About this course

Learning Objectives

• State two potential symptoms of eating disorders
• Recite two reasons why early intervention is recommended for children and adolescents
• State two treatment modalities used in eating disorder treatment

Learning Levels

• Beginner

Target Audience

Course Instructor(s)

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  Madeline Koermer, MSW, LCSW

  Clinical Manager

  Maddie Koermer (she/her) is a Clinical Manager of The Emily Program’s Triangle Child, Adolescent & Adult Eating Disorder Treatment Center in Durham, North Carolina. Maddie greatly appreciates being part of a client’s care team and enjoys walking alongside clients and families as they navigate the recovery journey.

  Maddie obtained her Master of Social Work (MSW) from Loyola University of Chicago and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in North Carolina. She began her career at The Emily Program (formerly Veritas Collaborative) in 2016 and has experience working with clients and their families across multiple levels of care, including inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization (PHP), and intensive outpatient (IOP). She is particularly passionate about the PHP and IOP levels of care and multi-family programming.

  As a clinical manager, Maddie is always pleased to help connect families to psychoeducational and supportive resources in their local area. She also thoroughly enjoys supervising student interns and clinicians in eating disorder treatment. Maddie pulls from various treatment modalities, including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), family based therapy (FBT), and motivational interviewing. She strongly believes that every eating disorder is significant enough to receive help.

  Maddie embraces diversity and believes in the importance of a non-judgmental, inclusive recovery environment. Maddie is an active Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Council member at Accanto Health.

Disclosure

References

• Deloitte Access Economics. The Social and Economic Cost of Eating Disorders in the United States of America: A Report for the Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders and the Academy for Eating Disorders. June 2020. Available at: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/striped/report-economic-costs-of-eating-disorders/.
• López-Gil JF, García-Hermoso A, Smith L, et al. Global Proportion of Disordered Eating in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis . JAMA Pediatr. 2023;177(4):363–372. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.5848
• Sasha Gorrell, Stuart B. Murray, Eating Disorders in Males, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Volume 28, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 641-651, ISSN 1056-4993, ISBN 9780323673297, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chc.2019.05.012. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1056499319300641) Keywords: Eating disorders; Male eating disorders; Anorexia nervosa; Bulimia nervosa; Binge eating disorder; Muscle dysmorphia
• A Meta-Analytic Review of Stand-Alone Interventions to Improve Body Image Alleva JM, Sheeran P, Webb TL, Martijn C, Miles E (2015) A Meta-Analytic Review of Stand-Alone Interventions to Improve Body Image. PLOS ONE 10(9): e0139177. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139177
• Eating disorders Treasure, Janet et al. The Lancet, Volume 395, Issue 10227, 899 - 911