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This training will cover the intersection of eating disorders within marginalized communities including: BIPOC/AAPI, LGB+, Disabled, Trans & GD+, and those who are neurodivergent. 

Topics covered will include that statistic of each population, compassionate practices for eating disorder treatment, treatments which encompass diversity, cultural competency and do no harm and how to be a more ethical provider within those communities. 

Based on the research of Parker and Harringer (2020), Minority Stress greatly affects the LGBTQ+ community including the ability to learn self-nourishing skills. By utilizing the Minority Stress Model and expanding it to BIPOC & AAPT communities we can create a more holistic and sustainable treatment model that follows the ethics around treatment inclusion (Calzo, Blashill, Brown& Aregnal, 2017). This is further cemented by the American Psychological Association’s composite research on Acculturated Stress (APA, 2022). 

As part of self-nourishing, we will discuss how past “gold-standards” of treatment caused harm to marginalized humans and how to support self-nourishment in a way that incorporated culture, cultural food and the needs presented in neurodivergent people including but not limited to: struggles navigating harmful systems that cause trauma reactions to food, a lack of self-nourishing skills, being texture, taste or smell avoidant and forgetfulness.