Summit Newsletter
July 2010

Regional Seminars Slated for September

By request, Summit is pleased to be hosting our popular regional seminar, "Building Your Clinical Toolbox: Advanced Treatment Strategies for the Eating Disorder Patient," at locations later this year.

Each 6 hour training seminar for professionals will focus on developing psychological and biological interventions for eating disorder patients. If you attented one of our seminars last, year this will build on materials provided. Additional information on exercise addiction and working with a treatment team will also be included.

Examples of the topics to be covered include:

• Etiology of eating disorders
• Biological, psychological and nutritional interventions
• Experiential therapy exercises
• The role of the family in treatment
• Exercise addiction
• Working with a treatment team
• Addressing treatment resistance

Locations:
9/17- Rhonert Park, CA
9/24- Reno, NV

Time:
8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Six CEUs for psychologists, MFTs and LCSWs are being applied for. Registration fee is only $65.00! Registration information will be available March 15, 2010.

Registration information will be available on our web site, www.sedop.org, in late March. To be included on our RSVP list, please contact Jennifer Lombardi, MFT, Summit Director of Admissions, at jennifer@sedop.org.

Women, Exercise & Recovery

The role of exercise in the the treatment of eating disorders has increasingly become a point of debate among treatment providers.

At the 2009 Eating Disorder and Body Image Symposium, hosted by Summit, Jennifer Lombardi, MFT, co-owner and director of admissions, and Katherine Parker, RD, nutrition consultant in Sacramento, discussed the importance of proper assessment and various considerations for when and how to incorporate exercise as part of treatment.

To learn more about this topic, visit the Summit web site and click on the Women, Exercise and Recovery article listed on our home page. The article appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of Perspectives, a professional newsletter published by the Renfrew Center of Philadelphia.