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Clients often present with weight concerns and related distress (e.g., depression, body image concerns, weight stigma) that are not effectively treated with behavioral weight loss. Weight loss treatment also presents risks to clients. Self-acceptance-based treatments are emerging to enhance clients’ mental and physical health without weight loss. In this intermediate workshop, participants learn about the need for and evidence supporting self-acceptance approaches for weight concerns, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Health At Every Size (HAES®), as well as Accept Yourself!—which integrates ACT and HAES to enhance the mental and physical health of psychologically distressed large-bodied women.  Original webcast date: August 5, 2020.

Learning Objectives

1. Challenge stereotypes about current research on weight loss interventions, healthful eating approaches, and causes and health effects of higher body weight.
2. Summarize current research on antifat stigma and discrimination and self-assess clinician-implicit and explicit antifat biases.
3. Provide a rationale for an acceptance-based approach to health for weight-concerned clients and summarize the evidence supporting the approach.