It's Not Just Picky Eating: Recognizing and Treating ARFID

While symptoms of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) frequently begin early in childhood, patients often present to eating disorders treatment during latency, adolescence and sometimes as young adults. The resulting gap between onset and specialty care results in significant medical and nutritional co-morbidity and risk. ARFID also substantially impacts quality of life. Rigid eating patterns can negatively influence social and cultural development and experience. Patients and their families have frequently been working for significant periods of time to identify a diagnosis and...Read more obtain care. They often report that their concerns have not been validated or addressed. This workshop will provide current conceptualization for ARFID identification, along with the most current recommendations for treatment intervention across the continuum of care. Less...

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Learning Objectives

Describe at least 2 differences between ARFID and Anorexia Nervosa
List the 3 proposed subcategories for ARFID and understand where they may overlap
Identify at least one strategy for treatment for each subtype of ARFID that can be applied within the participant’s scope of care

Target Audience

Professional counselors, mental health professionals, dietitians, social workers, healthcare providers, and individuals seeking to expand their knowledge in these areas.

Learning Levels

Beginner

Thursday, May 08, 2025

Live Interactive Webinar

11:00 AM CDT - 12:00 PM CDT

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EARN 1 CE Credit Hours

About the speakers

Taylor Rae Homesley LPC, CPCS, CEDS-C

Executive Director

Taylor Rae Homesley (she/her) is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from Richmont Graduate University. Prior to attending Richmont, she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in childhood and family development from the University of Georgia. She is a Georgia approved supervisor and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Approved Supervisor. Taylor Rae has been working with patients with eating disorder since 2012 across multiple levels of care including inpatient/residential, partial hospital, and outpatient treatment settings. She is currently the Executive Director at The Emily Program’s Child, Adolescent & Adult Eating Disorder Treatment Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Taylor Rae has been with our Atlanta site since it first opened as an outpatient center in 2017. Taylor Rae has a strong passion for providing evidence-based treatment while collaborating within a multidisciplinary team to provide the best care possible to patients and their families.

Jonathan Levy MD, FAPA, CEDS-C

Dr. Jonathan Levy (he/him) is the Regional Medical Director at The Emily Program’s Child, Adolescent & Adult Eating Disorder Treatment Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Levy earned a bachelor’s in psychology from Emory University and later completed medical school and residency at the Emory University School of Medicine. During his fellowship and residency, he was appointed Chief Resident and received the Resident Teaching Award for outstanding teaching interest and skill, as determined by feedback from residents, medical students, and residency program directors.
Dr. Levy is a member of the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association, the American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Georgia Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the Department of Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine.
Prior to joining The Emily Program, Dr. Levy was the primary psychiatrist at The Renfrew Center of Georgia and a staff psychiatrist at Georgia Regional Hospital Atlanta, working in the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. He also had a private practice, providing outpatient psychiatric assessments, consultation, therapy, and psychopharmacologic management to children, adolescents, and adults.

CE Information - Earn 1 CE Credit Hour

CE Approvals

American Psychological Association

The Emily Program is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Emily Program maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

National Board for Certified Counselors

The Emily Program has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP no. 7166. Programs that do not qualify are clearly identified. The Emily Program is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

CE Process Info

Each professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by their licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Please note: You must attend "live" (in real-time) to earn CE credits. No partial credits.

Before the event, you will receive an email from CE-Go with access to the virtual event. After the event, you will receive access to your evaluation and continuing education certificate via a personalized "attendee dashboard" link, hosted on the CE-Go website. This link and access to the virtual event will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event.

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Complete evaluation forms for the event
Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format

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Disclosure

This educational program is made available to the public free of charge through the financial support of The Emily Program Foundation.