This is a 2-day webinar. Day 1: Wednesday, 9/30/26, 10am-12:30pm; Day 2: Wednesday, 10/7/26, 10am-12:30pm. Attendees must attend both days to receive a certificate for continuing education credits. This topic is offered as a 2-day webinar. This webinar is designed to introduce and enhance the repertoire of skills and techniques in the treatment of food and eating related issues. Behaviors and symptoms will be examined along the continuum from normal eating through disordered eating and on to eating disorders. Through participatory activities attendees will examine the many different, often hidden, meanings of food and explore the underlying dynamics of eating behaviors. Skills such as decoding, mindful eating, detailed inquiry and expanding the view of the behavior and identifying triggers, will be introduced and practiced. Participants will learn how to decode and reframe the food language into the authentic, relevant, underlying issues. Attendees must attend both days to receive a certificate of completion. [Required for Eating Disorders Clinical Certificate Program]
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate between normal eating, disordered eating and eating disorders.
- Explain hidden meanings of fat and thin
- Identify different dynamics of eating such as dieting, bingeing, and compulsive eating and overeating and the purposes they serve
- Summarize techniques such as mindful eating, fantasy exploration, self- soothing, free association and ultimately the detailed inquiry