Live Webinar "CBT-E Body Image Module" with Melissa Harrison, LCSW

Live CE Training with Melissa Harrison, LCSW

CBT-E Body Image Module

Body image disturbance is a core maintaining mechanism in many eating disorders and a central focus of Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E). This presentation provides an overview of the body image module in CBT-E, based on the work of Christopher Fairburn and Riccardo Dalle Grave. Attendees will learn how to identify and intervene on key maintaining behaviors such as body checking and avoidance, facilitate interventions for comparison, and help clients understand and manage the experience of “feeling fat.” The session will also cover strategies to address the over-evaluation of shape and weight, including the use of the self-evaluation pie chart and behavioral experiments that strengthen alternative domains of self-worth. Designed for clinicians who have clients with body image complaints, appearance as a core self-worth, or presenting with eating disorders and implementing CBT-E, this presentation will offer practical guidance and tools to enhance competence and confidence in addressing body image in treatment

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify at least three specific behaviors associated with body checking and body avoidance that maintain body image disturbance in individuals with eating disorders.

2. Apply the self-evaluation pie chart technique to help clients reduce the over-evaluation of shape and weight and build a more balanced system of self-worth.

3. Explain how to tailor body image interventions in CBT-E to align with an individual client’s formulation, including consideration of personal values, culture developmental history, and sociocultural influences on body image

This is an introductory course and is designed for clinicians and supervisors. For pre and licensed clinicians including psychiatrists, psychologists, AMFT/LMFTs, APCC/LPCCs, MSW/LCSWs, RNs approved to provided psychotherapy, as well as trainees in these disciplines.

Registration Prices:

ACBT Member: $20

Non-Member: $30

Student: $15

CE Credit Add-On: $10

Melissa Harrison is the co-founder of Center of Hope and Health and specializes in evidence-based treatments for eating disorders, the behavioral and psychological management of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, OCD, PTSD, phobias, and other anxiety disorders.

Practicing as a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania and Delaware, she has additional credentials in CBT certification as both a Diplomate CBT-Certified Therapist and Certified Trainer Consultant through the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies and as a Certified Prolonged Exposure Therapist and Supervisor through the University of Pennsylvania. She presents her expertise at professional conferences and continuing education workshops and contributes to local media outlets. She obtained a Master of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology from West Chester University in 2011 and began her career in eating disorders by working as both a primary therapist and treatment team leader over the course of 4 years at the Renfrew Center. She also received specialized certification and supervision in Cognitive-Behavior Therapy-Enhanced from the Centre for Research on Eating Disorders at Oxford in addition to Prolonged Exposure and Exposure and Response Prevention from the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania. Melissa has also completed a specialized fellowship in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for a variety of disorders and clinical issues through the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Cognitive Therapy. Melissa is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Temple University and a clinical facilitator at the Minding Your Mind Foundation. She is the co-author of the text for clinicians, Comorbid Eating Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Clinician’s Guide to Challenges in Treatment, published via Cambridge University Press.

Disclosures

Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

We are happy to provide a certificate of attendance for all providers who stayed for the duration of the activity, however, it is up to the individual attendee to determine whether this activity meets the continuing education requirements of their licensing or credentialing organization. Please check your state’s rules and regulations for more information regarding your continuing education requirements.

Full attendance is required to earn continuing education credit through the APA. It is up to each individual attendee to determine whether this activity meets the continuing education requirements of their licensing or credentialing organization. Please check your state’s rules and regulations for more information regarding your continuing education requirements.

Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies receives no commercial funding for this CE training.

Faculty for this CE training, have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Planners for this CE training have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

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