Guidance for healthcare providers

Supporting the Healing of Black, Indigenous, and Racialized Clients

"Eating disorders (EDs) are highly complex mental health conditions – they can even mystify seasoned clinicians and it is no wonder then that many healthcare providers find it extremely challenging to address them effectively. 
Many of us who are health care providers received minimal exposure to EDs in our educational and practical training programs. Similarly, many of us received little education about racism and how it influences people’s health risks and outcomes, and scant training in cultural humility and how to provide culturally-sensitive care to Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Colour (BIPOC).

The intent of this resource is to serve as a starting point from which healthcare providers can develop their understanding of EDs among BIPOC community members and of practices they can adopt to support the healing of BIPOC clients who are struggling with an ED." 

Download the full resource here. 

Content writers:  Ary Maharaj, MEd, RP (Qualifiying), Emily Tam, MPH, RD, and Anisha Hundal, BSc

Reviewers:  Jessica Dere, PhD, CPsych, and Sarthak Matravadia, MSc, PhD

_{Edited by the NEDIC team, published 2023}

Tools and resources

Addressing biases and stigmas

• Implicit association tests
• Why Weight Stigma Matters for Eating Disorder Professionals and What We Can Do About It (webinar)
  
  

Weight-inclusive practice

• AMA Journal of Ethics - Volume 25, Number 7 - How We Over Rely on BMI
• Weight-Inclusive Care: Evidence and Best Practices (PDF)
• Wellness, Not Weight: Creating a Weight-Inclusive Practice (PDF)
• Recognizing the Fundamental Right to Be Fat: A Weight-Inclusive Approach to Size Acceptance and Healing from Sizeism (PDF)
• Weight-Inclusive Dietitians in Canada (website)
  
  

Cultural safety and humility

• Culturally Connected (website)
• Cultural Humility: Treating the Patient, Not the Illness
• Not Missing the Opportunity: Strategies to Promote Cultural Humility Among Future Nursing Faculty
• Cultural Safety and Humility
• San’yas Anti-Racism Indigenous Cultural Safety Training Program (website)
• Cultural Competency/Humility Trainings
• Culturally-Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (webinar)
  
  

Advocacy

• Introduction to advocacy coaching program for physicians and medical students