Full Course Description

Keynote: Dismantling Diet Culture

In a world vying for the demise of “imperfect” bodies, what is the cost to find “peace?” For some, it has cost us affiliations, family, and friends. For those dedicated to liberation, peace may have been gritty, inconvenient, unconventional, and downright at times, chaotic. Nevertheless, we press on.

Setting the tone of the 2026 Body Image Summit, Dr. Joy Cox seeks to remind us that peace is ours for the taking, but that peace does not come without cost. A cost that we should see replenished through the affirmation of self, the tearing down of systems, and the recommitment to community.

Copyright : 17/09/2026

The Cult of Body Shame

Body shame is the norm, not the exception.

And if your clients aren’t aware of existing within a culturally-sanctioned belief system that moralizes bodies, equates appearance with worth, and conditions belonging on bodily control – they’ll remain vulnerable to body dissatisfaction and susceptible to behaviors like disordered eating that will hurt them in the long run.

In this session, Amy Pershing – internationally known eating disorders expert and author of Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery and Beyond – will give you tools to help your clients grow resilience in the face of messages that their bodies are projects to be fixed. You’ll learn:

How to talk with clients about the hijacking of their own body wisdom – and how to restore it
Re-embodiment strategies including parts work interventions and attuned eating and movement
Tools for challenging diet culture and weight stigma so clients can reconnect with body neutrality

Program Information

Objectives

Evaluate the impact of body shaming and weight stigma on mental health.
Integrate attuned eating and movement into treatment plans focused on reducing body dissatisfaction and disordered eating.
Identify areas of focus for grief work for clients who are recognizing their vulnerability to diet culture.

Outline

The Cult of Body Shame

Weight stigma and normative messages about bodies
External authority overrides internal body wisdom
Appearance as moral currency
Diet culture disguised as wellness
Body dissatisfaction and other mental health impacts
Behavioral adaptations – dieting, weight cycling, moralized food choices
Body shame and trauma

Interventions for Body Shame

Parts interventions: Self as intrinsically body positive
Re-embodiment strategies: develop a body “user’s manual”
Attuned eating and movement
Grieve loss of resources and more
Build community and raise awareness
Limitations of the research and potential risks

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Social Media and Body Image

It’s hard to know how to increase your clients’ online resilience when they spend hours on social media platforms –

Spaces that can contribute to disordered beliefs about bodies and food by amplifying perfectionistic standards, appearance-based comparisons, and rigid food rules.

In this session, Deanna Smith – certified eating disorder specialist consultant and author of The Eating Disorder and Body Image Toolbox – will give you the tools you need to help clients navigate social media based on their body image-based values. You’ll learn how to:

Inoculate your clients from comparison and validation-seeking triggered by social media use
Set boundaries and unfollow disordered role models to decrease body dissatisfaction
Integrative tools to decrease disordered eating and compulsive self-monitoring

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze how social media platforms contribute to the development and maintenance of maladaptive behaviors that contribute to disordered eating and body dissatisfaction.
Identify clients’ values related to social media use.
Utilize evidence-based intervention strategies to decrease maladaptive behaviors that maintain and worsen body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors.

Outline

Social Media and Body Dissatisfaction

Social comparison theory
Filters, photo editing, AI, and distortion of body norms
The role of likes and comments on views of self-worth
Maladaptive behavioral responses and reinforcement

Assessment and Intervention Strategies

How to get information about clients’ social media use
Differentiate normative use v. maladaptive use
ACT strategies to identify client values regarding social media use
Strategies for setting social media boundaries
CBT strategies when clients make unhelpful comparisons
Exposure and response prevention to reduce compulsive behaviors
Modify posting and consumption rituals
Limitations of the research and potential risks

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Body Image and Eating Disorders

Body image distress can set the stage for disordered eating –

And when an eating disorder has taken hold, it not only sustains itself – it worsens rapidly.

Whether you’re an eating disorders specialist or not, you need evidence-based tools so that when you first see the signs, you’re ready.

