Eating Disorders & Obesity: Help Clients Take Back Their Lives

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• Neuroscience, evolution and role of famine
• New interventions for overcoming the anorexic mind
• Evidence-based treatments for bulimia and binging
• Case studies, experiential exercises
• Strategies to develop & maintain regular eating habits
• Innovative steps to positive body image
• Psychotropic medications

This seminar presents a healing approach to understanding and treating problems with food and eating. Recognized eating disorders expert Shan Guisinger, Ph.D., will provide interventions and new techniques for obesity, anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder.

Many of today’s eating problems are the result of activating our bodies’ various adaptations to famine in the evolutionary past. When clients understand why and how bodies foil their attempts to eat normally they can more easily give up counterproductive behaviors and judgmental attitudes. You will bring home new strategies rooted in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and mindfulness.

Dr. Guisinger has more than 28 years of practicing clinical experience in eating disorders. She completed postdoctoral work at the eating disorders clinic at Yale University. Shan speaks nationally on eating disorders, and her research work has been featured in several leading publications.

OUTLINE

How The Body Regulates Weight

• Opiates, dopamine, serotonin, and leptin
• Genetics and epigenetics
• Role of evolutionary adaptations to famine
• What has will power to do with it?

Obesity – Not An Eating Disorder

• How diets can cause weight gain
• Pima Indian epidemiology
• Fat acceptance, health at every size movements

Treatment:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Assertiveness training and mindful eating
• Medication: Why is there no magic pill?
• Bariatric surgery: Pros and cons

Anorexia Nervosa

• Surprise – not caused by vanity, control issues, or needs for autonomy
• Biological changes underlie symptoms
• Why the body is trying to migrate

Treatment:

• Specialized CBT: AN-Biopsychosocial Treatment (A-BPST)
• Motivational Interviewing techniques
• Medications
• Olanzepine
• Cannabis controversy

Bulimia Nervosa

• Purge drives the binge
• Animal studies

Treatment:

• CBT to normalize eating
• ACT and DBT to manage emotions
• Medications
• SSRIs
• Topamax

Binge Eating Disorder

• Minnesota Starvation Study

Treatment:

• Normalize eating; restructure thoughts with CBT, ACT, DBT
• Assertiveness training and empowerment
• Medication for depression, anxiety
• Letter from your body

OBJECTIVES

• List 4 different biological adaptations to famine that lead to eating disorders
• Explain the role of dieting in eating disorders and obesity
• Identify at least 3 misconceptions about obesity
• Provide strategies for developing good body image, eating and exercise habits for clients
• Recognize 4 common beliefs about the cause of eating disorders that are not evidence-based
• Demonstrate more than 8 proven techniques that help clients take their life back, utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and AN-Biopsychosocial Treatment (A-BPST)
• Effectively utilize 5 clinical techniques for bulimic and binge eating symptomatology

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Shan Guisinger, Ph.D. is a practicing clinical psychologist who has worked with eating disorders for 28 years. She was trained in evolutionary biology before receiving a doctorate in clinical psychology from UC Berkeley and completing postdoctoral work at Yale University’s Eating Disorders Clinic and Department of Psychiatry. Shan maintains a private practice in Missoula, Montana and is a faculty affiliate the University of Montana in Missoula.

Dr. Guisinger synthesizes research from the biological and social sciences with clinical experience from her practice. She has published major theoretical articles on evolution and psychology in The American Psychologist and Psychological Review. Her revolutionary theory of anorexia nervosa, the Adapted-to-Flee-Famine Hypothesis, was highlighted in the American Psychological Association’s newsmagazine, The Monitor.

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