Friday August 16th, 2024, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Grateful Heart Holistic Therapy Center presents
Eating Disorder Treatment: Applying a Social Justice Lens for Healing and Liberation
with Marcella Raimondo, PhD (CA PSY 27037), MPH
3 CEs available
Location: Video
Note: this workshop focuses on the treatment of adults with eating disorders.
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Workshop Description
The need to incorporate social justice perspectives and practices in our understandings of and approach to the treatment of eating disorders is irrefutable. When eating disorders occur in marginalized groups, the dynamics have increasing complexity due to being marginalized, isolated, or stigmatized. Most eating disorder services are constructed for cisgender, heterosexual, affluent, thin, able-bodied women and cannot offer appropriate care for a more diverse client population. Thus, marginalized people seeking professional help may find eating disorder treatment services unequipped to provide the interventions and treatment for their intersecting identities.
Eating disorder treatment programs, advocates, and clinicians need to work together to ensure all individuals with eating disorders can access safe and intersectionality informed treatment options. This workshop asks participants to be reflective and open, examining our own privileges and power in order to move forward to ensure equity in the treatment of eating disorders, especially for marginalized populations. Participants will learn both practical tools for treating eating disorders through a social-justice-informed lens in clinical practice, as well as discuss statistics, case studies, and safety considerations when working with clients with eating disorders.
About Dr. Raimondo
Marcella Raimondo, PhD, MPH is a passionate and spirited clinical trainer speaking from her heart on social justice and eating disorders since 1995. In 1997, Marcella worked with About-Face, a nonprofit organization that addresses media impact on body image, serving as the Director of Media Literacy until 2005. Today she is on the About-Face Board of Founders and a consultant. She was on the Advisory Board for the Association of Size Health and Diversity (ASDAH), on the Advisory Board of Eating Disorder Recovery Support (EDRS) as Past President and serves as Co-Chair of the Academy of Eating Disorders Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee.
Marcella received her B.A. from UC Berkeley, and a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan. Marcella’s desire to address eating disorders drove her to pursue her doctorate in clinical psychology, receiving her PhD in 2012. She completed her post- doc internships at an eating disorder outpatient program and an eating disorder residential program for adolescents. Marcella currently serves as a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY # 27037) in Kaiser Permanente’s eating disorder clinic in Oakland and runs a private practice. Marcella herself recovered from anorexia nervosa over 20 years ago. Marcella trains in Kajukenbo at Hand to Hand Kajukenbo Self Defense Center in Oakland. She holds a second degree black belt and enjoys the exploratory path her training gives her. Her recovery and her martial arts training inspire her dedication to multicultural body nurturance and community celebration.
For more information about Marcella’s trainings, go to marcellaedtraining.com
Educational Goals
- Provide an understanding of social justice perspectives, practices, and approaches to eating disorder treatment.
- Offer interventions and treatment that is inclusive to marginalized people seeking professional help who may otherwise find eating disorder services unequipped to provide the interventions and treatment for their intersecting identities.
- Provide an overall understanding of how eating disorder treatment programs, advocates, and clinicians can work together to ensure all individuals with eating disorders can access safe and intersectional treatment options.
- Offer practical interventions through a social justice lens in clinical practice.
- Provide a reflective and open space to examine our own privileges and power to move forward to ensure eating disorder treatment equity, especially for marginalized populations.
- Gain clinical skills to recognize and challenge clinicians’ biases regarding BMI, health, and people living in large bodies.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will identify two interventions through a social justice lens in clinical practice.
- Participants will identify one research or practice gap with regards to eating disorder treatments from a social justice lens.
- Participants will identify two to three ways they can advocate for change and promote social justice in eating disorder clinics.
References
Burke, N. L., Schaefer, L. M., Hazzard, V. M., & Rodgers, R. F. (2020). Where identities converge: The importance of intersectionality in eating disorders research. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 53(10), 1605–1609. https://doi.org/ 10.1002/eat.23371.
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Course Outline
I. Introduction and Agreements- 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm
-Agreements and Unlearning
II. Eating Disorders and Social Justice- 2:15 -2:45 pm
-Statistics to demonstrate the prevalence of eating disorders in marginalized communities
III. Eating Disorders Interventions- 2:45 pm- 3:25 pm
-Interventions with a social justice approach
IV. Group Work- 3:25 – 4:25 pm
-Real case vignettes (with PHI removed) to demonstrate the struggles of marginalized folks accessing treatment
-Questions for group to respond to and present
V. Self Reflection Dialogue- 4:25 – 4:40 pm
-Safety Agreement reviewed again
-Ask participants to reflect on their process and what came up for them
-Identify 1 -2 ways participants can safely and compassionately move through their discomfort when discussing social justice
VI. Next Steps- 4:40 – 5:00 pm
-Identify 2-3 ways participants can advocate for change and promote social justice in our eating disorders clinics and the field overall
You can sign up for this workshop here.
Free for associates, alumni and supervisors of Grateful Heart. $70 for associates and $120 for licensed clinicians who are not affiliated with Grateful Heart, with an additional $30 for CEs (this applies to both those affiliated with GH and those not affiliated with GH). Registration deadline is August 13th. Questions about this training can be emailed to admin@gratefulhearttherapy.org.