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The treatment for eating disorders requires understanding their associated underlying issues, physiology and behaviors. Learn how to make a differential diagnosis by identifying Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders criteria for eating disorders, how to evaluate the intensity of a disorder as a precursor to making treatment recommendations and how to apply various treatment options. Make detailed assessments by discovering the depth and intensity of the disorder and its associated behaviors, employing the proper referrals, understanding the dangers and damage already done, and assessing the potential for future damage.
Course Outline
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Course Objectives
- Make a differential diagnosis by identifying criteria of DSM-5-defined eating disorders.
- Evaluate the intensity of a disorder as a precursor to making treatment recommendations.
- Display a knowledge of various available treatment options.
- Make appropriate referrals, and understand existing damages and potential for future damage.
- Understand the lethal potential of eating-disorder illnesses, and refer to the proper level of treatment for the stage of the disorder.
What You Learn
- Signs and symptoms of the various types of eating disorder, including the new categories and subcategories
- Differential diagnosis and co-existing diagnoses such as substance abuse, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, personality disorders and psychosis
- Assessment tools, including history taking, testing instruments and medical information, as well as eating disorder inventory, Beck's depressive scale, MIMPI and medical tests
- Medical symptomology
- Etiology and familial patterns
- Treatment options in individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, medical hospitalization, intensive outpatient therapy and residential treatment
How You Learn
- PowerPoint slides
- Handouts
- Detailed assessment tool
- In-class discussion