SUMMER SCHOOL FOR PROFESSIONALS 

 

Join us for our First Annual Summer School Session for Professionals!                                                  Here you will be able to take a break from your busy summer schedule and catch up on CEU credits while learning up-to-date information about eating disorders so you can continue helping families, parents, students, and clients as they travel their path towards recovery.

                                        SIGN UP TODAY!                                                      

 Event Schedule:

8:15-9:00  Registration, Breakfast, and Networking with Colleagues                                                                 ** Make sure to come early so you can meet other professioinals over breakfast and coffee**

9:00  Welcome

9:15-10:35  Invisable Sufferers: Midlife Women with Eating Disorders (Carolyn Karoll, LCSW-C & Genny Roanhouse, LGSW) Renfrew Center of Baltimore

This workshop will adress eating disorders in midlife women, including onset, triggers, stressors, similarities, and the general differences between women in midlife, and women in other developmental stages.  You will also learn treatment recommendations for this population.

10:35-10:45  Break

10:45-12:05  Help Your Clients Rebel Against Dieting, Eat Mindfully, and Love Joyfully (Kait Fortunato Greenburg, RD LDN & Dana Magee. RD LDN) Rebecca Bitzer & Associates, Annapolis/Greenbelt/Columbia, MD

This workshop will educate you about how to help your clients properly fuel your body and fit in all the foods that they love.  We will answer the questions: What is normal eating & What does that mean to you? You will learn how to fit nutrition into any lifestyle while taking care of yourself along the way.

12:05-1:00  Lunch

1:00-2:20  Males with Eating Disorders: A Look at the Disease From the Inside (Andrew Walen, LCSW-C) Director of The Body Image Therapy Center, Columbia MD

This program will describe the experience of males who develop eating disorder behaviors that can eventually overwhelm their lives.  Participants will learn from patients' own stories, including that of the presentor, what it's like as a male in a thin-obsessed society and how to best discuss eating disorder issues with boys and men. It will also provide resources for help, latest research information on males with eating disorders, treatment options, and how to breakdown the language barrier in the world of eating disorders that keeps so many men and boys away from treatment. 

2:20-2:30  Break

2:30-3:50  The Emporer's New Clothes: Bias Inside the Therapy Room (Chase Bannister, LCSW, CEDS) Veritas Collaborative, Durham, NC

Stigma and shame are not unknown concepts to healthcare providers, particularly those speciality providers caring for persons with chronic illnesses, metabolic disorders, eating disorders, or medical weight management concerns.  The potency of that shame has a cruel way of chipping away at the most basic elements of common life; destabilizing bodies health and well-being, relationships, self-care, even the potentiality of joy.  While providers can often objectively parse causal or correlative elements within patient's own lives, what happens when the focus of the stigma comes from the other side of the couch? That is, what happens when WE are the ones with bias?  Participants will discuss the importance of bias awareness, bias acknowledgement as well as the effects of their acknowledgements in clinicial care settings.

3:50  Wrap up & Evaluations

4:00 Farewell

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The Eating Disorder Network of Maryland Wishes                         to Thank Our Event Partners: