Stop feeling compelled to refer your eating disorder treatment cases out of your psychotherapy practice.

Begin to experience the professional self-confidence that comes with helping your eating disordered patients achieve previously evasive life-saving changes.

Fill the ranks of a field that has, to date, known a shortage of qualified care-givers, leaving approximately two-thirds of eating disordered individuals undiagnosed and without adequate care.


Eating disordered patients comprise one of the most recovery resistant patient populations; as at-risk, resistant and hard-to-reach treat population they represent, these patients are typically known for inciting professional "burn-out." In actual fact, the challenging nature of these treatment problems and all too frequent less than successful outcomes may not originate with the disorder or the patient at all, but with the treating clinician, who all too frequently fails to fully comprehend the unique demands of these disorders, their treatment, and the nature of their recovery. Many practitioners remain unclear about which skill sets to use, with whom… when… why… how…and in what context. Eating disorders, when treated early and effectively, are fully curable in approximately 80% of cases. These are gratifying cases to treat, and their recovery results in effective, mature, and gratified individuals testifying their gratitude to "have their lives back," with parents and families grateful to "have their loved ones back."


Webinar Logistics

• Dates: Sunday and/or Monday evenings, 8 weeks consecutively.
• Time: 6:00PM Pacific Time, 7:00 Mountain Time, 8:00 Central Time, 9:00 Eastern Time.
• Format: a 50 minute Power Point lecture, followed by questions, case presentations and group discussion.
• Fee: The fee per session is $45 per 90 minute session, each offering 1.5 Continuing Education Units. Participants may enroll in the entire course or in specific sessions. Payments will be accepted through check or credit card.
   
• Interested in participating? Email me at anatenshon@empoweredparents.com to sign up for classes or express interest in participation, as well as day preference. Time and dates to be finalized.

Suggested reading:
Doing What Works: An Integrative System for the Treatment of Eating Disorders from Diagnosis to Recovery (NASW Press 2009) by Abigail Natenshon

When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder: A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers (Jossey Bass Publishers 1999) by Abigail Natenshon

Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders Fairburn, CF. (2008 Guilford)

Mindfulness and Psychotherapy by Germer, Siegel and Fulton (2005 Guilford)

The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science Doidge, Norman (Viking 2007)

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation. Siegel, Daniel (2010 Bantam)

 

Workshop Series Goals

• To convey the uniqueness and specificity of treatment and case management requirements for eating disorder specialty care.
• To highlight the demand for the therapist's integrative, versatile and mindful use of self and skills in treating the eating disordered patient and family.
• To teach novice and veteran practitioners alike to hone existing skills while learning new strategies to secure successful treatment outcomes.
• To bring about a timely and effective increase in the number of fully diagnosed and recovered eating disordered individuals.
• To bring practitioners into the twenty-first century by explicating the power and significance of neuro-plasticity brain research to enhance healing through the re-integration of the patient's self.
• To integrate traditional evidence-based "best practice" tools with innovative trends towards mindfulness in psychotherapy, the power of the patient/therapist relationship, and embodied mindfulness techniques in accessing and integrating the recovered Self.

 

Description of the 8 Workshop Series


Lecture #1: Knowledge is power

Understand what eating disorders are and what they are not, what eating disorder recovery is truly about, what sets these disorders apart from the treatment of other mental health problems and how healing happens. In preparation for this professional work, therapists need to put their own "personal house" in order through the potency of self-assessment., emotional integration, and transference acknowledgement.



Lecture #2: Capturing an elusive diagnosis

Participants discover the facets of eating disorder diagnosis that differentiates this challenging process from the diagnosis of other mental health disorders. The first and most pivotal of all the treatment sessions, the dynamic of the initial diagnostic assessment of pathology gets replayed throughout the eating disorder treatment process in the form of an on-going assessment of recovery progress.



Lecture #3: The critical first session(s); sitting down with your patient

This session(s) might well be considered a form of crisis intervention in assessing current needs and past history, while tending to emotional requirements and the logistics of creating an action plan. In so doing, therapists facilitate the patient's and family's knowledge and trust in themselves and in their capacity to recover, in the therapist, and in the therapeutic process, insuring treatment engagement.



Lecture #4: Engaging your patient in treatment

This workshop describes the need for the therapist's versatile personal and professional skill sets and access to diverse treatment approaches. Describing how people change and heal, how treators need to offer appropriate vehicles for change at the appropriate time. This workshop's focus is on the significance of the human connection and quality of relationship in breaking though patient resistance to reach successful outcomes; it includes a liberal use of case examples.



Lecture #5: ED Treatment Nuts and Bolts: Strategizing in the trenches

This workshop provides a bird's-eye view into the eating disorder therapist's "tool box," offering insights into facilitating patient change and healing through incremental behavioral change, emotional growth and versatility, and enhancing the quality of the therapeutic relationship. In 'doing what works,' the clinician practices a creative and innovate use of self.



Lecture #6: The Team Approach: Connections and resources

Highly integrative diseases, eating disorders require an interdisciplinary team of expert professionals to handle all aspects of support and healing simultaneously. Motivated and well-educated and mentored parents hold the potential to become MVPs as members of any professional team in offering recovery support and trouble-shooting throughout the treatment process.



Lecture #7: "Outside the proverbial box" using holistic adjunct treatments

This workshop bridges the gap between research and practice in explicating the power of the mind/body connection and the new science of interpersonal neuropsychology and brain plasticity in healing eating disorders. This discussion will reference the work of Alan Schore, Daniel Siegel, Chrisopher Germer and Norman Doidge. Experience first-hand the benefits of connecting mind and body with the Feldenkrais ©/Anat Baniel Methods© in promoting the integration of Self through embodied mindfulness.



Lecture #8: Facilitating Recovery and Aftercare

This workshop describes the qualities that set eating disorder recovery apart from other recoveries, explicating what it is about, and what it entails, both from the patient's and professional's perspective. This workshop describes the role of aftercare and the therapist's use of self in achieving the most effective outcomes, differentiating complete recovery from "managed" recovery… which is, in actual fact, not recovery at all. This workshop will employ a liberal use of case examples.