Today, Kathy welcomes Heather Hower, MSW, LICSW, ACSW, QCSW, and their topic is definitions of recovery.
Heather Hower, MSW, LICSW, ACSW, QCSW, serves as a Project Director and Faculty Research Associate at Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School and School of Public Health, and a Faculty Associate Specialist at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research. She is on the Board of the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), including Conference Committee Co-Chair and Research Advisory Council (RAC), is an eating disorders grant reviewer for the Department of Defense (DOD), a Faculty Member and conference presenter at Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), a conference proposal reviewer for the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP), a manuscript reviewer for the International Journal of Eating Disorders (IJED), an advocate for the Eating Disorder Coalition (EDC), a research assistant for Jenni Schaefer’s forthcoming book, and a writer of eating disorder blogs for NEDA, Jenni Schaefer, Project HEAL, and Medium. Heather’s current research interests include capitalizing on eating disorder traits as strengths, promoting temperament-based treatments, and defining recovery.