Eating Disorders Treatment Team
Mission Statement
The Eating Disorders Treatment Team provides help for students who are struggling with an eating disorder, weight issues, and body image concerns. The team consists of medical providers, counselors, and a registered dietician. The team offers coordinated outpatient treatment and assists students in accessing community resources for inpatient and intensive, long-term outpatient treatment. This multidisciplinary team meets regularly to manage the care of students with eating concerns. The team provides psychoeducational programming to increase awareness of risk and preventative factors in the development of eating disorders.
Services Offered by the Eating Disorders Treatment TeamCounseling Component: Counselors provide short-term individual and long-term group therapy aimed at symptom reduction, increasing understanding of the communicative and psychological function the eating disordered symptoms serve, increasing the ability to express emotions and learning to define oneself in other ways than body size and food intake.
Medical Component: Health care providers will evaluate the overall health of the student, manage the medical consequences of disordered eating, prescribe medication, and recommend mental health and nutritional interventions.
Nutrition Component: The goal of nutrition counseling is to replace disordered eating patterns with more organized, healthy eating patterns. The registered dietitian provides education and individualized intervention via a collaborative relationship. Nutrition counseling is supportive of concurrent therapies and medical treatment.
Health Education Component: Health Education Component: The team coordinates and provides educational programs throughout the year on nutrition, body image, and eating disorders. The goals of these programs are to increase campus awareness of how to have a healthy relationship with food and one's body and to prevent the development of eating disorders.
How to Access ServicesIf you are concerned that someone you know may have a problem with weight, nutrition, body image or other eating problems, please refer them to Counseling Services, Student Health Services, or the dietician. After an initial assessment, the provider will determine what type and level of care is needed including the coordinated care afforded by the Eating Disorders Treatment team.
Counseling Services
120 Richmond Quad (North Campus)
716-645-2720
Student Health Services
Michael Hall (South Campus)
716-829-3316
Dietitian
Student Union (North Campus)
716-645-2837
