About this course

Learning Objectives

• Identify 5 eating disorder symptoms beyond weight change.
• Identify how a lack of education of eating disorders can trigger increased eating disorder behavior, stigma, and prevent access to care and treatment.
• Explain why a multidisciplinary team is imperative to ED care and treatment.
• List 3 strategies to being mindful with comments and language when speaking to someone with an eating disorder and/ or eating disorder history.
• Identify 3 signs and symptoms that someone with an eating disorder needs more support/ treatment.
• List 3 actions healthcare professions can do to make their clinical practice more eating disorder informed.

Learning Levels

• All Levels

Target Audience

Course Instructor(s)

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  Kate Funk, LMFT, CEDS-C

  Outpatient Therapist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Consultant

  Kate is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a certified eating disorder specialist and consultant. Kate works virtually in the states of NJ, PA, and TX. With over a decade of clinical experience, as well as her own lived experience recovering from an eating disorder, Kate has dedicated her career to the treatment and understanding of eating disorders. Kate has worked in treatment centers all over the country and trained at some of the country’s top eating disorder institutions and is passionate about helping individuals recover and supporting clinicians in the understanding and treatment of eating disorders.

Disclosure

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