Food for Thought: Increasing Your Awareness of Eating Disorders

In-Person Workshop
Friday, December 8, 2023
10:00am-2:00pm ET
1 Washington Square North, Parlor, New York, NY 10003

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 4 CE contact hours

Professional relationships: Consider the unique role that the clinician has in order to facilitate comphrensive eating disorder treatment by upholding necessary professional relationships with the treatment team including psychiatrist, primary care and dietitian.

Social work and mental health counseling practice with individuals, couples, families & children: Discuss the way that mental health providers are used in eating disorder treatment to support the individual and family, consider differences between the treatment for children and adults, discuss social work role in higher level of care including onboarding and discharge planning.

Clinical interventions, including EBT's and principles of clinical social work and mental health practice, psychotherapy and clinical social work diagnosis: Review the different eating disorder diagnoses and criteria, consider types of eating disorder treatment (specially CBT-E by Christopher Fairburn).

Cross-disciplinary offerings from medicine, law, administration, education and the behavioral sciences are acceptable if they are clearly related to the enhancement of social work and mental health practice: Learn the medical consequences of eating disorders, learn the types of assessment patient's primary care doctor should be implmenting (i.e. bone density scan, EKG etc.) to help with patient advocacy, discuss principles that dietitian use in meal planning and scheduling, discuss court mandated treatment.

As a result of this workshop, participants will:

1. Be able to evaluate patients that present with eating disorder symptoms by using The SCOFF Questionnaire along with other assessment tools.
2. Have an increased knowledge of 8 different types of eating disorders based on DSM-5.
3. Have an increased knowledge of eating disorder risk factors, treatment methods and level of care.

Rachel Luckman, PsyD

Rachel Luckman, PsyD (she/her/hers) is a New York State licensed clinical psychologist. She currently provides individual therapy and consulting through her private practice. Dr. Luckman received specialized training in working with individuals with eating disorders at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and New York University Counseling and Wellness Services. She has provided assessments/evaluations; individual, family and group therapy; multidisciplinary team consultation; and meal exposures for adolescents and adults at inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient levels of care. Dr. Luckman regularly provides case consultation to providers on eating disorders and leads a seminar titled "Food for Thought: Increasing Your Awareness of Eating Disorders" for trainees and providers.

General Admission: $80.00

Available Discounts: 

• NYU Alumni (10% off): $72
• NYU Field Instructor/Educational Coordinator (10% off): $72

If after registering, you determine that you can no longer attend this event, The Office of Global and Lifelong Learning will issue refunds on the following basis:

• Refund requests made on or before December 1, 2023 (by midnight): full refund
• Refund requests made on or before December 6, 2023 (by midnight): 50% refund
• Refund requests made on or after December 7, 2023: no refund

If this event is cancelled, all registrants will be fully reimbursed. To withdraw from and be reimbursed for this event, please complete the event withdrawal form.

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 4 Continuing Education Contact Hours.

55 jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education provider in the states of New York (though NYU Silver is NYSED CE approved in NYS) and West Virginia, unless the event is outside of West VA. ACE only approves individual courses in New Jersey, though NYU Silver is CSWE-accredited and therefore accepted for licensed NJ professionals. Here is a full list of statutes related to social work CE.

Special Accommodations:
Students requiring accommodations have the opportunity to make these known upon registering or by writing to silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Addressing Grievances:
For information on our grievance and complaint procedures, contact 212.998.9099 or silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Note on Accessibility:
It is a priority to make our events inclusive and accessible. For any questions or to notify us of a request, please email silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu at least 72 hours before the event.

NYU Silver School of Social Work
Office of Global and Lifelong Learning
285 Mercer Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003

Email: silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu
Phone: 212.998.5973
Fax: 212.995.4497