{"id":9435,"date":"2021-09-21T11:13:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/psych\/?page_id=9435"},"modified":"2023-05-22T08:59:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T12:59:20","slug":"eating-disorder-track","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/psych\/eating-disorder-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Disorder Track\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Track Overview:<\/strong>\u00a0The Eating Disorders Track is designed to offer interns comprehensive experience in the assessment and\u00a0evidenced supported\u00a0treatment of eating disorders. This track offers training in both outpatient and inpatient levels of care in a specialty eating disorder clinic\u00a0at the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders (CEED).<\/p>\n<p>UNC CEED is a world leader in treatment, research, and training.\u00a0 Our treatment team delivers the highest standard of evidence-based care to achieve efficient and sustained clinical improvement, enhanced quality of life, and recovery.\u00a0 Alongside our clinical mission, CEED provides outstanding education and training in eating disorders to medical students, residents, fellows, graduate students, interns, post-doctoral fellows, and other health professional trainees.\u00a0 Given CEED\u2019s international reputation for leading-edge research, there are ample opportunities for the intern to engage in eating disorder research.<\/p>\n<p>The settings within this track serve a diverse patient population including diagnostic presentation, age, body weight, sexual orientation, gender presentation, and socioeconomic status. Interns will receive training and supervision that integrates cultural sensitivity and cultural humility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CEED Primary\u00a0Clinical Rotations<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CEED\u00a0Inpatient\u00a0Eating Disorders Unit (Mae Lynn Reyes-Rodriguez, PhD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The inpatient eating disorders unit (EDU) provides treatment for\u00a0adolescents and young adults with severe eating disorders.\u00a0The EDU\u00a0follows\u00a0family-based treatment (FBT) principles\u00a0with children and adolescents\u00a0and aims\u00a0to actively engage the family in treatment.\u00a0Group and individual psychological treatment\u00a0incorporates\u00a0principles from enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-E), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), motivational interviewing, and acceptance and commitment therapy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the\u00a0EDU, interns\u00a0gain experience working with a highly interactive multidisciplinary team\u00a0(e.g., physicians, nurses, dieticians, social workers, and other allied health professions). Interns\u00a0are actively involved in\u00a0assessment, diagnosis, and case conceptualization, and\u00a0play\u00a0an active\u00a0role in\u00a0our\u00a0treatment team\u00a0meetings.\u00a0\u00a0Interns\u00a0conduct twice weekly\u00a0individual\u00a0psychotherapy\u00a0and follow inpatients for the length of their stay.\u00a0 Interns also lead\u00a0group psychotherapy\u00a0(group modalities may include CBT-E, DBT,\u00a0etc).\u00a0Interns may also participate in family meetings with our unit social\u00a0worker and\u00a0may have the opportunity to\u00a0supervise graduate-level psychology practicum students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ED track intern\u00a0spends\u00a0approximately 8 hours per week on the inpatient eating disorders unit across the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CEED Outpatient\u00a0Program\u00a0(Jean\u00a0Doak, Ph.D.; Camden\u00a0Matherne, PhD;\u00a0Christine M. Peat, PhD,\u00a0FAED)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the outpatient clinic, the intern will participate in the provision of evidence-based treatments for\u00a0both adolescent and adult patients with eating disorders across the diagnostic spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Interns will gain experience in\u00a0comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and treatment\u00a0of\u00a0eating disorders, including\u00a0case formulation and treatment planning from\u00a0several\u00a0evidence-based\u00a0theoretical perspectives. Treatment modalities commonly offered in this clinic include\u00a0CBT-E and FBT.\u00a0Cases\u00a0will be assigned based on intern interest and training goals.<\/p>\n<p>The ED track intern spends\u00a0approximately 8\u00a0-12 hours per week\u00a0in the CEED outpatient program\u00a0across the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UNC\u00a0Bariatric Surgery\u00a0Program (Christine M. Peat, PhD, FAED)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UNC Bariatric Surgery Program is a designated Center of Excellence with the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program\u00a0that includes multidisciplinary providers\u00a0including:\u00a0surgeons, nurse practitioners, dieticians, and psychologists. The intern will gain experience with conducting pre-surgical psychological evaluations to determine candidacy for bariatric surgery. During the evaluation clinic, the intern will become proficient in independently conducting evaluations, determining candidacy for surgery, and working as part of a multidisciplinary surgical team. The intern will also have the opportunity to work with post-surgical patients and provide psychological interventions aimed at helping patients with adjusting to the myriad lifestyle and dietary changes, addressing any psychiatric symptoms that arise, as well as treating any eating pathology that may present. As a result, there are opportunities to follow a patient\u2019s entire surgery journey from pre-surgical candidacy through post-surgical adjustment and management.<\/p>\n<p>The ED track intern spends approximately 4 hours\/week in the UNC Bariatric Surgery Program throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Minor Rotations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ED Track intern is encouraged to take advantage of the broad variety of elective intern rotations at UNC.\u00a0 Rotations that match up particularly well with our track include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Primary care<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s\u00a0Mood\/Reproductive Psychology<\/li>\n<li>Addiction Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Gender Equity and Wellness<\/li>\n<li>Post-traumatic and Acute Trauma Treatment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Didactics:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first several weeks of internship will be spent receiving in-depth didactic and experiential training to prepare the intern to provide clinical services in each clinical rotation. Supervisors in each of the clinical rotations will deliver practical training that will equip the intern to provide evidence-based intervention relevant to each clinical setting. Areas of in-depth didactic training\u00a0will likely\u00a0include:\u00a0eating disorder assessment,\u00a0inpatient treatment,\u00a0bariatrics,\u00a0FBT, and CBT-E.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professional Development:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Supervisors\u00a0in the\u00a0Eating Disorders\u00a0track are actively engaged in supporting\u00a0interns\u2019 professional development. Training and professional development goals are set at the beginning of each rotation. Professional development goals may include writing a case report or research manuscript, presenting at an academic conference, attending a training workshop, supervising practicum students,\u00a0or giving a talk in the Department of Psychiatry\u00a0or local community<em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Opportunities:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UNC CEED is\u00a0on the leading edge of eating disorder research. Our research goals are to develop a deeper understanding of the causes of eating disorders and to create more effective diagnostic, treatment, and prevention strategies for eating disorders.\u00a0Our work encompasses inquiries into genetic and environmental causes of eating disorders, prevention of eating disorders, and the development of effective treatments for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. With active collaborations in over 21 countries around the world, our work is truly global. Our projects extend from cell to society and employ contemporary methods to decode the causes of eating disorders. As an interdisciplinary research team, we bring varied perspectives together to advance science. Interns may elect to spend up to\u00a0eight\u00a0hours per week involved in research\u00a0at CEED.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervision Training and Opportunities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interns\u00a0may\u00a0have opportunities to supervise graduate-level practicum students.\u00a0\u00a0Interns will be trained and supervised by core faculty to identify the training goals of the supervisees and design a training experience tailored to supervisees\u2019 needs and goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Track Coordinator<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Christine M. Peat, PhD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clinical Supervisors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dymek-Valentine,\u00a0Doak,\u00a0Matherne, Peat, Reyes-Rodriguez<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Track Overview:\u00a0The Eating Disorders Track is designed to offer interns comprehensive experience in the assessment and\u00a0evidenced supported\u00a0treatment of eating disorders. This track offers training in both outpatient and inpatient levels of care in a specialty eating disorder clinic\u00a0at the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders (CEED). 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