling
Drawing art
Healing metaphors
Transitional objects

Demonstrations: Interactive Exercises/Application of Skills

Cognitive Behavioral Techniques
Narrative Exposure Therapy Technique
Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
Bilateral Stimulation

Limitations of the Research and Potential Risks

Limitations of many accepted models of trauma treatment
Weaknesses and limitations of evidence-based trauma treatment models
Limitations of the diagnostic (DSM-5 ®) system
Limitations and potential risks in grief work, due to research scarcity on the topic

Closure: Lessons Learned

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Case Managers
Addiction Counselors
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Physicians
Other Mental Health Professionals

2-Day Certified Clinical Trauma Professional: Two-Day Trauma Competency Conference | Module 2

ACT for Body Acceptance

Clients are swimming upstream when it comes to positive body image. Hounded with unattainable white western standards about what constitutes an acceptable body, many stop pursuing the life they want. And at the same time, clients can feel shame that they struggle with body positivity and may blame themselves for being stuck. This session will teach you strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients accept the body they inhabit and use it to pursue meaningful activities even as they experience distressing thoughts, feelings, and memories.

Program Information

Objectives

Determine the role of avoidance of thoughts and feelings about body image in keeping clients stuck.
Describe the differences between acceptance and approval when it comes to body image.
Employ values-based action plans to guide clients in taking committed action toward their values.

Outline

Different Approach to Body Image Struggles
- Not depending on body positivity or approval
- Acceptance vs approval when it comes to body image
- Building psychological flexibility
Help clients unhook from Negative Thoughts and Feelings
- Strategies to develop courage to start doing what is important to them
- Working with the body image they have
- Values-based action plans
Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
Nurses
Other mental health professionals

Eating Disorders & Body Image Concerns with Men

Males, long thought to make up just 1 in 10 eating disorder cases, require help in ever greater numbers. Latest research indicates males represent up to a third of those identified with anorexia and bulimia, half with binge eating, and the majority with muscle dysmorphia. To identify and treat males, it takes a complete re-think of what you assume eating disorders look like and how to assist those who are struggling with the deadliest mental illness in the DSM.

Program Information

Objectives

Demonstrate appropriate screening tools and approaches for males with eating disorders and body image concerns.
Develop specific clinical practice goals to enhance prevention or treatment approaches with males.
Integrate social justice factors in treatment of males with body image concerns.

Outline

Etiology, psychological assessment, and evidence-based intervention
Latest research in the field of males with eating disorders
Social justice including racial, ethnic, sexual and gender diversity populations
Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
Nurses
Other mental health professionals

Transdiagnostic CBT for Eating disorders

Emotional avoidance is a distinguishing feature of eating disorders as well as many other clinical conditions, including anxiety and depression which often co-occur with disordered eating and body image concerns. This session will demonstrate how emotional awareness, tolerance, and acceptance can be built utilizing transdiagnostic treatment.

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze at least 2 maintaining factors of eating disorders.
Formulate at least 3 benefits of using a transdiagnostic approach to treat eating disorders and body image concerns
Conduct two emotion awareness skills.

Outline

Context of the Problem: Patient Complexity, Complexity of Treatment Modalities, Research-Practice Gap
Solution to the Problem:  Transdiagnostic Model & the Unified Protocol, Emotional Awareness tools to put into immediate practice
Building Emotional Tolerance through Emotional Exposure.  Video demonstration and practice exercises in building and facilitating cognitive flexibility and empathy
Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals