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Break the Silence: Tools for Help, Hope and Healing




Dates: 09/18/08 - 09/20/08

Location:
Renaissance Austin Hotel
Austin, TX

Web site: www.myneda.org

Summary:
Plan to attend the one national conference on eating disorders where families learn from each other and from the nation's leading treatment experts. Program highlights include: Family basic sessions on the progression of eating disorder care, insurance issues, medical complications, sibling issues and more. Prevention strategies for eating disorders and body image issues among girls and boys. Effective parent/teen group facilitation strategies Understanding how cultural and ethnic differences affect eating disorder treatment and diagnosis ยท General sessions by leading eating disorder treatment experts, authors and speakers, and a panel discussion with Miss America Kirsten Haglund, actress Scarlett Pomers, tennis pro Zina Garrison and champion triathlete and former Marine Andrew Preston on the pressure to be thin in high profile professions. Supermodel, author and body image activist Emme will moderate the discussion.


Record number 1851

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