What you'll learn
- Participants will be able to identify factors to improve treatment outcomes for eating disorder clients.
- Participants will gain a clearer understanding of attachment theory.
- Participants will learn how to prepare eating disorder clients for treatment and potential trauma resolution.
- Participants will learn about different assessment measures to increase efficacy of treatment.
- Participants will be able to identify stages for treating complex cases involving eating disorders and trauma.
- Participants will be able to identify several factors that contribute to eating disorders.
Requirements
- No prerequisites
Description
The session will begin with an overview of eating disorders and attachment theory, followed by a discussion on how trauma is related to the development of eating disorders with an emphasis on the role attachment trauma plays in the epidemiology of eating disorders. The last section will illustrate the steps necessary to prepare a client who suffers from trauma, attachment ruptures, and eating disorder symptomology for treatment. This section will include techniques for self-regulation, safety and stabilization, and psychoeducation. The session will conclude with an overview of potential next steps and treatment prioritization.
Who this course is for:
- mental health professionals, medical professionals, parents, paraprofessionals
Course content
- 00:13Welcome
- 00:52Module 1: Overview of Eating Disorders
- Preview41:03
- 13 questionsModule 1: Overview of Eating Disorders
- 00:33Module 2: Overview of Attachment Theory.
- Preview32:09
- 13 questionsModule 2: Overview of Attachment Theory.
- 00:34Module 3: Attachment Styles.
- Preview25:30
- 16 questionsModule 3: Attachment Styles.
- 00:22Module 4: The Relationship Between Attachment and Trauma
- Preview18:24
- 10 questionsModule 4: The Relationship Between Attachment and Trauma
- 00:36Module 5: Trauma’s Relationship to Eating Disorders
- 34:51Module 5: Trauma’s Relationship to Eating Disorders
- 18 questionsModule 5: Trauma’s Relationship to Eating Disorders
- 00:40Module 6: The Way the Nervous System Works
- 23:33Module 6: The Way the Nervous System Works
- 19 questionsModule 6: The Way the Nervous System Works
- 00:24Module 7: Interoception
- 25:47Module 7: Interoception
- 12 questionsModule 7: Interoception
- 00:35Module 8: How to Address the Root and Self-Regulate
- 49:55Module 8: How to Address the Root and Self-Regulate
- 15 questionsModule 8: How to Address the Root and Self-Regulate
- 01:15Congratulations on the successful completion of the training
Instructor
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Dr. Robert Rhoton, CEO of Arizona Trauma Institute and President at the Trauma Institute International possesses a rich history of experience in the mental health field. Dr. Rhoton has supervised multiple outpatient clinics, juvenile justice programs, and intensive outpatient substance abuse programs for adolescents, day treatment programs for youth and children, adult offender programs and child and family therapeutic services. Additionally, Dr. Rhoton has advanced training in child and adolescent trauma treatment, family therapy, and family trauma. Dr. Rhoton served as president of the Arizona Trauma Therapy Network from 2010 through 2012. Dr. Rhoton was a Professor at Ottawa University in the Behavioral Sciences and Counseling Department whose primary interests were training counselors to work with traumagenic family dynamics, child and family trauma, and non-egoic models of treatment. Dr. Rhoton is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and collaborates and consults with numerous Arizona agencies fine tuning their understanding of trauma and the impact of developmental trauma on the individual and family. Dr. Rhoton has served on the Arizona Department of Health Services Trauma Informed Care (TIC) task force, currently is on a SAMHSA Technical Assistance committee working with trauma and education. Dr. Rhoton also works with Arizona State Epidemiologists around the identifying of concrete markers and the predictive nature of public health impact of early developmental trauma on Arizona children.
Dr. Rhoton's most recent publication can be found in the July 2017 Journal of Counseling and Development titled; Trauma Competency: An Active Ingredients Approach to Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.