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 Psychotherapist,
Author, Nationally
Recognized Speaker and
Group Facilitator,
eating disorder
specialist Abigail H.
Natenshon, MA, LCSW,
GCFP is a
psychotherapist
specializing in the
treatment of eating
disorders, who for the
past 34 years, has
immersed herself in
helping parents help
their children recover
from these deadly
disorders. As a renowned
expert in the field of
eating disorders, child
rearing, and parenting,
she has made guest
appearances on the Oprah
Winfrey Show and The
John Walsh Show. The
author of When Your
Child Has an Eating
Disorder: A Step-by-Step
Workbook for Parents and
Other Caregivers, she
hosts three informative
and reader-friendly web
sites,
www.empoweredparents.com,
www.empoweredkidZ.com
and
www.treatingeatingdisorders.com,
Abigail is also a Guild
Certified Feldenkrais
Practitioner.
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Workshops and training
SEMINARS OFFERED for
Professionals
Keynote Address
Trends and
Challenges in Treating
Eating Disorders
Harnessing
Diversity to Optimize
Cure
Learning Objectives
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ED, like the people
who treat them, are
cut from the fabric
of complexity.
They are diverse in
their origins and
triggers, in the
forms that they
take, in their
symptoms, in whom
they afflict and
during which life
stages, in their
effects on body and
mind and in their
duration. Their
symptoms are so
diverse as to
resemble a
thumbprint. In their
complexity, ED
demand the input of
diverse
disciplines. In
diversity there is
strength. The
treatment challenge
is to harness an
otherwise daunting
diversity, and to
optimize it.
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Eating disorders
heal through
connections…which
exist between the
health professional
and him/herself,
professional and
patient,
professional and
patient’s family,
professionals and
colleagues, patient
and family. The most
significant of all
connections is the
healing connection
that ultimately
occurs between the
patient and his/her
authentic self.
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Professionals and
parents will learn
that eating
disorders are
integrative,
"systems" diseases
with respect to
their causes, their
impact on the
individual and
family, and their
treatment.
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Treating
professionals
require a
comprehensive
perspective of a
comprehensive
disease and
treatment system, a
unique and
specialized skill
set, and finely
honed personal
boundaries within
the context of a
versatile and novel
use of the
professional self in
the face of
patients, families
and professional
team.
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Eating disorder
professionals need
to recognize and
support the parents'
capacity to become
their recovering
child's greatest
asset and resource.
The Clinician's Unique
Use of Self in Eating
Disorder Treatment
In schools and agency
settings; hospitals,
medical offices and
residential communities;
private and group
practices; practitioners
and physicians typically
feel inadequately
prepared and/or
reluctant to provide
care for high risk,
hard-to-treat and
typically resistant
eating disorder cases.
Practitioners typically
feel compelled to refer
these cases outside
their practices, and in
so doing, discover that
adequate professional
resources may not exist.
An in-depth
understanding of eating
disorders and the unique
personal and technical
requirements for their
cure can enhance a
practitioner's
confidence and
facilitate success in
creating a healing
relationship with
patient and family.
Working within a systems
framework as part of an
inclusive and
collaborative team
enables healing even in
the face of limited
professional resources.
Learning objectives:
Practitioners will learn
to develop
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A unique set of
treatment skills
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A productive
therapeutic
relationship with
patients based on a
unique and versatile
use of the
practitioner's
core-self and
presence in the
therapeutic moment.
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A discussion of
evidence-based
protocols
Empowering parents to
Become Eating Disorder
Recovery Advocates
By partnering with
parents, professionals
create healing alliances
that enhance and support
the recoveries of eating
disordered children.
This address will
discuss the
professional’s role in
mentoring parents of
eating disordered
children to become a
proactive and
integrative part of a
multi-disciplinary
treatment effort,
healing and supporting
their child through a
timely and lasting
recovery.
The most timely and
sustained recovery
outcomes occur when
parents and families are
encouraged to optimize
healing connections with
self, spouse, their
recovering child, and
the child's treatment
team. This workshop will
provide strategies for
professionals to use to
access and integrate the
power of parents,
assisting parents to
access their own
potential to mentor the
healing process as
advocates for child and
treatment team.
Educating and empowering
parents enhances and
streamlines the work of
health professionals,
cutting the recovery
time and the cost of
treatment services to
eating disordered
children. Visit
www.empoweredparents.com
and click on the link,
http://www.empoweredparents.com/pages/Article11.htm
to learn more about the
role of parents in a
child’s eating disorder
recovery.
Learning Objectives:
Professionals learn to
provide parents the
empowering assistance
they require in their
efforts to:
Reconnecting body,
self and cognitive mind
through movement:
Treating Body Image,
Eating Disorders and
Self-Harm Disturbances
through the Work of Dr.
Moshe Feldenkrais
The Feldenkrais Method
is a technique that
enhances movement,
self-esteem and
neurological function.
Through gentle and
pleasurable movement,
the work of Dr.
Feldenkrais can enhance
eating disorder recovery
when used in conjunction
with more traditional
psychodynamic,
cognitive-behavioral,
family systems-oriented
psychotherapy and group
therapies. The method
creates a more positive
body image in patients
suffering from eating
disorders, poor
self-esteem, the post
trauma of abuse and
self-mutilation. This
presentation includes
case vignettes and an
experiential Feldenkrais
demonstration lesson
including workshop
participants sitting in
chairs.
Learning Objectives:
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This workshop
demonstrates the
power of the
Feldenkrais Method
(Awareness through
Movement©) to
reorganize the
central nervous
system by creating a
novel of sense of
self and well-being
in participants who
struggle with eating
disorders, mood
disorders, and body
image
disturbances…or, who
are simply fatigued
after a long day of
learning and would
enjoy the
opportunity to
become refreshed and
renewed through a
Feldenkrais
“lesson.”
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Participants gain an
experiential
understanding of the
method’s capacity to
provide an in-depth
awareness of self,
creating new options
for thinking,
behaving and healing
through its unique
capacity to access
parts of the brain
through channels
beyond cognition and
language.
Empowering Mothers
Through the Child’s
Recovery:
When disempowered
mothers have the
opportunity to create a
constructive alliance
with their child through
appropriate involvement
in the child’s eating
disorder treatment and
recovery efforts, they
typically parallel their
child’s emotional
growth. This workshop
explores the proposition
that promoting
appropriate, empowered
and proactive parenting
during a child’s eating
disorder recovery
empowers mother, child,
the recovery process,
and the parent/child
relationship, while
preventing relapse.
For more information or
to request a workshop,
contact Abbie
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