In this session, Dr. Marcella Raimondo – eating disorders expert whose lived experience with anorexia informs her approach – will show you techniques to address two red-flag client behaviors that are early indicators an eating disorders may be developing: preoccupation with mirrors and avoidance of certain foods. You’ll learn:

Tools to help clients decrease body checking and develop a more neutral relationship with their reflection
Gentle exposure strategies to rebuild a balanced connection with foods clients have been avoiding
DBT interventions to help clients manage emotions without disordered eating

Program Information

Objectives

Define the importance of recognizing and treating early signs of an eating disorder.
Utilize exposure strategies to decrease body checking and avoidance of feared foods
Integrate mindfulness and interpersonal effectiveness skills into the treatment of clients who demonstrate disordered eating and body image distress.

Outline

Body Image and Eating Disorders

Brief overview of causes and perpetuating factors of eating disorders
Importance of catching early warning signs
Social justice and intersectionality
Limitations of the research and potential risks

Interventions for Body Distress and Feared Foods

Reactivity to mirror image – preoccupation or avoidance
Mirror exposure with cognitive restructuring and behavioral change
Fear foods that evoke anxiety, fear, guilt, and shame
Develop a food hierarchy of safe foods to feared foods
Mindfulness skills for eating and experiencing meals
Boundary-setting for interpersonal effectiveness
Case studies

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Weight-Inclusive Body Image Interventions

Rules about what can and cannot be eaten often form the foundation of various fad diets, attracting many individuals who wish to “improve” their appearance.

But when dietary restriction and weight suppression take hold, your client is at risk of developing an eating disorder.

That’s why it’s more important than ever that your body image interventions are free of weight stigma.

In this session, Dr. Lauren Muhlheim – “Diet Culture Deprogrammer” and first author of The Weight-Inclusive CBT Workbook for Eating Disorders – will show you weight-inclusive interventions that truly celebrate body diversity. You’ll learn:

Tools to help clients increase regular eating to alleviate food restriction and its risks
Strategies to heal body shame and prepare clients to be in invalidating environments
Modifications for body image exposures so you can offer weight-inclusive care

Program Information

Objectives

Identify the reasons that establishing adequate and regular eating is a primary intervention in treatment for eating disorders.
Differentiate CBT interventions for body image that are weight-inclusive from those that may inadvertently reinforce weight stigma or fatphobic assumptions.
Utilize at least two exposure-based body image interventions that are weight-inclusive.

Outline

Weight-Inclusive CBT (CBT-WI)

How is traditional CBT not weight-inclusive?
Eating disorders as disorders of restriction
Focus on externalizing the problem
Limitations of the research and potential risks

Interventions For When Clients Restrict Food to Shrink Body Size

The importance of regular eating
Rationale and expected benefits
Use of food records to identify undereating
Chain analysis tools to motivate more regular eating

Body Image Interventions

What not to do and why
Help clients stop checking their bodies
Exposure with weight-inclusive modifications
Justice-based exposures to reduce stigma-based harm

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Food Noise, Decoded

When your clients struggle with constant thoughts about food or feeling out of control around eating, it’s easy to think they must have a food addiction.

But maybe they just haven’t eaten enough?

And when food preoccupation and body image become intertwined, you don’t have to be a dietician to guide your clients to intuitive eating, a framework that centers their personal experience of hunger and satiety as indicators of when and what to eat.

In this session, Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN – renowned dietician and co-author of the best-selling book Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach – will give you the tools to understand what’s really driving food noise in your clients and how to quiet it. You’ll learn:

How to conceptualize food-related distress beyond willpower and pathology
Practical strategies to support regulated eating so clients can shift out of the diet-binge cycle
Evidence-informed techniques to respond to common concerns about loss of control or “addiction”

Program Information

Objectives

Identify three key contributors to food noise
Use at least three Intuitive Eating–informed interventions to reduce food preoccupation and support more regulated eating.
Utilize evidence-informed, non-pathologizing language when addressing client concerns about “loss of control” eating and “food addiction.”

Outline

Food Noise in Clinical Practice

Preoccupation and “loss of control”
Cycles of restriction and overeating
Key contributors to food noise

Intuitive Eating Framework and Strategies for Therapists

Overview of intuitive eating research
Reframe eating concerns beyond willpower or pathology
Brief assessment framework
Psychoeducation and normalization strategies
Stabilize eating patterns through consistent nourishment
Reduce food preoccupation by addressing subtle forms of restriction
Support emotional coping without removing food as a tool
Work with fear of losing control
Tools when clients say “I feel addicted to food”
Scope of practice and referral considerations
Limitations of the research and potential risks

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Weight-Inclusive Practice

The marketing of GLP-1 medications as weight loss tools to reduce chronic disease is the latest manifestation of a longstanding belief -

That weighing more puts all of us at risk for negative health outcomes.

