Clinical Intervention with Eating Disorders

Undergraduate / Graduate

Eating disorders are linked to significant psychiatric and medical morbidity, necessitating evidence-informed practitioners who can bridge current empirical research with a commitment to socially and relationally just, anti-oppressive practice. This course surveys critical perspectives on feeding and eating challenges across the developmental spectrum. By framing our understanding through practice ethics, intersectional awareness, and decolonizing wellness, we will move from individual pathology to context, and apply a person-in-environment lens. Students will examine how genetics and neurobiology, family systems, culture, environment, and social structures interact to influence disordered eating and inform our interventions.