February Highlights Eating Disorders Awareness Week
An Evening with an Eating Disorders Expert Panel
Mason, Ohio — February 2,2012 — In honor of Eating Disorders Awareness Week (February 26 – March 3), Lindner Center of HOPE will join with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Cincinnati Psychotherapy Institute to offer an Evening with an Eating Disorders Expert Panel. The panel will consist of nationally recognized Eating Disorders experts and offer an opportunity for primary care physicians, mental health specialists, school counselors, coaches and family members to learn about the emotional and health consequences affecting over 11 million individuals.
Eating Disorders are biologically based, devastating illnesses that can have potentially life-threatening consequences. They affect a person’s emotional and physical health, productivity and relationships. The panel presentation is part of the Harold C. Schott Foundation Eating Disorders Program at Lindner Center of HOPE’s monthly health series.
Compared with other mental illnesses, eating disorders represent the highest rate of mortality. And to make it more challenging, its identification and treatment can be challenging. Research has shown that with psychiatric management, psychotherapy, nutritional services, and family engagement, success can be experienced. “A coordinated approach to care can return patients, and their loved ones, to more fulfilling lives,” says Scott Bullock, MSW, LISW-S, Family Therapist and Eating Disorders Intake Coordinator at Lindner Center of HOPE. Bullock says to look for these signs indicating a person may be suffering with an eating disorder:
- Preoccupation with body shape and/or weight
- Weight disturbances or unexplained weight changes (underweight, overweight or obese)
- Hoarding high-calorie food
- Obsession with diets, calories, food, or nutrition
- Compulsive eating, binge eating, or inability to stop eating
- Frequent rigorous dieting, regardless of body weight
- Compulsively arranging food and/or cutting into tiny pieces
- Eating alone or late night eating
- Taking laxatives or diet pills or excessive exercising to prevent weight gain
- Avoiding eating in public and social situations that involve food
- Repeatedly going to the bathroom shortly after meals
- Regular fasting
An Evening with an Eating Disorders Panel of Experts
February 2, 2012; 6:30pm-7:45pm
at Lindner Center of HOPE
Harold C. Schott Eating Disorders Treatment Team:
Anne Marie O’Melia, MS, MD, Medical Director
Scott Bullock, MSW, LISW-S, Family Therapist & Intake Coordinator
Sarah Arszman Lavanier, PsyD, Clinical Psychologist
Tracy Early, BA, Med, Group Curriculum Specialist
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center:
Laurie Mitan, MD, Director, Eating Disorders Program
Abbey Tissot, PhD
Cincinnati Psychotherapy Institute:
Ann Kerney- Cooke, PhD, Director and national best-selling author
For more information contact: [email protected], or click here.
March Event:
March 1, 2012, 6:30pm-7:45pm
The Role of Nutritional Therapy in Eating Disorder Treatment
Ellen Young, Dietitian & Jessica Barth, Dietitians, Harold C. Schott Foundation Eating Disorders Program at Lindner Center of HOPE
About the Harold C. Schott Foundation Eating Disorders Program
The Harold C. Schott Foundation Eating Disorders Program at Lindner Center of HOPE offers a disciplined approach to eating disorders treatment that combines psychiatric management, psychotherapy, nutritional services, and family engagement throughout the entire process. Board certified clinicians offer the wisdom, compassion and proven treatment modalities to successfully treat complex illnesses such as eating disorders, returning patients, and their loved ones, to more fulfilling lives. Of the patients who received eating disorder treatment, 69% did not need to be readmitted for additional treatment.
About Lindner Center of HOPE:
Lindner Center of HOPE provides patient-centered, scientifically-advanced care for individuals suffering with mental illness. A state-of-the-science, free-standing mental health center and charter member of the National Network of Depression Centers, the Center provides psychiatric hospitalization, outpatient services, research and adult residential services. The Center’s clinicians are ranked among the best providers locally, nationally and internationally. Lindner Center of HOPE is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.