Sept. 6, 2019
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Jessica Setnick, MS, RD, CEDRD-S

Jessica has one of the most recognizable names in our field. You may know her from her signature workshop, Eating Disorders Boot Camp, or for one of her eating disorder pocket guides, or you may be a part of IFEDD, the organization she founded for eating disorder dietitians. Jessica has been in the eating disorder treatment field for 21 years, having worked in all levels of care as well as training thousands of professionals. Her latest creation is a speaking guide for dietitians. 

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Beyond FBT: Expanding Our Definition of  “Family” to Promote & Protect Eating Disorder Recovery

Summary 

Because eating disorders often thrive in isolation, recovery can be facilitated by attachment and connection. Yet in many cases, those surrounding the individual with an eating disorder have their own wounds, both related and unrelated to the disease, and also deserve the support and resources needed to heal. For many of our patients, “family of origin” or “nuclear family” are unfamiliar concepts that have been replaced by “families of choice,” including romantic partners, roommates, step-families, foster parents, co-workers,  sponsors, peers, and others. This presentation will discuss how to engage the key players in each patient’s larger community and how to enlist them in supporting recovery, even when they are not physically present. 

Objectives

• Explain the importance of a social support system in treatment and recovery protection, and adapt treatment models that were developed for use with a nuclear family to the current reality of co-habitants, adult children, step-families, siblings, co-workers, sponsors, roommates, teammates, and others. 
• Address the fears of conflict that motivate us as professionals to resist reaching out to families, and describe how our courage in the face of potential rejection can role-model recovery for our patients. 
• Describe strategies for interacting with family members who are discouraged, resistant, angry or not physically present and explain why this contributes to recovery.

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Riley Nickols, PhD, CEDS

Riley Nickols, PhD, CEDS is a counseling and sport psychologist who specializes in treating athletes with eating disorders.  He is the Director of the Victory Program, the nation’s first intensive eating disorder treatment facility for athletes, at McCallum Place in St. Louis, Missouri.  Dr. Nickols obtained an MS in Sport Psychology from Ithaca College in addition to an MS in Counseling Psychology and a PhD in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University.  He regularly speaks to athletes, coaches, and sports medicine personnel about disordered eating and unbalanced exercise in sport.  Additionally, Dr. Nickols consults with eating disorder professionals on best practices for integrating exercise during treatment.  Dr. Nickols maintains a private practice in St. Louis where he primarily works with athletes addressing both clinical and performance concerns.  He is sensitive to the unique demands of recovery in relation to training and competing in sport.  Dr. Nickols’ research has examined the relationship between self-confidence and anxiety among athletes before and after competition and has focused on the psychological experiences of athletes returning to competition after experiencing an injury.  In addition to competing in endurance sports for over 15 years, Dr. Nickols is a running coach and a USA Triathlon coach.

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Untangling Complexities in the Treatment of Athletes with Eating Disorders

Summary

Eating disorders are a complex and multifaceted psychiatric illness, requiring specific attunement and knowledge to effectively address particularly when it occurs within the sport environment.  Providers need to be especially sensitive and responsive to some frequent challenges when working with athletes during eating disorder treatment.  This presentation will overview best practices to identify and treat athletes with disordered eating and unbalanced exercise.  Recommendations will be discussed specific to coordinating care with an athlete’s sport family and considerations will be given for integrating sport training into an athlete’s treatment.

Objectives

Following this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Anticipate and respond to specific challenges that both athletes and providers are likely to encounter across levels of care.
• Recognize and implement specific treatment targets and interventions to support and facilitate an athlete’s eating disorder treatment.
• Understand how to leverage an individual’s sport and identity as an athlete throughout treatment.
• Better navigate challenges communicating with colleges, coaches, and athletic staff during and after an athlete’s ED treatment.
• Understand guidelines for assessing an athlete’s physical and psychological readiness to return to training during treatment.

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Samuel S. Lample, MA, LPC, CED-S is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Approved Counselor Supervisor, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS), CEDS Supervisor and an International OCD Foundation member and approved therapist. He is the owner/Executive Director of Thrive Therapy and has been treating individuals with eating disorders and OCD for the past 19 years in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Mr. Lample worked in an inpatient eating disorder treatment center for nearly a decade, as a therapist, Clinical Director and finally as the Director of Admissions. During this time, he also led the development of the nation’s first adolescent, male specific, inpatient eating disorder program. Sam is passionate about teaching the new generation of therapists and has been an LPC Supervisor since 2008. He is also certified by the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP) to train & supervise individuals towards their Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Certification (CEDS). Sam also owns and directs Thrive Recovery, a Partial Hospitalization & Intensive Outpatient Eating Disorder Program.

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Lee Neagle, MA, LPC , is the co-founder and chief operating officer of Certa Scientia Consulting and a licensed professional counselor in the state of Wisconsin. Lee has fifteen years of experience with eating disorder treatment on a national scale, heading up and creating programs at treatment facilities across the country. He has lectured nationally for the last several years on a wide range of topics including eating disorder awareness/identification, shame, perfectionism, and identification of values. Clinically, Lee is interested in helping clients identify and engage in a life that is meaningful and fulfilling using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.He is an active lobbyist on Capitol Hill, as an advocate for eating disorder treatment and previously served on the board of directors of the Residential Eating Disorder Consortium. Lee graduated from Lakeland University in Sheboygan, Wisconsin with a bachelor’s in psychology and completed his master’s in clinical psychology at Cardinal Strict University in Milwaukee, WI. Lee received his formal training in eating disorder care at Rodgers Memorial Hospital in Oconomowoc, WI.

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ACT Informed Therapy: Incorporating Experiential Techniques into the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Summary

Jennifer Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED is the Founder and Medical Director of the Gaudiani Clinic. Board Certified in Internal Medicine, she completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard, medical school at Boston University School of Medicine, and her internal medicine residency and chief residency at Yale. From 2008 to 2016, she was one of the leaders of the ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders at Denver Health. She left after serving as its Medical Director to found the Gaudiani Clinic, which provides superb in-person and nationwide telemedicine outpatient medical care to patients of all genders with eating disorders and disordered eating and to those in recovery. The Gaudiani Clinic is a HAES®-informed provider and embraces treating people of all shapes and sizes. Through a collaborative, communicative, multi-disciplinary approach, the Clinic cares for the whole person, in the context of their values. 

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First Do No Harm: Ethical Considerations in Treating Eating Disorders

Summary

Objectives

By the end of the presentation, attendees will:

• Discuss telemedicine care as it is evolving for those with eating disorders
• Discuss the ethical considerations of palliative care for individuals with eating disorders.
• Identify symptoms of both measurable and unmeasurable medical issues that pertain to outpatients with eating disorders.
• Feel confident recognizing appropriate (and inappropriate) workup and management of these issues as a therapist or dietitian, keeping an eye on whether patient’s medical problems are being adequately addressed, or as a provider seeking to take better care of this patient population directly.
• Communicate findings and contextualize medical issues effectively to optimize the recovery process, whether on an ongoing basis as an outpatient provider, or in referral to a higher level of care.
• Understand better practices for patients traditionally underserved in eating disorder care models

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