Tue, May 6, 2025; 1.5 CE hours; $99 ($79 before April 6).
Overview.
Multidiagnostic Eating Disorder – Dialectical Behavior Therapy (MED-DBT), provides a clear and systematic model for dealing with ambivalent, multiple-problem eating disorder cases, as well as life-threatening, and therapy-interfering behaviors.
In this 90-minute, intermediate workshop delivered live virtually, participants will be exposed to MED-DBT theory and practice. Particular attention will be given to how to conceptualize and organize patient behavior in terms of priorities, and how to identify and address therapy-interfering behaviors on the part of the patient and therapist.
The presentation will describe how a MED-DBT treatment model can effectively and comprehensively address eating disorder issues and their comorbidities across the DBT targets.
Learning Objectives
- Define how to categorize eating disorder behaviors in the context of Targets I, II and III
- Identify patient behaviors (eating disordered and otherwise) that interfere with treatment
- Identify and list caregiver behaviors that interfere with treatment
- Identify therapist behaviors that interfere with treatment
- Formulate strategies to address suicidality, non-suicidal self-injury and treatment interfering behaviors in- and outside of session
Instructor Credentials
Lucene Wisniewski, Ph.D., FAED, is a recognized clinician, trainer, researcher, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, who has taught over 150 workshops on Cognitive Behavioral and Dialectical Behavior Therapies internationally and has over 40 publications in peer reviewed journals and invited book chapters. She specializes in complex, co-morbid eating disorders, and is the Owner and Chief Clinical Officer of the Center for Evidence Based Treatment serving clients across the United States and Wisniewski Psychology Services, PLLC in New York.
Anita Federici, PhD, CPsych, FAED, is a Clinical Psychologist and the Owner of The Centre for Psychology and Emotion Regulation. She serves an Adjunct Faculty position at York University and is a distinguished Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED).
Wisniewski and Federici have co-authored a book on MED-DBT that is scheduled for 2025 release by Guilford Press.
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