C. Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) Training: The Fear of FooD
Presented by Dr. Kim DeRé, LPC, MEd, SEP, DBH
Thursday-Friday, February 15-16, 2018
12 contact hours
Introductory to Intermediate Level
Audience: Occupational, Speech Therapists, Physical Therapists and others
Thursday-Friday, February 15-16, 2018
12 contact hours
Introductory to Intermediate Level
Audience: Occupational, Speech Therapists, Physical Therapists and others
The Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) course offers a physiological way to balance the body’s resilience in response to non-verbal trauma. ARFID is a misunderstood eating disorder. It is actually a sensory disorder, and must be treat through sensory channels in order to facilitate treatment and a cure. Attendees/participants of the ARFID course will learn how to set an environment for a body to balance when it is dysregulated or holds the sensory trauma of ARFID. Attendees/participants will learn to work with body tissue and the body’s physiological language to restore and heal.
Objectives: Participants will be able to:
Schedule* 12 Contact Hours
Day 1
8:30 Introduction to ARFID – What is this and how does it effect patients.
10:00 Break
10:30 Working with physiology using attention, intention, and awareness to move tissue
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Working with kidney/adrenal system to decrease anxiety and physiology of fear.
2:30 Break
3:00 Experiential work with kidney/adrenal system
4:30 Adjourn
Day 2
8:30 Watching for physiological openings to shift tissue in digestive track
10:00 Break
10:30 Central nervous system and digestive track balance
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Experiential work with nervous system and digestive track
2:30 Break
3:00 Experiential work with attachment and trauma
4:30 Adjourn
*Topic times may vary; contact hours do not.
Objectives: Participants will be able to:
- Assess and conduct an assessment for ARFID.
- Work with an ARFID individual to decrease sensory activation and anxiety by shutting off adrenal overload.
- Work with a body’s tissues and physiology to release sensory activation so food intake in variety and amount is increased in ARFID individual.
Schedule* 12 Contact Hours
Day 1
8:30 Introduction to ARFID – What is this and how does it effect patients.
10:00 Break
10:30 Working with physiology using attention, intention, and awareness to move tissue
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Working with kidney/adrenal system to decrease anxiety and physiology of fear.
2:30 Break
3:00 Experiential work with kidney/adrenal system
4:30 Adjourn
Day 2
8:30 Watching for physiological openings to shift tissue in digestive track
10:00 Break
10:30 Central nervous system and digestive track balance
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Experiential work with nervous system and digestive track
2:30 Break
3:00 Experiential work with attachment and trauma
4:30 Adjourn
*Topic times may vary; contact hours do not.
Kim DiRé, LPC, MEd, SEP, DBH is passionate about helping people. Her background in education gives awareness to people’s need to understand along with teaching experience to delivery those lessons in specific skill sets. Early development trauma, attachment disorders, eating disorders, and nervous system regulation are part of Dr. DiRe’s specialties. Dr. DiRe’ uses her knowledge of how people learn, lecturing, thousands of therapeutic clinical hours, and writing in order to honor each individual or group acquiring specific learning outcomes. The benefit of the workshops or seminars is for health care workers to promote the well being of their own patients. Dr. DiRe’s integrated and experiential training approach gives complicated physiological information a fun to learn approach, while being applicable to everyday health care practices.
