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French Toast for Breakfast: Declaring Peace With Emotional Eating - Updated

15 CE Hours
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Course retiring in 41 days . Complete your exam by Dec 31st, 2025.

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About the Course

French Toast for Breakfast explores in depth how to help clients declare peace with their emotional eating problems. Ms. Cohen believes everyone’s eating disorder is as unique as a fingerprint, and she offers an individualized and comprehensive plan that clinicians can implement for each client. Ms. Cohen, who has been in Director of The New York Center for Eating Disorders for 50 years, provides structured questionnaires that both therapists and clients can use to determine the right path of recovery for them. She explores the fear of success which often leads to relapse, how to decode the fear of fat, the role of grief, anger, and sexuality, and the latest cutting edge information on medication. Replete with case examples from her practice, this book will offer clinicians strategies and techniques to help clients effectively declare peace with eating problems and the underlying psychological issues that fuel them.

This course is based on the book, French Toast for Breakfast: Declaring Peace With Emotional Eating – Updated created by Mary Anne Cohen, L.C.S.W. in 2016.

Publication Details

Publication Date: 1st Edition 2016

Course Material Author

Mary Anne Cohen, L.C.S.W.
Mary Anne Cohen is a professional psychotherapist since 1972 and director of The New York Center for Eating Disorders. She is author of Lasagna for Lunch: Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating (New Forge Press, 2013) and French Toast for Breakfast: Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating (Gurze, 1995, Spanish Edition, 1997). She has also hosted her own radio show on eating disorders in New York on AM and FM radio. Ms. Cohen has also appeared on national television and lectures extensively to professional and community groups. She has served on the Board of Directors of The Eating Disorder Council of Long Island and is a member of the National Eating Disorders Association. Her professional associations include the Academy of Certified Social Workers, the Society of Clinical Social Workers, she is a Diplomate of the National Association of Social Workers, and Board Certified by The American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work.

Mary Anne Cohen, L.C.S.W. authored the material only, and was not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Course Creator

Mary Anne Cohen

Mary Anne Cohen is a professional psychotherapist since 1972 and Director of The New York Center for Eating Disorders. She is author of Lasagna for Lunch: Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating (New Forge Press, 2013) and French Toast for Breakfast: Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating (New Forge Press, 2016, Spanish Edition, 1997).

Target Audience

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors and social workers who seek knowledge about treatment plans for emotional eating disorders. It is appropriate for all levels of participants’ knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Identify the various expressions of emotional eating including the symptoms and psychodynamics.
  2. 2 Explain the psychological meanings behind the fear of fat and how to decode this obsession.
  3. 3 Evaluate the tools to create an individualized and comprehensive treatment plan for each client by integrating behavioral treatment techniques and psychodynamics.
  4. 4 Define the 28 key questions for interviewing an eating disorder client.
  5. 5 Illustrate knowledge of the latest medications used in the treatment of eating disorders.
  6. 6 Describe the seven reasons why patients sabotage their success in resolving their eating disorders.
  7. 7 Discuss the parallels between eating disorders, personality styles of patients, and the transference reactions they develop in therapy.
  8. 8 Explain the steps needed to recover from relapse.

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Course Creator

Mary Anne Cohen – Receives royalties as a published author.

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There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

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Course Details

15 CE Hours
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Course 103289

Related Topics

Eating Disorder Emotional Eating

Availability

This course is available until Dec 31st, 2025.

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