Binge Eating Disorder Shedding Light on the Most Common Eating Disorder

Course overview

This continuing education workshop will focus on the Binge Eating Disorder definition, assessment, treatment, coexisting disorders, the impact of it being an addition to the DSM-5, and any therapy-related issues that may arise that can be challenging for both patients as well as clinician/treatment team to face and overcome. Placing Binge Eating Disorder (BED) in the latest edition of the DSM has generated a significant shift in the mental health world, specifically those that specialize in eating disorders and other addiction-focused treatment settings. This workshop will allow us to explore BED in more detail and provide insight on how to shift our treatment focus and our attitudes beyond thinking of eating issues as a simplistic lack of willpower and shift awareness towards it is the most common eating disorder, yet the most treatable eating disorder as well. Persons deemed appropriate to attend this workshop might include addictions counselors, pastoral counselors, wellness and/or life coaches, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, family physicians, pediatricians, teachers, athletic trainers and/or coaches, and any related treatment professional that might be specializing in the general clinical, child-adult, school, as well as sport/performance settings.