Track 3: Counseling
Deepening The Art and Science of Weight Neutral
Diabetes Care
This layered program will have you:
- Discover the benefit of normalizing the experience of eating for clients with diabetes.
- Learn how Self-compassion impacts eating and health behaviors.
- Identify counseling techniques and activities to strengthen self-compassion.
- Learn ways to work with patients who previously underwent weight loss surgery and are struggling with disordered eating and diabetes.
- Discover ways to help bariatric surgery patients heal their relationship with food.
- Identify the key macro and micronutrients clients likely need 3-5 years post-WLS.
- Review client-centered books and social media-based resources to support recovery from disordered eating.
- Identify ways to determine whether a client requires more support than outpatient care alone, and how higher levels of care support recovery.
- Learn what and how to identify higher levels of care, support, and recovery for your clients.
- Learn how trauma impacts a person’s physical and psychological well-being.
- Identify the key to trauma-informed care.
- Learn effective techniques to communicate with clients, and offer compassionate and trauma-informed care to clients.
Normalizing the Common Human Experience of Eating
Holly Paulsen RD, CEDRD-S, LD
In a culture full of dieting messages, rules, and pseudo nutrition science, how can we normalize eating for patients with diabetes?
Key Takeaways
- Discover the benefit of normalizing the experience of eating for clients with diabetes
- State Self-compassion impacts eating and health behaviors
- Identify counseling techniques and activities in self-compassion
Counseling Options for Clients: From Books to Inpatient hospitalization
Nicole Patience MS RD LDN CDCES CEDRD
When a client expresses thoughts or behaviors around disordered eating, how do I best support and connect them with resources to meet their needs?
Key Takeaways
- Walk through four case studies to identify books and social media-based resources to support recovery from disordered eating.
- Identify how to determine whether a client requires more support than outpatient care alone, how higher levels of care support recovery, and how to screen a facility to meet your client's needs."
Re-nourishing and Reclaiming Health After Bariatric Surgery
Narmin Virani RDN
How can healthcare professionals apply IE/HAES principles in bariatric surgery patients?
Key Takeaways
- Learn ways to work with patients who previously underwent weight loss surgery and are struggling with disordered eating and diabetes.
- Discover ways to help bariatric surgery patients heal their relationship with food
- Identify the key macro and micronutrients clients likely need 3-5 years post-WLS
Creating a Safe Container:
Trauma-Informed Care for Diabetes
Nikki Estep, MPH, RDN, LD, CDCES
How can we create a safe container, a safe space for all people to receive care in all facets of healthcare?
Key Takeaways
- Identify how trauma impacts a person’s physical and psychological well-being.
- List the key aspects of trauma-informed care
- Discover techniques for communication that offer the most compassionate and trauma-informed care to clients.