But what do we actually know about the relationship between weight and health? And about the health effects of weight loss? Should recommending weight loss be a routine part of clinical care?

In this session, Dr. Lisa Erlanger – clinical professor of family medicine and co-founder and president of the Association for Weight and Size Inclusive Medicine – provides scientific and ethical justification for a weight-inclusive, rather than weight-focused, approach to care. You’ll learn:

How to reduce internalized stigma by teaching clients about the real relationship between health and weight
Strategies to empower clients to focus on health-supporting behaviors rather than the number on the scale
Tools and resources to align your practice with weight-inclusive principles

Program Information

Objectives

Identify the health effects of weight stigma.
Evaluate weight and BMI as valid measures of health or targets of clinical intervention.
Utilize a weight-inclusive framework in clinical practice.

Outline

Weight and Health

The impact of weight bias
Underrecognized harm of focusing on weight
The real relationship between weight and health
The evidence on weight loss interventions including GLP-1 medications
Weight stigma as a driver of health outcomes
Dismantling weight as a health metric and target
Questions for assessing new research as it emerges

Weight-Inclusive Care in Practice

An evidence-based, stigma-free, trauma-informed, patient-centered alternative
Availability of clinical resources
Changes to the clinical environment
Phrases for specific situations
Collaborating with weight-focused practitioners
Opportunities for advocacy
Limitations of the research and potential risks

Copyright : 18/09/2026

What to Expect When You’re Injecting

You’re hearing about it – GLP-1s, the so-called miracle drugs that have burst onto the scene promising to end the struggle to lose weight and restore health.

But as research evolves, what’s the truth behind the hype?

In this session, Ragen Chastain – renowned health educator, author of the popular Weight and Healthcare newsletter, and editor of the anthology The Politics of Size – will give you the evidence-based information you need to finally understand GLP-1s. You’ll learn:

The short- and long-term risks and impacts of GLP-1s
How to support clients whether they are considering, taking, or stopping these medications
A framework you can use to evaluate emerging research and media reports

Program Information

Objectives

Identify the origin and use of GLP-1 agonists.
Summarize research findings related to weight loss, health benefits, and side effects of GLP-1 agonists.
Critically evaluate emerging research and media reporting on GLP-1 agonists.

Outline

Current Generation GLP-1 Agonists

History and context
Drugs and their uses
GLP-1s and mental health symptoms
Safety data – adverse events and psychological impact
Landmark research for weight loss and cardiovascular uses
Frameworks for analyzing GLP-1 research and media articles
How to support a client on GLP-1s for weight loss and other clinical applications
Limitations of the research and potential risks

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Anti-Fat Bias and Mental Health

“I’m too fat and need to lose weight to be healthy. I’m thinking I'll start a GLP1.”

Though you’re not the prescriber, your client wants to talk with you about weight loss medications.

And they expect you to have their best interests in mind.

In this session, Judith Matz – nationally recognized expert on emotional eating and co-author of Beyond a Shadow of a Diet and The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook – will show you the surprising truth that supporting weight loss might clash with your ethical code. You’ll learn:

Tools for ethically supporting clients as they face body shame within diet culture
Strategies for talking with clients in an ethical way about weight management interventions
How to help clients – and yourself – detach from implicit weight stigma and anti-fat bias

Program Information

Objectives

Name at least two assumptions about weight in the mental health field.
Integrate at least two requirements of professional codes of ethics to potential conversations with clients about weight loss.
Identify at least two strategies to unlearn weight stigma.

Outline

Weight Stigma and Outcomes

Anti-fat bias in the therapy field
Overview of weight management risks
How to support health without a weight loss focus
Limitations of the research and potential risks

Weight Stigma as an Ethical Issue

Overview of ethical codes
Self-determination – understanding body autonomy
Informed consent – more than a signature
Competence – how to unlearn bias and develop weight-inclusive practices
Cultural competence – recognize size diversity, use sensitive language, and create a size-friendly office

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Anti-Fat Bias and Exercise

Exercise is touted as the solution to most everything, from health problems to stress.

It sounds great but leaves out the complexity and nuance of movement in a culture that vilifies fat people, promotes exercise as a way to burn calories and lose weight, and tells us that movement is always a positive thing.

And for clients with body image issues, the focus on appearance in many exercise settings can be a deterrent - leading them to not exercising even when they feel it would be beneficial for them.

In this session, Dr. Rachel Millner – eating disorders specialist and fat activist – will show you how talking with clients about exercise is not a neutral act. You’ll learn:

A weight-inclusive framework for exercise, including for higher weight clients and those with eating disorders
Strategies to help clients manage anti-fat bias in exercise settings
Tools to reduce shame for clients who are not exercising at all

Program Information

Objectives

Integrate a weight-inclusive framework into clinical discussions regarding exercise.
Identify at least three ways that weight stigma shows up in messaging about movement and in fitness spaces and the potential impact on client’s mental health.
Utilize at least two strategies to help clients manage anti-fat bias in exercise settings.

Outline

Weight Stigma and Exercise

Exercise recommendations and messaging
Top tips for weight-inclusive language
When and how to recommend exercise for mental health benefits
The morality of movement - reduce shame for clients who are not exercising

Fatphobia in Exercise Settings

Cautions for higher weight clients and clients with eating disorders
Strategies to help clients manage anti-fat bias in exercise settings
The impact of personal and professional biases
Limitations of the research and potential risks

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Menopause & Body Image

Menopausal women have high rates of body dissatisfaction -

Most of which is focused on increases in weight and changes in weight distribution.

And the urge to “fix” these changes through weight loss may actually be harmful, given other physiological changes that occur during this stage.

In this session, Signe Darpinian – eating disorders expert and author of A Women’s Guide to Menopause, Body Image, and Emotional Well-being at Midlife – will give you essential strategies to help your clients approaching menopause to create distance from body image distress. You’ll learn:

A framework for providing psychoeducation about expected body changes

Strategies to help clients process grief related to body changes and aging

CBT and ACT tools clients can use to when their body distress is activated

Program Information

Objectives

Plan psychoeducation about body changes to clients who will experience or are experiencing menopause to reduce the risk of body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating.
Differentiate disordered eating and eating disorder.
Utilize cognitive reframing to shift clients’ negative body image thoughts.

Outline

Menopause and Body Image Distress

Hormone-influenced changes in weight and weight distribution
Increase in body image dissatisfaction during menopause
Diet culture and the pathologizing of normal physiological shifts
Eating disorders vulnerability and the potential harm of dieting for midlife women
Body grief in a youth-obsessed culture

Tools to Reduce Body Image Distress in Menopausal Clients

Provide psychoeducation early and often about expected body changes
Screening tool to assess disordered eating and eating disorders with screening tools
Diet ABCs – is it adequate, balanced, and consistent?
Stress management, movement, social support, and other health behaviors that help
Cognitive reframing to challenge and shift negative body image thoughts
ACT values work to shift focus from external to internal motivation
Limitations of the research and potential risks

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Holding the Mirror

When you’re working with clients’ body image issues, your own are bound to come up.

And – when not dealt with – they can exert a negative influence on treatment, whether through avoidance, over-identification and blurred boundaries, rescue urgency, premature reassurance, silence, or overcorrection.

In this session, body compassion expert Kanjana Hartshorne, LCSW, C-IAYT, CCFT will give you a framework for noticing and tending your own body image issues so that they do not become your clients’ burden. You’ll learn:

Strategies for examining your body image history and internalized cultural messages

A body compassion reflection tool that helps you figure out what’s yours, what’s your client’s, and what belongs to the larger culture

Techniques for compassionate accountability, ethical presence, and weight-inclusive care

Program Information

Objectives

Identify at least three ways therapist body image material may affect clinical presence to impact treatment.
Differentiate between therapist material, client experience, and broader cultural or systemic influences in body image work.
Utilize a reflection tool to support therapist self-awareness, body compassion, and ethical clinical presence.

