Eating Disorders (ED)

The toolkit was developed by Centre of Innovation Campus Mental Health (CICMH) in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA).

The purpose of this toolkit is to help staff and faculty increase their awareness, knowledge, and confidence in supporting students with concerns around eating disorders. While not meant to create experts, this resource offers a starting point for understanding eating disorders, disordered eating, and the unique risk factors students face in post-secondary environments. 

The Emotion Focused Approach to Disordered Eating: Disrupting Stigma and Promoting Agency

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the detrimental effects of the current mainstream perspectives on disordered eating and their predominant treatment methods on sufferers, their families, and the professionals dedicated to helping them. This session will introduce an alternative understanding of eating disorder phenomena and advocate for the use of Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST) to promote recovery and wellness across the system. Experts Dr.

PEACE Psychotherapy is an association of independent private practice psychotherapists committed to teaching life changing DBT skills to some of the most challenging clients. We offer Individual, Family and Group Therapy to help clients struggling with overwhelming negative emotions and impulses, and habitual problem behaviours.

PEACE Psychotherapy is an association of independent private practice psychotherapists committed to teaching life changing DBT skills to some of the most challenging clients. We offer Individual, Family and Group Therapy to help clients struggling with overwhelming negative emotions and impulses, and habitual problem behaviours.

Webinar details: November 18, 2024 | 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET 

Facilitators: Anita Federici, PhD, CPsych, FAED, James Downs, MEd., MBPsyS.

Client category: Professionals working with individuals 12 years to adulthood

Mental Health and Addictions Quarterly

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
12:00 - 1:30 PM EDT

Register to attend Ontario Health’s Mental Health and Addictions Centre of Excellence’s (COE) quarterly webinar on Tuesday, October 15, at noon. 

Join us on Tuesday, February 13, 2024, between 12-1 pm EST for a deeper dive into the management and treatment of eating disorders with Dr. Kalam Sutandar, consultant psychiatrist in the Eating Disorders Program exclusively at Bellwood Health Services. Gain a better understanding of the principles of management and treatment for eating disorders as well as treatment of concurrent substance use and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder , and the importance of a sound medical approach.

You may be alarmed to know that eating disorders have one of the highest death rates in mental health, second only to opioid addiction.

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT): An introduction to essential components

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Eating disorders (EDs): What every clinician needs to know

On-demand training presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

In the first few months after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, pediatric hospitals in high-income countries began to report substantial increases in acute presentations of eating disorders. These findings were important because ED admissions or visits before the pandemic had generally stagnated or decreased.

Clinicians have proven few pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments effective for body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and eating disorders (ED). However, researchers are exploring new treatment options for those with EDs and BDD including psychedelic-assisted therapies. This systematic review collected and evaluated evidence related to the therapeutic impact psychedelics have on patients diagnosed with EDs and BDD.

Certificate in dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) for eating disorders

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Overview:

Register to attend Ontario Health’s Mental Health and Addictions Centre of Excellence’s first webinar on the development of the Eating Disorders Provincial Program. Ontario Health is working with people with lived experience, service providers, and administrators to develop an accessible, standardized, evidence-based, and high-quality eating disorders system in Ontario.

Family-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute