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Dates:
Sunday and/or Monday
evenings, 8 weeks
consecutively.
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Time: 6:00PM
Pacific Time, 7:00
Mountain Time, 8:00
Central Time, 9:00
Eastern Time.
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Format: a 50
minute Power Point
lecture, followed by
questions, case
presentations and group
discussion.
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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.
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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
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To convey the uniqueness
and specificity of
treatment and case
management requirements
for eating disorder
specialty care.
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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.
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To teach novice and
veteran practitioners
alike to hone existing
skills while learning
new strategies to secure
successful treatment
outcomes.
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To bring about a timely
and effective increase
in the number of fully
diagnosed and recovered
eating disordered
individuals.
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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.
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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.