Food Trauma: What If It Is About the Food?: IAEDP Symposium 2011

About the Course:

Webinar from the 2011 International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Symposium.

This workshop will explore the topic of food trauma. Food trauma will be both defined and explored as seen in intensive treatment settings from both psychological and nutritional backgrounds. Trauma with foods/feeding, physical traumas involving food, trauma associations with food, and food itself as trauma will all be discussed. The presentation will explore if, when, and how to re-introduce foods involved in or associated with traumatic experiences. Approaches and interventions used in a residential and partial hospitalization program will be reviewed and examples given. Attendees will also participate in an experiential activity and given practical tips for practice.

1. Introduction 2. Trauma with Food/Feeding 1. Force Feeding 2. Animal Cruelty/Farming 3. Trash/Garbage 4. Clean plate Club 5. Food as love 6. Not feeding as love 3. Trauma with Food / Physical 1. Sexual acts using food 2. Physical acts using food 3. Trauma associations with Food 1. Sexual i. Dairy/white foods ii. Falic iii. Sensory 1. Trash/Garbage 2. Feces 3. Vomit Consuming ii. Fear of vomiting 1. Transition i. Baby utensils 1. Food as Trauma 2. Food = Weight Gain 3. Food = Debting 4. Feeding approaches in treatment history 5. To Challenge or Not to Challenge 1. Excluding Foods 2. Re-Introducing Foods i.Assess impact on lifestyle with and without ii. Appropriateness for re-introduction iii. Mindful Eating work iv. Normalization Mindful Eating Group Activity

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This course is based on the , Food Trauma: What If It Is About the Food?: IAEDP Symposium 2011 created by Amanda C. Mellowspring, MS, RD, LD/N and Melissa A. McLain, Ph.D.

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Recommended For:

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, therapists, and counselors who seek to update their research knowledge and competency in treating patients with eating disorders, increase and acquire new skills, learn new intervention strategies, and obtain continuing education credits. It is appropriate for professionals at all levels of knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. Following this presentation, participants will be able to identify, utilize and explain at least 4 different types of food trauma.

2. Following this presentation, participants will be able to identify, utilize and explain the impact that food trauma can have on a patient’s ability to normalize their food behaviors.

3. Following this presentation, participants will be able to identify, utilize and explain how to assess a patient’s needs, willingness, and readiness to re-introduce foods indicated in a traumatic experience.