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For
Psychotherapists
and Counselors
The Unique Use
of the
Therapist’s Self
in the Treatment
of Eating
Disorders
There has been,
and continues to
be, gaping holes
in the formal
education of
practitioners
concerning the
treatment of
eating
disorders.
Though highly
competent in the
practice of
psychotherapy,
most therapists
who treat eating
disorders are
essentially
untrained and
unprepared to
recognize and
face the unique
requirements and
challenges that
set this
treatment
specialty apart.
Currently, there
is no universal,
comprehensive
and fully
integrative
system for
approaching the
management and
treatment of
these cases. By
failing to
recognize what
they do not
know,
practitioners
typically resort
to "default"
modes of care,
randomly doing
what they know
best, which may
or may not
apply. Highly
lethal disorders
leave little
margin for
error, demanding
intentional and
timely action
and change.
Unique Features
of Eating
Disorders Define
Unique
Implications for
Professional
Caregivers.
Though in some
respects
elusive, the
tools of this
treatment trade
are actually
supremely
accessible,
disarmingly
simple and
hardly strangers
to us. We know
them all; we
simply have to
learn which to
use, when, where
and how, in the
unique context
of these
disorders. In
addition,
professionals
need to learn
how to access
their most
valuable
personal
resource of
all…themselves.
This workshop
will make a
substantial dent
in filling in
some of these
voids in
knowledge; it
will spotlight
the unique
requirements of
care for these
uniquely
demanding and
integrative
disorders as
well as the
demand for a
differential use
of the
practitioner's
self in
shepherding this
healing process
forward.
Workshop
Objectives:
Participants
will
1. Recognize the
unique qualities
that set ED
practice and
treatment apart.
2. Discover the
unique personal
challenges
required of
professionals
treating ED.
3. Learn
effective
treatment tools,
strategies and
nuts-and-bolts
practice
techniques
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