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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, and the host of 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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New Eating Disorder Workshop being offered!
Eating Disorder Survival for Kids and Parents:
Empowering Parents as Recovery Advocates
Presenter: Abigail H. Natenshon, MA, LCSW, GCFP
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:
A FULL DAY WORKSHOP would include:
- A power-point keynote address offering parents the unprecedented recognition they deserve for the positive role they can, and should, play in affecting successful eating disorder recovery outcomes in their child. In my experience, knowledgeable parenting has been proven to enhance effective, timely, and lasting recoveries in children. Self-advocacy is a prerequisite for parents to become effective advocates for their child, the treatment team, the recovery process, and the overall quality of the parent/child relationship.
- Breakout groups for families wanting to share similar personal experiences
- Multi-family group therapy sessions, facilitated by Abigail. Ninety minute multi-family groups would provide self-selected workshop participants the opportunity to experience a more deeply personal experience of community, self-awareness, and positive change. Parent and professional workshop participants choosing not to become actively involved in the group therapy experience would enjoy the option to learn more about themselves, recovery, and the therapy process by observing the therapy group in process through a "fishbowl" format.
- Workshop participants will enjoy the opportunity to experience a unique opportunity for body awareness and body image transformation through a two-hour experiential Feldenkrais session. This workshop segment would introduce this potent, atraditional, adjunct treatment technique that has been proven to enhance the processes of self-awareness, self-perception, problem-solving in eating disorder recovery. This Awareness Through Movement* workshop can be enjoyed by participants while seating or standing at their seats.
A HALF DAY WORKSHOP would include:
- A power-point keynote address offering parents the unprecedented recognition they deserve for the positive role they can, and should, play in affecting successful eating disorder recovery outcomes in their child. In my experience, knowledgeable parenting has been proven to enhance effective, timely, and lasting recoveries in children. Self-advocacy is a prerequisite for parents to become effective advocates for their child, the treatment team, the recovery process, and the overall quality of the parent/child relationship.
- Multi-family group therapy sessions, facilitated by Abigail. Ninety minute multi-family groups would provide self-selected workshop participants the opportunity to experience a more deeply personal experience of community, self-awareness, and positive change. Parent and professional workshop participants choosing not to become actively involved in the group therapy experience would enjoy the option to learn more about themselves, recovery, and the therapy process by observing the therapy group in process through a "fishbowl" format.
Optional:
- Breakout groups for families wanting to share similar personal experiences.
- Workshop participants will enjoy the opportunity to experience a unique opportunity for body awareness and body image transformation through a two-hour experiential Feldenkrais session. This workshop segment would introduce this potent, atraditional, adjunct treatment technique that has been proven to enhance the processes of self-awareness, self-perception, problem-solving in eating disorder recovery. This Awareness Through Movement* workshop can be enjoyed by participants while seating
For more information or to request a workshop, contact Abbie at Contact Me
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