Binge Eating Disorder: Shedding Light on the Most Common Eating Disorder
Binge Eating Disorder: Shedding Light on the Most Common Eating Disorder is organized by E Care Behavioral Health Institute.
Overview:
This continuing education workshop will focus on the Binge Eating Disorder definition, assessment, treatment, coexisting disorders, the impact of it being an addition to the DSM-5, and any therapy-related issues that may arise that can be challenging for both patients as well as clinician/treatment team to face and overcome. Placing Binge Eating Disorder (BED) in the latest edition of the DSM has generated a significant shift in the mental health world, specifically those that specialize in eating disorders and other addiction-focused treatment settings.
This workshop will allow us to explore BED in more detail and provide insight on how to shift our treatment focus and our attitudes beyond thinking of eating issues as a simplistic lack of willpower and shift awareness towards it is the most common eating disorder, yet the most treatable eating disorder as well. Persons deemed appropriate to attend this workshop might include addictions counselors, pastoral counselors, wellness and/or life coaches, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, family physicians, pediatricians, teachers, athletic trainers and/or coaches, and any related treatment professional that might be specializing in the general clinical, child-adult, school, as well as sport/performance settings.
Objectives:
• Identify the features of BED and explore more about the importance of recognizing it as a mental health diagnosis when prior to 2013 the DSM criteria placed it in the EDNOS category.
• Recognize the common co-existing disorders that tend to present before, during, and after diagnosis of BED and BED treatment.
• Show the most common situations and conversations related to BED throughout the treatment process.
• Explain how BED is rooted in shame and guilt and explore how BED differs from other addictions.
• Recognize treatment options, barriers to treatment, relapse prevention, etc.
• Explore the impact of society, social media, self-esteem, and past traumatic experiences that play a role in BED development.