A3-b - The skinny on self-acceptance and the weight of shame: healthier eating through self-compassion, a group approach

3. Comprehensive team-based care

  • Date: Thursday, September 19, 2019
  • Concurrent Session A
  • Time: 2:30pm-3:15pm
  • Room: Pier 7
  • Style: Presentation (information provided to audience, with opportunity for audience to ask question)
  • Focus: Practical (e.g. Presentation on how to implement programs and/or practices in the team environment)
  • Target Audience: Clinical providers

Learning Objectives

The goal is to present a different program model that addresses all the complexities of nutrition through a 10 session cycle. While this program's goal is to help people achieve their goals through nutrition education and exercise, more emphasis is placed on emotional eating, understanding personal relationship with food and self. The program is facilitated by a social worker and a registered dietitian. The objective and subjective outcome measures, including weight, waist circumference, patient satisfaction and feedback will be presented.   The presentation will provide the current layout of the program, what transformation it has gone through, its impact and benefits and how it can be adapted by other FHTs.  

Summary/Abstract

  This program has been running at Taddle Creek Family Health Team since 2014 with positive outcomes including improved anthropometric measures and clinical outcomes (like cholesterol, blood pressure) but most importantly participants reported a high level of satisfaction, improved relationship with food and a better understanding of why they eat and how to recognize and start managing emotional eating. The program initially combined information from the "Craving Change" and the "Lifestyle Balance Group" programs and has evolved to incorporate important materials such as intuitive eating, mindfulness and meditation, basic principles of cognitive behavioural therapy and how to foster a positive body image. This program is designed for people who struggle with their bodies and overall health and want to achieve a better lifestyle with weight change being a positive by-product. While measures are taken every session the conversation is not centred around weight. We hope to pass on the message that addressing body weight, nutrition and emotional eating can be done effectively within the same group in a supportive and non-weight-centred manner allowing for each participant to set and achieve their personal goals.  

Presenters

  • Julia Stanislavskaia, MSc, RD, Taddle Creek Family Health Team

  • Anseh Dibaji, MSW, Taddle Creek Family Health Team

Authors/Contributors

  • Christopher Ang, Dietetic Intern at Taddle Creek Family Health; University of Toronto Masters of Public Health Program