Join a webinar and gain knowledge from an experts on eating disorders.
Parents can and should be involved in the eating disorder treatment of an adult child. The webinar will offer insight into the role of parents in treatment when their child is over 18 and will address questions such as:
Rachel Chagnon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist working in the adult PHP/IOP at the UC San Diego Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research. Rachel graduated with her BA in Psychology from Sonoma State University in and earned her MA in Marital and Family Therapy from the University of San Diego (USD). During her time at USD, Rachel completed her practicum at the UCSD CHEAR (Center for Health Eating and Activity Research) Clinic where she gained individual and family clinical experience working with patients across the lifespan with diagnoses of Binge Eating Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa, and ARFID. Rachel found that during her practicum year she gained a passion for working with adult patients who have a diagnosis of an eating disorder, and their families, and started working in the adult program at the UCSD Eating Disorders Center following her graduation from USD.
Rachel works with individuals, couples, and families at UCSD, and she coordinates the TFam (transitional family) programming for young adults and their families at the UCSD EDC. TFam is a multi-family group for young adults and their families to learn psychoeducation and support techniques for young adults in higher levels of care for EDs. This includes lessons and experiential activities on neurobiology of eating disorders, DBT skills, dietary, meal support, and more. In addition to EDs, Rachel has experience working with mood and anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and disorders of over-control. Rachel helps co-lead the Radically Open DBT (RO DBT) track in the adult program. Rachel is trained in CBT-E and FBT, and specializes in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and is passionate in assisting patients in creating their life worth living.
People recovered from an eating disorder and those caring for a loved one with an eating disorder say eating disorder recovery is one of the most difficult things they’ve ever done. Recovery is notoriously difficult and non-linear and involves lots of transitions, changes, evolutions, accomplishments, and setbacks. Staying on course, particularly while transitions in care are occurring, is one of the key elements of the eating disorder recovery journey. This talk will include helpful, actionable tips to staying on course, even when it’s incredibly difficult – and especially when things are improving. Learn how to support your loved one across the transition between levels of care and through recovery, with all its ups and downs and in-betweens. Persistence is one of the temperament traits that puts people at risk for an eating disorder, as well as one of the traits to be leaned on in recovery. Learn how to harness your persistence and your loved one’s too as you make your way through one of the hardest things you and your loved one will do.
Dr. Jillian Lampert is the Vice President, Communications and Brand for Accanto Health, the parent company of The Emily Program and Gather Behavioral Health. She has 30 years of experience in the field of eating disorders as a clinician, leader, speaker, advocate, and researcher in the field of eating disorders working across all levels of care and multiple care settings. Additionally, Dr. Lampert is Co-Founder and President of the REDC, the national consortium representing eating disorders care focused on treatment standards, best practices, access to care, and collaborative research and past Treasurer and current Board Member of the Eating Disorders Coalition, a DC-based national organization for eating disorders policy and advocacy. She holds an adjunct graduate faculty position in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota where she advises graduate students and teaches courses on eating disorder management.
Dr. Lampert has served on the Board of Directors of the Academy for Eating Disorders and as co-chair of the Academy for Eating Disorders Nutrition Special Interest Group. She is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders (FAED) and a member of the Academy for Nutrition and Dietetics, and BHN (Behavioral Health Nutrition) dietetic practice group.Â
One of her primary goals in life is to have young people and those that love them have confident, loving relationships with their bodies and themselves.
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Weight restoration is an essential component of eating disorder recovery. However, there is no consensus on how to set recovery weights. Research has often relied on reaching a BMI of at least 18.5 or using median 50% BMI. Given that many people with restrictive eating disorders never reach BMIs this low, this makes little sense. Using methods such as these may keep people genetically predestined to live in larger bodies in a state of chronic illness and/or vulnerable to relapse. It is imperative to consider an individual’s previous growth trajectories.
This team of a pediatric medical doctor and psychologist will teach a step-by-step method using individualized growth curves, mid-parental heights, and pubertal staging for estimating recovery weights. One participant (parent of teen) will be able to have their teen’s growth reviewed and used as an example. Other parents will learn how to use the method to help understand their own child’s growth trajectory and potential recovery weight.
Lauren Muhlheim, Psy.D., FAED, CEDS is a psychologist, fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), and certified eating disorder specialist (CEDS) and approved supervisor for the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP). She owns Eating Disorder Therapy LA in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Muhlheim is the author of When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder. Dr. Muhlheim has held leadership roles in several professional organizations including the AED, IAEDP, and the Los Angeles County Psychological Association. She has previously been an IAEDP core course instructor and provides training on eating disorders to mental health providers internationally. She is an advisor for F.E.A.S.T.
Dr. Rebecka Peebles is the Vice President of Adolescent Medicine at Monte Nido. She joined after 13 years at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, where she was an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, specializing in adolescent and young adult medicine. Â
Dr. Peebles is board-certified in pediatrics and further specialty certified in adolescent and young adult medicine, and served as the Director of Medical Research and Quality Innovations in the Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment Program at CHOP, which she co-founded in 2011. Her research has been funded by the NIH and the American Heart Association and has focused on medical evaluation, bone health, and biobehavioral links in youth with eating disorders.
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