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Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is a novel, transdiagnostic approach to family and caregiver involvement in mental health treatment.  One of the core modules of Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is emotion-coaching, which can be used by the clinician in individual sessions in addition to being taught to parents and caregivers.  Emotion coaching has the capacity to transform the overt and underlying emotions fueling problematic thoughts and behaviors.  This transformation and processing of emotions can create more forward movement for your clients…

For the past 30 years, eating disorders have been represented as a white, middle-class phenomenon. Although studies have indicated Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) have similar if not higher rates of eating disorders, BIPOC communities continue to face invisibility ranging from inaccessible treatment, culturally insensitive practices in medical settings and undiagnosed eating disorders due to the belief that eating disorders don’t exist within BIPOC communities.

Avoidant (or ‘picky’) eating in childhood is a very common challenge, affecting approximately 25% of children. Dietitians and nutritionists often find parents of these children coming to their offices. Food avoidance can be a difficult area for professionals to navigate because it covers a vast range of presentations, from developmentally normal neophobia to ARFID.  In this presentation, we will be discussing recent work (Cormack, Rowell & Postavaru, 2020) on the role of the three ‘basic needs’ proposed by Self-determination theory…

In this two hour training, participants will develop a basic understanding of Somatics as a path towards body liberation. Our bodies are places where we learn, communicate, feel for dignity, come to know safety, and experience belonging. They are also sites of shaping from systems of oppression and domination that have led us to sometimes have tenuous relationships with our embodied selves.

In this webinar, participants will develop an understanding of how harm reduction can play an integral role in the healing and recovery from eating disorders. Participants will also learn about how treatment interfering behaviour can show up in the therapeutic relationship in both providers and clients, and challenge their ideas of success and motivation in therapy. Participants will also gain knowledge on how to engage useful strategies to minimize anxiety during the treatment process, and use harm reductive language to…

We commonly believe that fat stigma developed in our culture as a result of medical findings linking overweight to ill-health. But, what if I told you that fatphobia has existed for two centuries – preceding even the professionalization of medicine? In this talk, I will present my findings on the origin of fatphobia, show how and why it hurts women the most, and explore if monitoring BMI and losing weight are effective health management options. Learning Objectives: Following this presentation,…