
January 2021
Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder: Breaking down effective treatment for a complex client
Understanding and addressing this complex disorder can make treating these clients less overwhelming.
Find out more »January Round Table with Angela Goens, MS, RDN, LD
Join us for our monthly members-only case consult peer/professional supervision call. We will discuss your client cases.
Find out more »February 2021
Dear Provider, I’m Fat and Sick. Can I Trust You to Treat Me?
We’re currently experiencing a movement in our culture toward being more inclusive of marginalized individuals. However, there still remains a difference in the effectiveness of services that can be provided by someone identifying themselves as an ally versus someone with actual lived experience.
Find out more »Nutrition Care for Adults with ADHD and Disordered Eating
Eating disorders among people with ADHD is much higher than in the general population. ADHD is a specialty population that does not fit into the more traditional and neurotypical models of eating disorder assessments, diagnostic tools, and treatment approaches.
Find out more »March 2021
The Ethics of a Collaborative Eating Disorder Treatment Team
Eating disorders are complex illnesses causing changes to both the brain and the body. It is for this reason a specialized team of professionals is necessary for successful treatment outcomes. How effectively this team communicates can dramatically influence the quality of treatment provided by the team and the outcomes for individual clients. Unfortunately, there is no standard on how communication is performed between the treatment team, though a team approach is considered best practices by the Academy of Nutrition and…
Find out more »Managing Common GI Disorders in Clients with Eating Disorders
This webinar will explore the connection between eating disorders and the most common gastrointestinal disorders among eating disorder clients, specifically IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) and gastroparesis.
Find out more »March Round Table with Marci Evans, MS, CEDRD-S, LDN, cPT
Join us for our monthly members-only case consult peer/professional consultation call. We will discuss your client cases with guest expert Marci Evans, MS, CEDRD-S, LDN, cPT. Please submit your case in advance, before March 18th, by emailing a short summary and your question/s to info@edrdpro.com. All members are welcome to submit a case and to join us for the discussion hour. Marci Evans Bio: Marci identifies as a Food and Body Imager Healer®. She has dedicated her career to…
Find out more »April 2021
Nutrient Power for the Brain: Inclusion, Not Exclusion, in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Many people are skeptical about the role of nutrition and mental health. Truth be told, and proven by several research studies, nutrient deficiencies and imbalances adversely affect the way we think and feel. Dietary intake and nutritional status of individuals are highly important factors affecting mental health and the development of psychiatric disorders, such as eating disorders, anxiety, and depression. Without balanced nutrition, the brain cannot adequately communicate with the rest of the body which, among other things, greatly affects…
Find out more »April Round Table with Meghan Watson, M.A., RP
We will discuss your client cases with guest expert Meghan Watson, M.A., RP.
Find out more »May 2021
Eating Disorders and Disability: What You Need to Know
Eating disorders among people with disabilities are a quiet, serious problem. Historical and current devaluation of people with disabilities has led to a lack of focus on the importance of disability as lived by disabled people. This is a major, ongoing cause of internalized body and disability hatred in the disability community. When eating disorders are discussed by disabled people, it is often mostly with other disabled people. While this can create invaluable support that provides emotional safety, dominant ideas…
Find out more »Using the Plate-by-Plate Approach in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
There are several methods currently being used for nutritional rehabilitation in eating disorder treatment. In today’s session, we discuss the pros/cons of these methods and how the Plate-by-Plate approach is different. The Plate-by-Plate Approach uses only a plate as its backbone and does not require counting calories, measuring, or using exchanges. This approach is designed to treat all eating disorders, across all types of cultural cuisines and aids in weight restoration (if necessary), metabolic recovery, resumption of menses, and reversal…
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