April 3-6, 2025
Live In-Person location:  Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

This course will cover all you need to know to recognize, assess, refer, and treat eating disorders in your practice. We will start with an overview of eating disorders, with special emphasis on how to recognize eating disorders within anxiety, depression, OCD, and PTSD populations. We will review how to comprehensively assess eating disorders, including identifying severity and the appropriate level of treatment care needed. We will discuss when to treat eating disorders and disordered eating and when to refer to eating disorder specialty providers.

The second half of the course will cover overviews of specific evidence-based treatments for eating disorders and include role play and discussion. We will discuss family-based therapy for adolescents, cognitive-behavior therapy enhanced for adult eating disorders, and third-wave treatments including dialectical behavior therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. Finally, we will spend time learning new evidence-based treatments for eating disorders using exposure therapy focused on eating disorder fears. We will also discuss new advances in digital personalized treatment therapeutics that can be integrated into active practices.

Presenter Bio:

Dr. Cheri A. Levinson, Ph.D.

Dr. Cheri Levinson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Louisville and Director of the Eating Anxiety Treatment (EAT) lab. She is also the Founder of the Louisville Center for Eating Disorders, which is the only eating disorder specialty clinic in the state of KY, where she treats patients, and supervises and trains other clinicians and students in evidence-based treatments for eating disorders. Currently Dr. Levinson is Vice Chair of the KY Eating Disorder Council, which is a state sponsored council charged with improving eating disorder treatment and access to treatment in KY.

Dr. Levinson’s research focuses on building new treatments for eating disorders, primarily using new technologies. To do this work she uses advanced analytics and technologies, such as individual network analysis, ecological momentary assessment, and wearable sensor technologies. Dr. Levinson has published more than 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts and chapters and has been the primary investigator on several national grants and awards (7 currently funded grants from the National Institute of Mental Health), including four active clinical trials tested exposure therapy and personalized treatments for eating disorders. She has received several awards for her work including the 2023 Society for Science of Clinical Psychology Early Research 2023 SSCP Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Early Career Award, 2021 Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award, 2020 American Psychological Association Theo Blau Award, and the Academy for Eating Disorders 2015 Outstanding Scientific Contribution Award.

Dr. Levinson’s clinical works focuses on the treatment of adults, adolescents, and children with eating disorders. She specializes in the treatment of comorbid disorders (eating disorders, OCD and anxiety disorders) using empirically supported cognitive-behavioral techniques. Dr. Levinson has worked in all levels of eating disorder care, including outpatient, partial-hospitalization, residential, and inpatient care.

Before moving home to Louisville, Dr. Levinson trained at the University of North Carolina Center of Excellence in Eating Disorders (CEED). While at CEED, she trained in cognitive behavioral therapies, dialectical behavior therapy, family based therapy for adolescents with anorexia nervosa, acceptance and commitment therapy, and mindfulness therapies for eating disorders. Dr. Levinson was a post-doctoral fellow at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, where she developed technology based treatments for eating disorders. She completed her clinical internship at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She received her Master’s and Doctoral degrees in the psychology department at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology and history at the University of Kentucky.

Timeline:

April 3-6, 2025

Day 1

9:00am-10:30am        Discuss an overview of eating disorders and disordered eating and how to recognize these symptoms in your practice.

10:30am-10:45am      Break

10:45am-12:15pm      Review comprehensive assessment of eating disorders, including assessment of behavioral, cognitive, affective, physiological, nutritional, and medical symptoms.

Day 2

9:00am-10:30am        Review how to determine severity of eating disorders and appropriate levels of care, with education on the spectrum of eating disorder care and interdisciplinary eating disorder specialty care. Discuss when to refer and when to treat.

10:30am-10:45am      Break

10:45am-12:15pm      Overview and discussion of current evidence-based treatments for eating disorders. Information and role plays on family-based therapy for adolescents.

Day 3

9:00am-10:30am        We will discuss and role-play the provision of cognitive-behavior therapy enhanced for adult eating disorders.

10:30am-10:45am      Break

10:45am-12:15pm      Third-wave treatments, including dialectical behavior therapy, radically open dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and mindful eating will be discussed. Role plays will be used to develop these therapeutic skills.

Day 4

9:00am-10:30am        Education on the implementation of Exposure Therapy for eating disorders will be reviewed.

10:30am-10:45am      Break

10:45am-12:15pm      Role plays on exposure will solidify learning. New research and discussion of digital therapeutics for virtual eating disorder exposures and data-based personalized treatment will be discussed.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

• Identify and detect eating disorders and disordered eating in your practice.
• Demonstrate how to comprehensively assess for eating disorders..
• Determine severity and appropriate level of treatment for eating disorder care.
• Identify when to refer our and when to treat eating disorders and disordered eating.
• Describe family-based therapy for adolescent eating disorders.
• Practice and learn about cognitive-behavioral therapy enhanced for eating disorders.
• Discuss third wave treatments for eating disorders.
• Summarize and practice exposure therapy for eating disorders.

 To register for this in-person workshop please visit:  ebtrainingsolutions.com/register/fe7e7438446d6c5a5a2f04b4ed47e07e

This course content is based on a publication that has been peer-reviewed, the scientific standard for evaluating academic work. All studies and scientifically derived evidence have limitations that should be considered. If you have any questions about the accuracy or limitations of the content, please contact us at support@ce-classes.com and we will get back to you.

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