Outline

Therapist Body Image

Why it’s important in treatment
Body image history and internalized cultural messages
Diet culture, weight stigma, racism, ableism, gendered body expectations
Impacts: avoidance, over-identification, blurred boundaries
Problematic behaviors: rescue, reassurance, silence, overcorrection

Clinical Tools for Therapist Body Image

Strategies to notice therapist body image issues
Body compassion reflection tool to differentiate therapist material, client experience, and systemic influences
Techniques: grounding, pausing before reassurance, naming systemic influences
Maintain client autonomy and dignity
When to seek supervision and consultation
Limitations of the research and potential risks

ACT for Body Acceptance: Help Clients Confront the Barriers that Stop Them from Living the Life They Value

Clients are swimming upstream when it comes to positive body image. Hounded with unattainable white western standards about what constitutes an acceptable body, many stop pursuing the life they want. And at the same time, clients can feel shame that they struggle with body positivity and may blame themselves for being stuck. This session will teach you strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients accept the body they inhabit and use it to pursue meaningful activities even as they experience distressing thoughts, feelings, and memories.

Program Information

Objectives

Determine the role of avoidance of thoughts and feelings about body image in keeping clients stuck.
Describe the differences between acceptance and approval when it comes to body image.
Employ values-based action plans to guide clients in taking committed action toward their values.

Outline

Different Approach to Body Image Struggles
- Not depending on body positivity or approval
- Acceptance vs approval when it comes to body image
- Building psychological flexibility
Help clients unhook from Negative Thoughts and Feelings
- Strategies to develop courage to start doing what is important to them
- Working with the body image they have
- Values-based action plans
Limitations of the research and potential risks

Gender Dysphoria and Disordered Eating

Disordered eating is an epidemic in the LGBTQ community and gender dysphoria can feel like a hopeless diagnosis. Clients may find themselves in a cyclical trap of changing their body and losing themselves in a fixation around food and/or exercise. In this presentation, we will integrate gender identity, body image, and parts work to help clients navigate life in their bodies.

Program Information

Objectives

Integrate prior knowledge of disordered eating treatment with a gender-affirming approach to client care in order to improve client engagement and treatment outcomes. 
Role play conversations with clients on gender dysphoria and eating disorders.
Utilize parts work with gender identity, gender dysphoria, and eating disorders to improve clinical outcomes.

Outline

Disordered Eating Treatment With Gender Expansive Clients

Conceptual model for integrative treatment of gender dysphoria and disordered eating
Limitations of research and potential risks
Key concepts and terminology
- Gender expression, identity, attribution, presentation
Gender dysphoria
- Types of gender dysphoria
- Expression of gender dysphoria

Gender Dysphoria & Eating Disorders in the Gender Expansive Population

Frequency of eating disorders
Potential client symptoms of disordered eating/compulsive exercise
Deconstructing body image in the queer community
- Gender attribution and presentation
- Passing privilege
- Androgeny ideal
- Trans media representation
Potential roles of disordered eating in a gendered society
Examining your eating disorder treatment for cisgender, heteronormative bias

Integration of Gender Identity into Disordered Eating Treatment

Trauma in the queer community
Reframing gender dysphoria as a coping mechanism
Parts work for gender dysphoria and trauma
Utilizing gender dysphoria as a strength
Skills for client conversations
Gender euphoria

This Body Never Meant to Cause Harm

Body forgiveness helps our clients shift from criticism and hatred, toward internal forgiveness, self-compassion and a return to embodied living. Through a process of grieving and mourning, self-compassion and self-understanding, clients come to uphold body neutrality over positivity, along with honoring and allowing for the suffering that may continue to be felt living in a body that one and/or the world wishes were different.

Program Information

Objectives

Assess clients’ stage of body forgiveness to inform selection of treatment interventions
Utilize at least one intervention focused on encouraging clients’ body-oriented self-care
Apply knowledge of body neutrality to clinical practice as evidenced by use of at least one embodiment-focused intervention

Outline

Body hatred – how it develops, and how and why to shift it
Top tips for guiding your clients to a new relationship with their bodies
Shift grief into grieving
Action-oriented self-care toward one’s body
Move clients’ self-criticism into self-compassion and forgiveness
Limitations of the research and potential risks

Body Grief

Have your clients – or you – ever felt hopeless in your body image healing work? Many therapists’ efforts to get their clients to arrive at body acceptance are premature because body image issues cannot be healed without first addressing body grief. In this session, Brianna Campos, LPC, body image coach and educator, will show you the hurdles keeping your clients from fully grieving and give you the keys you need to move your clients into body acceptance.

