Eating Disorder Awareness and Prevention

Sponsored by the Counseling Center

 

November 5 and 6, 2008

Hinckley 240

 

Wednesday, November 5

 

1:15 - 2:15 p.m. 

Lynette Taylor MT, BC; Kim Passmore, RD; and Becky Mann, RN

"Accepting Our Bodies: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Body Images"

 

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.           

Kim Passmore, RD - dietician

"Intuitive Eating: A Positive Change From Painful Diets in the Pursuit of Thinness"

 

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.            

Becky Mann, RN - nurse

"Preventing Eating Disorders: What You Can Know Now That I Didn't Know Then"

7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.            

Michael E. Berrett, Ph.D.; Kim Passmore, RD; Becky Mann, RN; and Lynette Taylor, MT - BC

"Spiritual Perspectives on Recovery from Anorexia, Bulimia and Compulsive Eating"

  

  

Thursday, November 6

 

9:00 a.m.  - 10:00 a.m.            

Lynette Taylor, MT - BC - music therapist

"The Healing Power of Music in Making Changes from Addictive Behaviors with Food, Diets and Eating Disorders"

10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.          

Becky Mann, RN - nurse

"A Personal Journey of Faith, Hope and Recovery From the Ravages of an Eating Disorder"

 

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.          

Michael E. Berrett Ph.D.; Gwena Couliard, Ph.D.; and Randy K. Hardman, Ph.D.

"Feeling Better About Ourselves: The Antithesis of an Eating Disorder"

 

 

 

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

 

Kim Passmore, RD

Kim Passmore, RD,  majored in dietetics at Brigham Young University and graduated with a B.S. in 2002.  Throughout her schooling, Kim worked at Center for Change as a care technician and as the diet technician and gained valuable insight in working with those who suffer from eating disorders.  She completed her dietetic internship (at various locations including Primary Children's Hospital, Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, and Utah Country WIC) in May of 2003 and continued to work at Center for Change doing both inpatient and outpatient nutrition counseling.  In October of 2005, Kim became the Clinical Nutrition Director and oversees the nutrition program at Center for Change.  She loves being able to aid those in the recovery process and to help them heal their relationship with food.

 

Lynette Taylor, MT-BC

Lynette L. Taylor, MT-BC, is a Board Certified Music Therapist.  She has worked as the music therapist at Center for Change since January of 1998 where she created and implemented the current music therapy program.  Lynette attended Ricks College and then Utah State University, where she graduated with a BS in music therapy in 1997.  Lynette resides in Herriman, Utah, with her husband and two children.

 

Becky Mann, R.N.

Becky Mann, R.N., has been a nurse at the Center for Change for the past 4 ½ years.  She has been recovered from her eating disorder for the past 10 ½ years.  She enjoys giving hope and inspiration to women struggling with eating disorders, body image, and self-esteem.  Becky currently works full-time as an RN at a family practice doctor's office in Orem, Utah.  She works at Center for Change 12-24 hours a month.  In her spare, time she enjoys snowboarding, wakeboarding, singing, playing guitar, and spending time with friends and family.

 

Michael E. Berrett, PhD

Dr. Berrett is CEO, Executive Director, past Clinical Director, and Co-founder of Center for Change, which since 1994, has specialized in intensive treatment programs for anorexia, bulimia, compulsive eating, and co-existing disorders.  He is currently on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP), and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Therapeutic Schools and Programs.  He is the co-author of several books and book chapters including Spiritual Approaches in the Treatment of Women with Eating Disorders.  He has also co-authored many professional journal articles on eating disorders and other topics.  He has presented nationally at many conferences, including IAEDP, NATSAP, IECA, EDCT, BFI SUMMIT, APTED and other national conferences on various topics, including treating adolescents with eating disorders, spirituality in treatment, avoidance and the maintenance of poor self esteem, and the art of giving and receiving social support.  Prior to opening the Center for Change intensive programs in 1994, Dr. Berrett worked as a psychologist in private practice and at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in adult and adolescent psychiatry.

 

Randy K Hardman Ph.D.   

Brother Hardman has been a psychologist for nearly twenty-five years and is currently working in the Counseling Center at BYU-Idaho.  His professional background includes being a co-founder and director of Center For Change, a specialty eating disorder hospital and residential treatment center in Orem, Utah, for eleven years.  In addition, he was in a private therapy practice for sixteen years, director of an inpatient hospital program for depression for two years, an adjunct faculty member in the Counseling Psychology department at BYU for nine years, at the Human Development Institute in Colorado for three years, and a therapist in the Counseling Center at Ball State University for one year.  He is the co-author of the APA book Spiritual Approaches in the Treatment of Women with Eating Disorders and has published many professional articles and book chapters on eating disorder related topics.  Brother Hardman is married to Aline Johnson and they have six children.  He currently resides in Menan, Idaho.

 

Gwenaelle Couliard 

Gwenaelle Couliard received her doctorate in marriage and family therapy from Brigham Young University in 1990.  That same years, she joined the Utah State University Counseling Center team, where she provided psychological services, taught undergraduate and graduate courses both in psychology and human/family development, trained and supervised graduate students, chaired conferences, and developed Center programs.  In addition, she worked as a consultant at Avalon Hills, an eating disorder in-patient facility in Petersboro,Utah.  While in Utah, she served on professional boards for the Utah Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists.  In 2005, she left USU to come to the Brigham Young University-Idaho Counseling Center, where her focus is individual, couples and group therapy, and student education regarding various mental and relational health related topics, including eating issues.  She serves on the BYU-Idaho Wellness Committee whose mission is to assist the entire BYU-I community, students and employees alike, in improving their health.