Taking Care: Working Through Implicit Bias to Practice with Size Inclusivity and Social Justice
Learn about weight stigma and how to address it in your practice while earning 3 Category II CEUs.
As helping professionals, it goes without saying that we want to help. We work to ensure that all people, regardless of their ability, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, or education are treated with dignity and respect. We work to ensure that all people have access to the resources they need to lead safe, healthy, and meaningful lives. It is our life’s work.
But a group of people, namely, people who live in bodies larger than society’s arbitrary ideal, are all too often forgotten in this work. As a result, not only are we not helping, we may be doing harm.
But when we know better, we do better.
This 3 credit CE course will provide an opportunity for participants to explore weight stigma, including what it is, the harmful ways in which it manifests, and the social worker's role in addressing it.
Note: While this training is for individuals at all levels of awareness on the topic, it is important to note that it is an introduction to the topic. As such, individuals new to the material may have questions or commentary that contain degrees of diet culture and/or anti-fat bias. We invite everyone to participate at their comfort level, and we encourage all present to take care of themselves as necessary.
Kate Morris, LICSW is a Clinical Social Worker and founder of Among the Trees Counseling and Wellness. Kate has worked in a variety of therapeutic roles with individuals at every life stage. She has particular interest and training in disordered eating and eating disorders. Kate is a non-diet mental health clinician and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor practicing from within the Health at Every Size paradigm. She works with clients to establish trust in their bodies and discover a relationship with food that is joyful and free.