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ForwardSymposium Session: What’s Eating Your Clients? Understanding Epigenetics and Early Childhood Feeding Experiences to Solve Eating Problems
Dysfunctional eating behaviors such as chronic dieting, emotional overeating, an obsession with the ingredients in food, and more can be difficult to modify with standard behavioral interventions. These struggles are real and can greatly impact a person’s life, physically, socially, and emotionally.
Eating disorder and child feeding experts Jessica Setnick and Carrie Lutter will open the door to a rarely considered factor when practitioners approach patients struggling with dietary change: the lasting impact of early childhood feeding experiences, intergenerational eating patterns and epigenetically-influenced traits. Jessica and Carrie will discuss the availability of a variety of tools that will help all members of the care team explore these factors. Examples will be given of methods to approach clients in a manner that will reduce shame, encourage disclosure, and provide a message of hope, while guiding each client to additional care if needed.
This is not a webinar or course for purchase - this is a module for credit claiming for our 2025 Spring Symposium attendees and cannot be purchased or taken by non-attendees. These sessions are exclusive to our Symposium; however, the topics may be revisited in the future in the form of a webinar or self-study course.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity, health care professionals will be better able to:
- Describe the connection between infant feeding and development of self-esteem.
- Discuss the principles of the Division of Responsibility for child feeding.
- Explain the lasting influence childhood eating experiences have on adult eating behavior.
- Develop an interprofessional, weight-inclusive and supportive approach to care for clients for improved nutrition behaviors, attitudes, and health outcomes.
Additional Information
Jessica Setnick, MS, RD, CEDS-C, and creator of Eating Disorders Boot Camp and Healing Your Inner Eater workshops, has one of the most recognizable names in eating disorder nutrition, thanks to 26 years as a dietitian, hundreds of professional and community presentations, dozens of publications, and her signature training workshop, Eating Disorders Boot Camp.
Now retired from patient care, Jessica consults with dietitians around the world and fights for better insurance coverage through the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians Access to Care Project. Connect with Jessica at JessicaSetnick.com.
Carrie Lutter, LCSW, RD, LD, Certified Enneagram Practitioner, is a trusted expert in eating disorders, family dynamics, and personal growth, with over 24 years of experience helping families, individuals, and professionals thrive. Drawing on her training in family feeding dynamics, eating competence, and the Enneagram models, Carrie offers practical, compassionate guidance tailored to real-world challenges. Whether working with families to create harmony around the table or consulting with clinicians and businesses to foster understanding and growth, Carrie combines evidence-based strategies with a warm, accessible approach. Reach out to team up with Carrie at [email protected].
DISCLOSURES
The faculty and planners of this educational activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Great Valley Publishing Company is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Social workers completing this course will receive 1.5 ethics, clinical, cultural competence, or general types of continuing education credits.
Available Credit
- 1.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.