Addiction Conferences and Continuing Educations for Mental Health Professionals with CE Credits for Eating Disorder, Sexual Addiction, Behavioral Mental Health Issues by the Ben Franklin Institute Nationwide.

 

ThursdayMay 13th, 2010

Treatment of Eating Disorders from Outpatient to Intensive Care: Medical, Psychiatric Interventions and Treatment Techniques

KEN WEINER, MD, EMMETT BISHOP, MD and PHILIP MEHLER, MD

9:30-5:00pm

This pre-conference workshop will bring more than 75 years of combined clinical experience to participants with the latest understanding of state-of-the-art treatment of patients with eating disorders. Philip Mehler, MD, CEDS, will discuss the medical complications, to be aware of, and how best to effectively and efficiently prevent and treat these problems. Ken Weiner, MD, CEDS, will review the latest co-morbidity information and discuss pharmacologic interventions and level of care implications. Finally, Emmett Bishop, Jr., MD, CEDS will integrate and assimilate the latest advances in understanding eating disorders into a cohesive cutting-edge treatment model with innovative treatment techniques including Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CRT).

FridayMay 14th, 2010

"Real Girls, Real Pressures: State of Self-Esteem Among Girls"

ANN KEARNEY-COOKE, PHD

8:30-10:15am

Armed to The Teeth: Evidence-Based Nutrition Approaches for Non-Nutritionists

MARCIA HERRIN, EdD, MPH, LD, RD

10:45-12:15pm

Integrative Approaches to Treating Patients with Eating Disorders

CAROLYN COKER ROSS, MD, MPH

Understanding and Treating Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa

ANN KEARNEY-COOKE, PHD

LUNCHEON PRESENTATION

Food Fairy Tales: Change the Stories You Tell About Food and Leave Your Clients Eating Happily Ever After

JESSICA SETNICK, MS, RD, CSSD

12:00 -1:15pm

Feeding the Spirit: Integrative Treatment of ED and Addictions

KRISTINE EMRY, LCSW

1:45-3:15pm

Eating Disorders and Personality Disorders: Complications and Strategies

JESSICA SETNICK, MS, RD, CSSD

Teaching Parents to Feed their Eating Disordered Child at Home Using Maudsley Techniques

MARCIA HERRIN, EdD, MPH, LD, RD

3:45-5:15pm

Dr. Herrin will recapitulate the three phases of the Maudsley method. In this workshop, the fundamentals of the Maudsley approach will be described, case examples will be provided, and the research will be reviewed. Participants will have opportunity to observe and to play a part in a coached meal experience, the cornerstone of the Maudsley approach.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: treating an Eating Disorder while Managing Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

LEAH LEONARD STECKLINE, PHD

This workshop will focus on the clinical presentation and treatment of patients with Type I diabetes mellitus and an eating disorder. Discussing the various behavioral manifestations we have encountered in patients with these two comorbid conditions. Also, I will outline the ways in which managing diabetes can exacerbate an already present eating disorder or increase the risk of developing one. Moreover, I will address how we have problem-solved the treatment difficulties involved in simultaneously managing the diabetes while challenging and blocking the eating disorder. I will highlight how clinicians can utilize their knowledge and skill of good eating disorder treatment as a solid foundation for their work with women who also have the chronic illness of Type I diabetes mellitus. Finally, I will share some pre-post data outcomes we have achieved with these patients on the variables of hemoglobin A1c, fructosamine, weight, and various scales of the EDI-3s

Men with Eating Disorders: Under-Diagnosed, Undertreated and Misunderstood

RAY LEMBERG, PHD

This presentation provides an overview of the dramatic rise in eating disorders among males in the last 10 years. Issues and dynamics that are male specific will be discussed as well as a new unique assessment instrument specifically for men that can be used in the treatment setting.

SaturdayMay 15th, 2010

Is Anorexia Nervosa an Eating Disorder? New Understanding of Puzzling Symptoms

WALTER KAYE, MD

8:30-10:00am

A Perfect Biopsychosocial Storm: Gender, Culture and Eating Disorders

MARGO MAINE, PHD, FAED

10:30-12:00pm

This presentation challenges the dominance of the medical or biogenetic model as simply too objective and too linear to answer the obvious questions: Why Women? and Why Now? It integrates what research and practice teach clinicians about the importance of gender in the development and progression of eating disorders and the ensuing implications for treatment.

