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This interactive workshop is designed for social workers and other therapists who wish to enhance their knowledge of treating patients with co-occurring anxiety and eating pathology using evidence-based approaches. In this workshop, anxiety and eating disorder symptoms will be conceptualized through their shared processes and behaviors. Therapists will learn to recognize, and intervene on, the core features of anxiety and disordered eating behaviors that maintain patients’ suffering.

The basics of cognitive behavioral therapy tailored to these presentations will be described. Specific behavioral and cognitive techniques will be described and demonstrated in depth. Therapists will learn how to help patients build an exposure hierarchy, use exposures to address avoidance and test feared outcomes, evaluate unhelpful thinking patterns using cognitive restructuring, and separate from unhelpful thinking using cognitive defusion.

Participants will be encouraged to present cases and practice role-plays of specific techniques, with opportunities for group discussion and presenter feedback.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Participants will learn to conceptualize anxiety-related disorders and eating pathology through their shared processes
  
  
• Participants will learn to introduce the Cognitive Behavioral Model to clients with avoidance-based disorders 

• Participants will learn to use behavioral techniques to test core fears that underlie both anxiety and eating pathology
  
  
  
• Participants will learn to use cognitive techniques to identify and respond to unhelpful thinking patterns that underlie both anxiety and eating pathology
  
  

PRESENTER BIO

 Dr. Diane Dallal is a clinical psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety (CTSA) in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Dallal received her B.A. in Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she later worked as a research coordinator at the UCLA Anxiety and Depression Research Center. She then received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Drexel University. In graduate school, Dr. Dallal researched mechanisms of change in cognitive behavioral and acceptance-based therapies for individuals with eating pathology and obesity. At the CTSA, Dr. Dallal specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy for adults and adolescents with anxiety disorders and eating pathology. She uses various forms of CBT to help patients with anxiety and eating challenges, including Exposure and Response Prevention (EX/RP) for OCD, Prolonged Exposure (PE) for PTSD, and CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) for patients with social anxiety, panic disorder, generalized anxiety, specific phobias, and eating disorders. She has experience adapting evidence-based treatments for anxiety and eating pathology across cultures and identities in her practice, in supervision with therapists-in-training, and in consultation with clinicians internationally.