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Week 4A: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Weight Management: An Evidence-Based Approach for Health Care Providers

August 16-20, 2010, Deerhurst Resort, Huntsville

Our seminars run from 9:00 to 12:15 daily, allowing registrants to make use of the resort amenities in the afternoons.

Overview:

Weight management is considered an essential component in the prevention of chronic disease.  Health care professionals are aware of this, but often have to rely on their own informal weight control knowledge and experience in providing patients with advice.  This course will provide participants with a review of current research in, and recommendations for, body weight regulation.  Using Cognitive Behavioral (CBT) principles, participants will learn to design both eating and activity plans, with a goal of improved health.  Participants will learn how to approach practical, emotional and interpersonal obstacles to implementing a lifestyle plan.  Finally, strategies for addressing body image will be reviewed.  Participants will leave this course with a clear understanding of what is recommended in dealing with weight concerns, as well as practical knowledge of how one might change one’s lifestyle for the better.

Topics:

Current recommendations for weight management; what is known about the body’s regulation of weight; recommendations for dealing with health or body image issues related to weight; research on successful weight losers; weight management beliefs and their relationship to body image; practical CBT strategies for lifestyle change.

Faculty:

Michele Laliberte, Ph.D., C.Psych. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at McMaster University in Hamilton , Ontario , Canada .  She is also the Director of the outpatient adult Eating Disorders Program at St. Joseph ’s Healthcare in Hamilton .  Dr. Laliberte has trained numerous health care professionals in Cognitive Behavior Treatment for Eating Disorders.  She also maintains a private practice in eating disorders.

Accreditation:

This educational program meets the accreditation criteria of The College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been accredited for 3 hour credits per session for participants to a maximum of 15 hours.

This educational program is approved as an Accredited Group Learning Activity under Section 1 of the Framework of CPD options for the Maintenance of Certification Program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, for 3 hours per session per participant to a maximum of 15 hours. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.