Program Information

Objectives

Explore + define grief and how it impacts our body image
How to help your clients (and yourself) shift their thinking about body image healing
Learn the hurdles keeping your clients stuck in grief
Highlight the three things you need to help move your clients from body grief to body acceptance

Outline

What is body image?

What body image is and is not
What is body grief + how did we get here

Hurdles keeping you stuck

The Conditioning of Diet Culture: Clients who are stuck in the bargaining phase of grief because they are continually gaslighting themselves about what Diet Culture is teaching verses what aligns with their values
Skills: Deprogramming by highlighting a client value system and comparing and contrasting the dichotomy of a client's thoughts vs belief
“Bad Body Image” a.k.a Body Image Distress: Preventing clients from body acceptance is distressful to body image
Body Acceptance

Tools to shift body grief

The Conditioning of Diet Culture: Understanding a client's enneagram, their core motivation is I can help understand better how they relate to the world and showcase the dissonance of the beliefs they identify with vs the actions they are living by.
“Bad Body Image” a.k.a Body Image Distress: Exploring the distress in a trauma-informed way (utilizing DBT skills of scaling the level of distress in an effort to protect the client's nervous system as we explore traumatic body image
- Tool #2: Utilizing a narrative therapy technique to understand the underlying story or narrative that this distress is communicating
- Tool #3: 1. Investigate where am I feeling this in my body 2. Manage how distressful is it 3. Honor the suck without trying to rush the reframe 4. Assessing your needs in the moment

Body Acceptance:

1. For understanding body grief, my unique formula is first building awareness around the negative distressful body image in a trauma-informed way
2. We need to practice active unlearning: I would do this by creating and setting attainable body image goals with my clients so we can provide them with a short-term win
3. Overtime: not conflating that time will heal old wounds but rather in time time with the practice of building awareness and active unlearning our clients will have concrete evidence of how their formerly unmanageable distress has become more manageable
4. In community: Helping clients take their private healing into the world in everyday situations creates a microcosm for their healing. It allows them to build their self-efficacy, resiliency, and compassion a.k.a. their values in how they would respond to others who struggle with the same wounds.

3 Steps needed to move your clients from body grief towards body acceptance

The 3 steps in Neuroplasticity are:
- Consistent Awareness
- Unconditional Positive Regard
- Time
Final thoughts on Body Grief
How to find Me!

Q+A

Why Body Image and Eating Disorders are Social Justice Issues: No Room for Neutral

For authentic allyship with marginalized clients facing eating disorders and body image issues, clinicians need to more fully understand racial trauma, systemic racism, and how intersectionality impacts clients’ experiences. In this session, you’ll learn how body shame manifests differently for clients of different cultures, how clinical neutrality is antithetical to antiracist work, and how to generate strategies that will ground your work in social justice.

Program Information

Objectives

Identify and describe the roles which providers’ own racial consciousness play in their work with clients (across all racial groups)
Analyze critically the impact of racial trauma and systemic racism on body image issues in clients with eating disorders
Generate two ways in which providers can actively engage as authentic allies and advocates to improve their work and ground it in social justice approaches.

Outline

Eating Disorders and Body Image in Marginalized Communities
- Racism and Discrimination as Risk factors for ED
- ED in People of Color
- Underutilization and Mistrust of Treatment
- Understanding the effects of Racial Trauma on eating disorders
Systemic Racism and Eating Disorder Conceptualization and Treatment
- Barriers to care
- Individualistic Treatment is exclusionary and inadequate for many groups
- False Presumption of universality of therapeutic principles
- Microaggressions in Treatment
- Barriers to Racial safety in treatment
Cannot solve systemic and institutionalized problem with neutrality
- Clinical neutrality antithetical to antiracist work
- Onus of change is on those directly affected by racism not the systems that benefit and perpetuate racism
We must go beyond “Thinness” if we are to consider non-white bodies
- Body shame manifests differently for people from different cultures
- Multiple body images and identities
- Intersectionality
- Colorism
Authentic Allyship
- Authentic vs. Performative Allyship
- Importance and Value of Diversity and Inclusivity
- Allyship as action, not identity
- Understanding Our Own Privilege and Bias
- Social Justice framework for clinical work