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Module 1: EMDR and Eating Disorders

Course
Virtual
6 CE Hours
Clinical

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Description

 On day 1, we will cover the following:

  • – Types and kinds of disordered eating patterns we call eating disorders (DSM V)
  • – The connection between trauma, disordered eating, and body image
  • – Review the Adaptive Information Processing model 
  • – Understand affect tolerance, emotional avoidance, and dissociation with eating disorders.
Target Audience
  • • Social Worker
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Counselor
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify 3 elements common in clinically diagnosed eating disorders.

  • Apply an understanding of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model to create a treatment plan for working with clients with eating disorders.

  • List the 8-phases of EMDR Therapy.

  • Identify 3 state change exercises that can be used in the preparation phase to prepare people with eating disorders to do EMDR.

References

  • Bloomgarden, A., & Calogero, R.M. (2008). A randomized experimental test of efficacy EMDR treatment on negative body image in eating disorder inpatients. Eating Disorders, 16, 418-427. Doi:10.1080/10640260802370598.

  • Mitchell, K., Mazzeo, S., Schlesinger, M., Brewerton, T., Smith, B. (2012). Comorbidity of partial and subthreshold PTSD among men and women with eating disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication Study. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 45, 307-315.

  • Seubert, A. & Virdi, P. (Eds.) (2024) Trauma Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders (2nd ed.). Springer.

  • Smyth, J., Heron, K., Wonderlich, St., Crosby, R., & Thompson, K. (2008). The influence of reported trauma and adverse events on eating disturbance in young adults. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 41(3), 195–202.

  • Tagay, S., Schlegl, S., Senf, W. (2010). Traumatic events, posttraumatic stress symptomatology and somatoform symptoms in eating disorder clients. European Eating Disorders Review, 18, 2, 124–132

Clinical
Social Worker

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 6 General continuing education credits.

Marriage & Family Therapist

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Counselor

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Ethical and Professional Development, Legal

CE Policy
TPN.health and this educator have no conflicts of interest and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents.
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DaLene Forester, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, CEDS-S, EMDRIA Trainer

DaLene Forester, PhD, has been Licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist since 1996 and as a Professional Clinical Counselor since 2013 in California. She maintains a private practice specializing in the consultation and treatment of PTSD, Eating Disorders, and Anxiety Disorders. Dr. Forester is EMDR certified, an EMDRIA-approved consultant, an EMDR Therapy Trainer, and a Past-President of the EMDR International Association.

In 2007, Dr. Forester founded the Advanced Education Institute, where she loves to provide interactive clinical training to Mental Health professionals in EMDR Therapy, Clinical Supervision, Clinical Treatment of Eating Disorders, and more.

Dr. Forester has presented professionally at the AAMFT, EMDRIA, EMDR Canada, and Western Psychological Association (WPA) Conferences. She has two chapters published in EMDR Solutions II, R Shapiro (ed.), W.W. Norton & Company, 2009, and one published in Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders, A. Seubert and P. Virdi (ed.) Springer Publishing Company, LLC, 2019.

Lauren Kiser, PhD, LPC-S, CEDS-S, EMDRIA Trainer

Lauren Kiser specializes in the treatment of trauma, dissociative disorders, eating disorders, and substance use disorders. She has many years of experience treating complex issues in the inpatient, residential, PHP & outpatient level of care. Lauren is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Supervisor, a Certified EMDR Therapist, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and an Adult Complex Trauma & Dissociation Specialist. She utilizes EMDR therapy to treat trauma, anxiety disorders, addictive behaviors, and other life issues interfering with one’s well-being.

Lauren obtained a BA in Psychology at Texas Tech University where she was the lead research assistant in a Correctional Research Lab. Lauren obtained her MS from Lubbock Christian University and received the second highest score on the national comprehensive exam. She developed an eating disorder program for those suffering with co-occurring substance use disorders.

She has held the role of Clinical Director at treatment facilities (Inpatient, Residential, PHP, and IOP) and completed her doctorate degree focusing on addictive disorders and therapist’s competency to treat eating disorders. Many therapists call on her for advanced trauma training and consultation for her various specializations.

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