Parent Relationship Can Be Such a Protective Factor

Scout Silverstein, (They/Them)

Happy International Transgender Visibility Day!

Today’s conversation with Scout Silverstein helps give us supportive language for our clients and their loved ones around gender affirming care.

Care notes include asking preferred pronouns and settings to use them.

Exploration vs Current/Asserted Gender.

Parents wonder if it’s a phase. Scout shares about “Regret Rates”

Look at the medical profile with care: bone density, labs, anatomy, chromosomes, menstruation, hormones

Abbi asks about body positivity, Scout proposes body neutrality and body liberation

Cognitive dissonance interventions.

The FEDUP Conference – See below for discount code, through May 1.

“Holding more possibilities”

Scout’s "Seasonings":

Minus 18.org – app to help us practice scenarios

MEDA Conference

Favorite books:

• Being mortal
• Prison by any other name
• Saving our lives
• Fiction - The Story of Edgar Sartell, by DavidWroblewski,

BIO:

Scout is a transgender and intersex queer Virgo with an educational background in health policy & public health. Within the eating disorder field, they focus on staff development training, academic research, case consultations, policy, and intervention design. They center their time outside of the eating disorder field working on legislation to protect intersex bodily autonomy, spoiling their rescue dog, and learning from the narratives of those surrounding them.

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We are proud to support the FEDUP Conference taking place in hybrid form May 25-27, 2023. The in person portion will be held in New York City at The Martinique Hotel. In the field of eating disorders, there is often a large disconnect between researchers, advocates, clinicians, and those we provide care for. This is a conference for researchers, advocates, and clinicians in the eating disorder field where all attendees are empowered to participate, share their expertise, and learn from one another so that we can incorporate approaches that work - for our patients, our communities, and ourselves. This conference is unique in that all sessions are completely participatory rather than delivered in lecture form. You can register here using the discount code "SEASONEDRD" for 30% off your registration until May 1.

With your host Beth Harrell

IG  @beth.harrell.cedss 

Supervision Freebies 

We are proud to support the FEDUP Conference taking place in hybrid form May 25-27, 2023. The in person portion will be held in New York City at The Martinique Hotel. In the field of eating disorders, there is often a large disconnect between researchers, advocates, clinicians, and those we provide care for. This is a conference for researchers, advocates, and clinicians in the eating disorder field where all attendees are empowered to participate, share their expertise, and learn from one another so that we can incorporate approaches that work - for our patients, our communities, and ourselves. This conference is unique in that all sessions are completely participatory rather than delivered in lecture form. You can register here using the discount code "SEASONEDRD" for 30% off your registration until May 1. Thank you so much!! We really appreciate it! Short bio: Scout is a transgender and intersex queer Virgo with an educational background in health policy & public health. Within the eating disorder field, they focus on staff development training, academic research, case consultations, policy, and intervention design. They center their time outside of the eating disorder field working on legislation to protect intersex bodily autonomy, spoiling their rescue dog, and learning from the narratives of those surrounding them.