About this course

Learning Objectives

• Gain basic familiarity with DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for multiple eating disorders, along with modern associated critiques for further consideration.
• Gain basic familiarity with multiple ED screening and assessment tools that consider specific marginalized identities and experiences.
• Identify a wide range of ED comorbidities and risk factors in individuals as it relates to systemic and social determinants of health.
• Gain basic familiarity with common treatment levels, modalities, and interdisciplinary providers available for ED's.
• Identify systemic, interpersonal, and internalized barriers that limit access to healing from ED's.

Learning Levels

• Beginner

Course Instructor(s)

• Eunice Feng

  Capacity Building Program Manager at Project HEAL

  Eunice Feng (she/they) is the former Treatment Access Program Manager and current Capacity Building Program Manager at Project HEAL, a nonprofit organization committed to equitable access to eating disorder healing. In their time with Project HEAL, they developed the Treatment Access Equity Matrix, an equity-based model to assess available opportunities for treatment placement, and created identity-affirming eating disorder training curriculum for behavioral health professionals to encourage equity-based treatment in practice.

References

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• Lock, J., & Le Grange, D. (2018). Family-based treatment: Where are we and where should we be going to improve recovery in child and adolescent eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 52(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22980
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• Longhurst, P., & Clark, L. (2022). Integrating the Autistic Experience Into Existing Models for Disordered Eating. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.926415
• Trottier, K., MacDonald, D.E. Update on Psychological Trauma, Other Severe Adverse Experiences and Eating Disorders: State of the Research and Future Research Directions. Curr Psychiatry Rep 19, 45 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-017-0806-6
• Brewerton, T. D. (2019). An Overview of Trauma-Informed Care and Practice for Eating Disorders. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 28(4), 445–462. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2018.1532940
• Blodgett Salafia, E.H., Jones, M.E., Haugen, E.C. et al. Perceptions of the causes of eating disorders: a comparison of individuals with and without eating disorders. J Eat Disord 3, 32 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-015-0069-8
• Kutz, A.M., Marsh, A.G., Gunderson, C.G. et al. Eating Disorder Screening: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Characteristics of the SCOFF. J GEN INTERN MED 35, 885–893 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05478-6
• Duffy, M. E., Calzo, J. P., Lopez, E., Silverstein, S., Joiner, T. E., & Gordon, A. R. (2021). Measurement and construct validity of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire Short Form in a transgender and gender diverse community sample. Psychological Assessment, 33(5), 459–463. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000996
• Ben-Porath, D., Duthu, F., Luo, T., Gonidakis, F., Compte, E. J., & Wisniewski, L. (2020). Dialectical behavioral therapy: an update and review of the existing treatment models adapted for adults with eating disorders. Eating Disorders, 28(2), 101–121. https://doi.org/10.1080/10640266.2020.1723371