Jordyn Hope Speaking Topics

• Invisible Victims: Understanding Munchausen by Proxy Abuse and Ethical Systems Response

  Munchausen by Proxy Abuse (MBPA), also known as medical child abuse, remains one of the most misunderstood and under-recognized forms of abuse despite its potentially lethal impact. Many professionals will encounter concerning cases throughout their careers without ever receiving formal education on identifying, documenting, or responding to this complex abuse dynamic.

  This training explores common warning signs, systemic barriers to recognition, survivor experiences, ethical multidisciplinary response, and the long-term impact of medical abuse on children and families. Jordyn Hope combines professional expertise with survivor-informed insight to help professionals move beyond stereotypes and simplistic narratives while increasing confidence in recognizing patterns of concern.

  Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of MBPA, practical tools for ethical response and documentation, and increased awareness of how systems can unintentionally perpetuate harm when abuse dynamics are misunderstood.

• Autism, Eating Disorders, and Misdiagnosis: Rethinking Care for Neurodivergent Individuals

  Autistic individuals are significantly overrepresented within eating disorder treatment settings, yet many continue to go undiagnosed, misunderstood, or harmed by approaches that fail to account for neurodivergence. Behaviors often framed as resistance, manipulation, noncompliance, or treatment failure may instead reflect unmet sensory, communication, cognitive, or support needs.

  This presentation explores the intersection of autism, eating disorders, masking, trauma, and systemic misinterpretation. Jordyn Hope draws from both professional and lived experience to challenge harmful assumptions within treatment culture and advocate for more humane, individualized, and neurodiversity-affirming care.

  Attendees will gain increased understanding of autistic presentations within eating disorder settings, common diagnostic blind spots, ways traditional treatment models can unintentionally retraumatize neurodivergent individuals, and practical considerations for creating more accessible and effective support systems.

• When Care Becomes Harm: Trauma, Healthcare Systems, and Survivor-Centered Practice

  Healthcare and mental health systems have the capacity to profoundly help people, but they also have the potential to retraumatize, silence, and cause harm, particularly for survivors, disabled individuals, and neurodivergent people navigating complex systems of care.

  This presentation examines the impact of systemic harm within healthcare, mental health, educational, and child welfare systems through a survivor-centered and trauma-informed lens. Topics may include medical trauma, institutionalization, power dynamics, diagnostic overshadowing, coercive treatment practices, and barriers to ethical care.

  Jordyn Hope invites professionals to move beyond defensiveness and toward curiosity, accountability, and relational care practices that preserve dignity while improving outcomes. Attendees will leave with a stronger understanding of how systems can unintentionally perpetuate harm and concrete ways to create safer, more humane interactions within professional settings.

• Severe ME/CFS, Disability, and the Crisis of Disbelief: Rethinking Care for Complex Chronic Illness

  People living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) frequently face profound medical neglect, disbelief, isolation, and systemic harm despite experiencing one of the most disabling chronic illnesses recognized by the World Health Organization. Many individuals with severe ME become homebound or bedbound while navigating inaccessible healthcare systems, stigma, sensory overload, and dangerous misconceptions about the condition.

  This presentation explores the lived realities of severe ME/CFS alongside broader conversations about disability justice, medical trauma, caregiver dynamics, healthcare accessibility, and the impact of disbelief within medicine and society. Jordyn Hope discusses how assumptions around motivation, anxiety, deconditioning, and psychosomatic illness can contribute to retraumatization and barriers to care.

  Attendees will leave with a stronger understanding of severe ME/CFS, practical considerations for accessibility and compassionate support, and a deeper awareness of how healthcare systems can better respond to individuals living with complex chronic illness and energy-limiting disabilities.

• The Complexity of Factitious Disorders: MBPA, FDIS, Eating Disorders, and Systems Harm

  Factitious Disorder Imposed on Self (FDIS) and Munchausen by Proxy Abuse (MBPA)/Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (FDIA) are among the most misunderstood, stigmatized, and complex presentations professionals may encounter across healthcare, mental health, eating disorder, educational, and child welfare systems. Despite the significant medical, psychological, and systemic harm that can occur, many professionals receive little to no formal education on recognizing, documenting, or ethically responding to these dynamics.

  This presentation explores the intersection of factitious disorders, eating disorders, trauma, neurodivergence, chronic illness, and systemic response. Jordyn Hope examines common warning signs, differential considerations, ethical concerns, survivor experiences, and the risks of both missed recognition and harmful overpathologizing. Special attention is given to how stigma, bias, sensationalism, and misunderstanding can negatively impact genuinely ill, disabled, or neurodivergent individuals.

  Attendees will gain a more nuanced understanding of factitious presentations across systems while learning practical strategies for ethical documentation, multidisciplinary collaboration, survivor-centered care, and reducing retraumatization. This session encourages professionals to move beyond simplistic narratives toward more thoughtful, compassionate, and clinically informed responses to complex presentations.

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