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Commonwealth Educational Seminars Certification Exam

Select one response for each question below.

Emotional Eating: When Food and Feelings Become One.(Recorded Seminar)
By Kathleen Burns Kingsbury, LMHC.

1. Ms. Kingsbury states that she "Truly believes that everyone can fully
recover. Especially people with emotional eating issues."

a. True
b. False

2. Kingsbury stated that she has heard children say that they would
rather be dead than be fat.

a. True
b. False

3. Americans spend 50 billion dollars on dieting.

a. True
b. False

4. Women are the fastest growing population for plastic surgery.

a. True
b. False

5. Kingsbury states that one out of every two ads are about
attractiveness, and that the message is that we need to buy the product
to be more attractive.

a. True
b. False

6. One participant said that, in doing the exercise, she initially
started out feeling guilty, and then got to deeper core feelings such as
resentment and sadness.

a. True
b. False

7. Kingsbury states that everyone who is obese does not have binge
eating disorder, and that everybody whose has binge eating disorder is
not obese.

a. True
b. False

8. Although the cycle of binge eating can be addictive, Kingsbury feels
that for the most part, people are not addicted to the food.

a. True
b. False

9. Health At Every Size does not necessarily contend that you can be of
a different shape and size and be healthy.

a. True
b. False

10. Kingsbury feels that we are supposed to gain weight as we get older,
and that it is a protective function.

a. True
b. False

11. We all learned when we are hungry and when we are full when we were
babies, but society has helped us unlearn that.

a. True
b. False

12. A positive factor in the dieting cycle is the fact that denying
hunger eliminates the craving for sugary food.

a. True
b. False

13. Part of the work with clients is to teach them that there is a
reason that they binge or starve themselves and usually there is a
pretty good reason.

a. True
b. False

14. The recovery process for any eating disorder, including binge
eating, is, on average, five to seven years.

a. True
b. False

15. Only twenty percent of men have binge eating disorder.

a. True
b. False

16. Although the onset of eating disorders often occurs in adolescence,
Kingsbury has found that many people do not seek treatment until their
thirties.

a. True
b. False

17. A patient with anorexia can actually believe they have a binge
eating disorder.

a. True
b. False

18. A person with BED may actually have a distorted body image that
makes them believe they are thinner than they actually are.

a. True
b. False

19. In treating eating disorders, medication alone consistently gives
positive results.

a. True
b. False

20. People may develop eating disorders due to emotional factors,
familial factors, genetic factors and cultural factors.

a. True
b. False

21. When her client said "I'm crazy", Kingsbury replied that she was not
crazy. It's just that she was not coping.

a. True
b. False

22. Kingsbury feels that in dealing with an eating disorder, progress is
not measured on the scale.

a. True
b. False

23. A common mistake therapists can make when dealing with stages of
change in eating disorders is to assume everyone is in action mode.

a. True
b. False

24. People seeking treatment for an eating disorder seldom have
co-morbid conditions associated with it.

a. True
b. False

25. Kingsbury states that one thing an effective therapist should get
comfortable with, is getting used to clients getting angry with you.

a. True
b. False

26. Stress management is not a factor to consider in treating eating
disorders

a. True
b. false

27. The difficult part of initial treatment of eating disorders is
getting the client to shift from blaming and shaming themselves to being
compassionate with themselves.

a. True
b. False

28. Family systems therapy is not desirable in treating a client with
eating disorders.

a. True
b. False

29. Kingsbury incorporated a journal writing exercise with "Mimi" to get
her to identify her ambivalence with food, weight, diet and exercise.

a. True
b. False

30. One of the worst things a client can hear from a therapist is "This
is a chronic condition and you are never going to get well."

a. True
b. False