Ethical Considerations in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Join us for a complimentary continuing education event hosted by Accanto Health. Presented by Krista Crotty, LMFT, PsyD.

During this presentation, we will review common ethical principles as they apply to mental health and eating disorder treatment. The primary goal of this session is to start a dialogue among eating disorder treatment providers and to develop a forum to support each other with difficult decisions relating to eating disorder treatment. We will also discuss involuntary hospitalizations as well as the risks of remaining at a lower level of care when a higher level of care is...Read more clinically and medically indicated. At the culmination of the workshop, participants will walk through a series of ethical dilemmas and discuss how to problem-solve.

Accanto Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Accanto Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This program provides 2.0 continuing education credits.

This activity has been approved as a continuing professional education activity by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, the credentialing agency for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Accanto Health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP no.7166. Programs that do not qualify are clearly identified. Accanto Health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

You are responsible for your individual requirements as stipulated by your licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

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Learning Objectives

  • Identify the 8 common ethical principles that are utilized in problem-solving ethical dilemmas
  • Identify how to improve patient resistance to treatment and/or recommendations and leave with new strategies to implement in the treatment setting
  • Apply a framework with which to clinically and psychologically understand why patients at times to desire to remain at a lower level of care

Learning Levels

  • Intermediate level course

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Live Interactive Webinar

11:00 AM CDT - 01:00 PM CDT

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EARN 2 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Krista Crotty, LMFT, PsyD

Krista Crotty, LMFT, PsyD

Director of Clinical Outreach Education and Brain-Based Therapy
Krista is The Director of Clinical Outreach Education and Brain-Based Therapy at Accanto Health. Clinically, she draws from a variety of methods including TBT-S, EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, FBT, and acceptance and commitment therapy and often incorporates the use of the creative process in conjunction with the more traditional therapeutic process. She earned her Master of Science from Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Psychology and her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in family and pediatrics from Azusa Pacific University. She trained at Harbor UCLA medical center and Loma Linda Children's Hospital in neuropsych. Away from work, Krista loves being a mom to her three boys, playing outside, going on adventures with her family, skiing, hiking, biking, and camping.

CE Information - Earn 2 CE Credit Hours

CE Approvals

Commission on Dietetic Registration
This activity has been approved as a continuing professional education activity by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, the credentialing agency for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
American Psychological Association
Accanto Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Accanto Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
National Board for Certified Counselors
Accanto Health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP no.7166. Programs that do not qualify are clearly identified. Accanto Health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

CE Process Info

Each professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by their licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Please note: You must attend "live" (in real-time) to earn CE credits. No partial credits. 

Before the event, you will receive an email from CE-Go with access to the virtual event. After the event, you will receive access to your evaluation and continuing education certificate via a personalized "attendee dashboard" link, hosted on the CE-Go website. This link and access to the virtual event will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event.

Upon accessing the CE-Go "attendee dashboard", you will be able to:

  • Complete evaluation forms for the event
  • Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the CE-Go platform, please contact CE-Go at 888-498-5578 or by email at support@ce-go.com Please Note: Emails for this event will come from "support@ce-go.com".

If you have any continuing education related questions, please contact outreach@accanto.com.

Please make sure to check your spam/junk folder in case those emails get "stuck". We'd also suggest "whitelisting" support@ce-go.com. This tells your email client that you know this sender and trust them, which will keep emails from this contact at the top of your inbox and out of the junk folder.