Caloric Requirements and Food Choices for Restoration and Maintenance

WALTER KAYE, MD

Body Talk: Using Metaphor to Treat Body Image and Eating Disorders

ANITA JOHNSTON, PHD

The Weight Bearing Years: Eating Disorders & Body Image Despair in Adult Women

MARGO MAINE, PHD, FAED

1:15-2:45pm

Contemporary women experience unprecedented pressures, multiple roles and stressors, and unreasonable standards for perfection. The Body Myth falsely promises that control of weight, shape, and eating, will satisfy their needs and appetites, resulting in increased eating disorders. This workshop addresses the unique clinical issues and needs of adult women.

Increasing Structure in Outpatient Treatment of Anorexia, Bulimia and Compulsive Eating

MICHAEL BERRETT, PHD

Soul Hunger: Treating Eating Disorders with Imagery and Metaphor

ANITA JOHNSTON, PHD

Fathers, Daughters and Eating Disorders: What Hurts, Helps and Heals

MARGO MAINE, PHD, FAED

3:15-4:45pm

In his role as “first man” in a girl’s life, a father or stepfather sets the standard for male expectations, exerting a profound impact on his daughter’s body image and vulnerability for eating disorders. The ever-increasing appearance and performance expectations of today’s global girls create a cultural straight jacket limiting their options, their happiness and their health. Girls need their fathers’ support more than ever, yet men parent with severe limitations imposed by their own gender expectations, hurdles and understanding. This presentation explores the impact of this oft-neglected relationship on both daughter and dad, describes ways to engage fathers in eating disorders treatment, and demonstrates the role fathers have in changing cultural body image attitudes in the societal “body wars” undermining girls.

The Feminine Cycle: the Role of Menstruation in the Etiology and Treatment of ED

ANITA JOHNSTON, PHD

This workshop will explore the four major phases in a womans life in terms of four feminine archetyepes (maiden, mother, queen, crone) and explore the profound effect these archetypes have on women struggling with disordered eating and body image issues. Each archetype and corresponding phase with be discussed in relationship to anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.

The Mindful Eating Journey

DONALD ALTMAN, MA, LPC

This workshop shows how to engage clients in an inspiring and integrative view of food. You’ll explore the principles of mindful eating and discover what it means to eat mindfully.

SundayMay 16th, 2010

Food & Mood: When Food and Eating is a Problem in Life

RALPH CARSON, PHD, RD, LD

8:30-10:00am

Emotional eating plagues dietary adherence, triggers binges and may progress to an addiction. This presentation introduces a brain model of how mood and cravings are linked and provides solutions to alter this behavior.

Mindful Eating and the Brain

DONALD ALTMAN, MA, LPC

10:15-12:15pm

This workshop explains how brain science and the new field of interpersonal neurobiology blend with ancient mindfulness to rewire the brain, as well as old eating habits.

Life Without ED: How One Woman Declared Independence ™

JENNI SCHAEFER

Jenni Schaefer often says, "I have never been married, but I am happily divorced." In her talk, Life Without EdTM, Jenni reveals that she is "divorced" from her eating disorder. She explains the unique approach to eating disorder recovery that is described in her book, Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too. Treating her illness like a relationship --- rather than a condition --- Jenni actually named her eating disorder, Ed (an acronym for "eating disorder"). Throughout her recovery process, she separated from and ultimately divorced Ed. In Life Without EdTM, Jenni shares her personal struggle with anorexia and bulimia explaining how the illness began, how it was, and how she got help. She shares a lifetime of experience --- from struggles with body image at only four-years-old to the absolute freedom that she experiences today.

Advanced Clinical Training for Therapists and Counselors

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:

Ben Franklin Institute, producer of The Summit for Clinical Excellence Conference is the premiere provider of continuing education for behavioral health, mental health and addiction professionals. We bring together the best and brightest trainers from many disciplines offering a broader perspective; to help our therapists and counselors better address the issues that their client is facing day to day.

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES:

1. To identify specific diagnostic and treatment approaches, counseling skills and modalities that will be successfully applied to detect and diagnose anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, related eating disorders and clinical issues; and overweight/obesity.

2. To learn the symptoms and characteristics of the disorders mentioned in objective #1and how they have interfered with the clients’ interpersonal and family relationships.

3. To participate in skill building workshops and unique training that offer cognitive and experiential clinical techniques; to assist in patient/client recovery from these listed disorders.