Friday, March 15, 2024

Eat­ing Dis­or­der Train­ing Ses­sion A, Part 2

Men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als are invit­ed to join us for an upcom­ing train­ing ses­sion. Speak­er Asta Kil­maite, MA, LCPC will con­tin­ue Ses­sion A, Part 2 on Diag­no­sis, Assess­ment, and Treat­ment Inter­ven­tions in Eat­ing Dis­or­der Treat­ment train­ing in-per­son on March 15^th. 

This train­ing will be a con­tin­u­a­tion of the 1/26/2024 Ses­sion A Part 1 train­ing. It is not required to have attend­ed Ses­sion A part 1 in order to reg­is­ter for Ses­sion A part 2.

Objec­tives for Ses­sion A, Part 1 and 2: 

1. Iden­ti­fy diag­nos­tic cri­te­ria for eat­ing disorders

2. Dis­cov­er the risk fac­tors for eat­ing dis­or­ders such as med­ical concerns

3. Dis­tin­guish assess­ment areas of eat­ing disorders

4. Rec­og­nize stages of chance and use moti­va­tion­al inter­view­ing to help patients change

5. Reduce and treat symp­to­ma­tol­ogy of eat­ing dis­or­ders using newest treat­ment modalities

6. Devel­op treat­ment insights into spe­cial pop­u­la­tions such as groups and adolescents

7. Present one prac­ti­cal case dur­ing the train­ing to demon­strate mate­ri­als learned

Event Details Ses­sion A, Part 2

CEUs pend­ing for IAO­DAP­CA & CBHA

Date: March 15^th, 2024

Time: 12PM — 3PM

Loca­tion: 1500 Shure Dri­ve, Arling­ton Heights, IL 60004

RSVP BY March 11^th: Men­tal Health Pro­fes­sion­als and KYC staff are wel­come to join. Please click here to reg­is­ter by email­ing Bren­da. Please include your licensure/​credentials in your email to assist with pro­cess­ing CEUs.

Cost: $35 (KYC Staff can attend at no cost)

Speak­er: Asta Kil­maite, MA, LCPC

About the Speak­er: Asta Kil­maite, MA, LCPC

Asta is the founder and exec­u­tive direc­tor of Beau­ti­ful Mind Ther­a­py, a pri­vate prac­tice that pro­vides coun­sel­ing to indi­vid­u­als, cou­ples, and families. 

Her pro­fes­sion­al train­ing began with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psy­chol­o­gy from Roo­sevelt Uni­ver­si­ty in Schaum­burg, Illi­nois, in 2008. She lat­er com­plet­ed her Mas­ter of Arts in Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sion­al Psy­chol­o­gy degree in 2011 at the same uni­ver­si­ty, grad­u­at­ing with hon­ors. She worked in a vari­ety of facil­i­ties, includ­ing sev­er­al hos­pi­tals, men­tal health cen­ters, an insur­ance com­pa­ny, and an emer­gency room. Dur­ing her time as part of an inpa­tient treat­ment team at the Alex­i­an Broth­ers Behav­ioral Health Hos­pi­tal in the eat­ing dis­or­ders and self-injury unit, she acquired exten­sive train­ing and expe­ri­ence in work­ing with eat­ing disorders.

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