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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