Shira Collings - New Perspectives on Eating Disorders
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Mad in America
4.7 • 213 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, which comes on the heels of reports linking social media use to reduced self-esteem in teen girls, eating-disorders therapist Shira Collings discusses person-centered, socio-culturally aware approaches to dealing with disordered eating and other food-related challenges in youth (and adults).
Shira Collings, M.S., N.C.C., is Mad in America's Assistant Editor for MIA Continuing Education and the Youth Coordinator for the National Empowerment Center. She received her B.A. in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. in Counseling and Psychology from Troy University.
As a person with lived experience of recovery from diet culture, disordered eating, and trauma, Shira is passionate about supporting others in finding freedom with food, body acceptance, and the ability to be their full, authentic selves and live according to their values. She is an advocate for trauma-informed, person-centered approaches to mental health care.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice. |
| 0:13.5 | Welcome to the Mad in the Family Podcast. I'm Miranda Spencer, Family Resources Editor. |
| 0:19.8 | Our guest today is Shira Collings, MSNCC. |
| 0:24.3 | Shira is Mad in America's Assistant Editor for MIA Continuing Education. |
| 0:29.3 | She's also the youth coordinator for the National Empowerment Center and an eating disorder therapist. |
| 0:35.9 | She received her BA in communication from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS in counseling |
| 0:40.9 | and psychology from Troy University. |
| 0:43.8 | As a person with lived experience of recovery from diet culture, disordered eating, and trauma, |
| 0:49.3 | Shira is passionate about supporting others in finding freedom with food, body acceptance, |
| 0:54.0 | and the ability |
| 0:55.0 | to be their full authentic selves and live according to their values. |
| 0:59.0 | She is an advocate for trauma-informed, person-centered approaches to mental health care. |
| 1:03.6 | Welcome, Shira. |
| 1:05.1 | Hi, thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:07.3 | So our topic for discussion today is person-centered approaches to helping youth with eating disorders. |
| 1:14.9 | Eating problems are said to be one of the most deadly mental health issues, and there are many |
| 1:20.2 | different types listed in the psychiatry's diagnostic manual. So why are there so many different emotional behavioral issues associated with |
| 1:30.4 | nutrition and eating? Is there some kind of underlying thread to this? Yeah. So I think one commonality |
| 1:37.2 | and underlying thread that's present in every eating disorder and every diagnosis is restriction. |
| 1:43.9 | People respond to restriction in different ways. |
| 1:47.6 | So I think most, if not all eating disorders, begin with a period of caloric restriction, of weight |
| 1:56.0 | suppression. And sometimes people respond with more restriction, and sometimes the restriction leads people's |
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