Xerrada al Saló de Graus el 29 d'octubre a les 13:00 hores

Nom ponent: Tatjana Van Strien (Rodboud Universiteit, Nijemegen, Països Baixos)

Nom de la xarrada: Causes of Emotional Eating and Matched Treatment of Obesity.

The conference is a complementary activity that is organized in the Faculty of Psychology

Prof.dr.Tatjana van Strien (Groningen, 1954) is endowned professor Psychology of eating styles at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Associate Professor at the department of Clinical Psychology and at the Behavioural Science Institute of Radboud University Nijmegen. She is one the most important researchers in emotional eating, eating disorders and obesity, and author the DEBQ (Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire) translated into more than 15 languages. In the present conference, Prof. Van Strien is going to present research about eating in response to negative emotions (EE) and how it may be an explanatory factor of the weight regain of many dieters. Possible causes of EE are high dietary restraint, poor interoceptive awareness, alexithymia, emotion dysregulation and a reversed hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) stress axis. EE may be the outcome of inadequate parenting or depressive feelings in interaction with genetic susceptibility. There is also robust evidence that EE is a mediator between depression and obesity. These results suggest that the treatment of obese people with high EE should not focus on calorie-restricted diets but on emotion regulation skills.