CONCURRENT SESSION – PART 1A

Emotional and Binge Eating After Bariatric Surgery

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Dr. Stephanie Cassin, PhD., C.Psych.
Toronto Metropolitan University
 

 

Dr. Cassin is a Clinical and Health Psychologist who received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Calgary. She is Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at Toronto Metropolitan University, and Director of the Healthy Eating and Lifestyle (HEAL) Lab. In addition, she holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Prior to working in academia, she was a staff clinical psychologist in the Bariatric Surgery Program at Toronto Western Hospital. Dr. Cassin’s research interests are in the area of disordered eating, food addiction, obesity, and bariatric surgery. Her current program of research focuses primarily on psychosocial predictors of bariatric surgery outcome, and psychosocial interventions with the potential to improve outcomes.   

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe typical changes in binge eating and emotional eating from pre- to post-surgery
  • Discuss the prevalence of binge eating and emotional eating among post-operative bariatric surgery patients
  • Explain the impact of post-operative binge eating and emotional eating on physical and mental health outcomes
  • List tools to assess binge eating and emotional eating 
  • Discuss psychosocial treatment strategies to improve binge eating and emotional eating