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This workshop consists of two major components: understanding the nature of childhood obesity and providing clinical services. Factors responsible for the current epidemic will be outlined, as will the current definition of the disorder. Statistical data regarding the epidemiology of weight disorders in childhood will be provided in order to give a perspective of the problem. Various obesity trajectories and their differential diagnostic and treatment issues will be thoroughly explored. The intervention section intends to help clinicians to evaluate salient factors in assessing the obese child and to identify appropriate goals and treatment methods. The course will provide vital information for all mental health professionals involved in the care of overweight or obese children.
Dr. Panzer is a practitioner with more than 35 years of clinical experience with children, teens, adults, and families. Dr. Panzer is currently the Mental Health Consultant to the Live Light Live Right Pediatric Obesity Program at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He received a PhD with Distinction in social work from Columbia University and has served as a clinical instructor at Downstate Medical Center (at State University of New York) and adjunct professor at Columbia University. He has published in the areas of sudden infant death syndrome, crisis intervention, and ADHD. Dr. Panzer’s interest in childhood obesity has resulted in published articles in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, ICAN: Infant, Child, and Adolescent Nutrition, and ADHD Report. He has presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, and the National Association of Social Workers. Dr. Panzer is passionate about educating.
Health care providers are trapped in the double bind between the need to address concerns about weight while simultaneously not inducing disordered eating and/or doing more harm than good. This interactive course, led by clinician, advocate, psychiatrist and certified eating disorder specialist Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, will provide education regarding relevant research on “fat science”; and will emphasize the impact of focus on weight versus health on the evolution of body dissatisfaction, binge eating, weight cycling and weight gain, with attention to long term outcome. Case and media presentations will be used.
This course will provide strategies which promote health and well-being; review medical and psychiatric issues that are frequently overlooked by health care providers; review risk factors for the development of disordered eating; address weight bias; and emphasize the psychological response when eating when simultaneously under the mandate to restrict. The AED Guidelines for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs (presenter is a co-author) will be reviewed along with an emphasis on the principals on which it was developed.
Dr. Oliver-Pyatt received her specialty training at NYC-Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She has held faculty positions at NYU, Albert Einstein School of Medicine and University of Nevada School of Medicine. Prior to founding Oliver-Pyatt Centers, she founded Center for Hope of the Sierras and Eating Recovery and Wellness Center of Nevada. She served as the Medical Director for the State of Nevada Division of Mental Health and Disability Services, Medical Director and Chief of Staff of Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health and has received Senatorial Recognition for her commitment to the mental health community. Dr. Oliver-Pyatt serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals and the Binge Eating Disorder Association.
Dr. Oliver-Pyatt co-authored the Academy for Eating Disorder’s Guidelines for Obesity Prevention Programs. Her book, Fed Up! The Breakthrough Ten Step No Diet Fitness Plan, written to prevent dieting and disordered eating, has been featured in a variety of national publications. She lectures both nationally and internationally on the topic of eating disorders.