Mind Body Integration of the Self in Treating Weight Regulation: The Hollow Victory of Weight Loss [Continuous]
Credits: [15 ]
Dates:
Continuous
Cost: $167 SIGN-UP
$167
This seminar introduces an innovative psychotherapeutic approach to the consistent clinical challenge of weight regulation problems. It focuses on bio-medical principles of weight regulation in the application of an integrated, embodied-mind approach to weight regulation. Additionally, the seminar takes up the problem of identifying weight regulation and body image symptomatology. Clinical applications in treatment will be presented.
Week 1
OVERVIEW AND EVALUATION of the Problems of Weight Regulation: What you need to know before you get started.
Commonly asked questions by practitioners in the field
How these patients present: What they sound like.
- Those self referred
- Those referred by medical professionals
A conceptual framework within which to think about the overweight adult disordered eating (ODE) patient.
- Definitions of obesity
- Classifications of obesity
- Overview of the biological
Week 2
MIND BODY DYNAMICS: Major Concepts from a Clinical Perspective
THE INTERNAL LIFE of Patients with Weight Regulation Problems
- A synthesis of the psycho structural development and organization of the ODE patient, a brief review.
- Development of psychological and body self including body image are important considerations in weight regulation.
- The ODE patient, a direct manifestation of disorders of the self and psychological self.
- Affect regulation, ego states, and dissociation as it applies to the ODE Patient
- Developmental trauma, leading to dysregulated eating is central for the ODE patient.
- For the ODE patient, it is not about the food, but rather it is about an action symptom fulfilling developmental or object hunger.
- Styles of attachment and family of origin for the ODE patient.
Week 3
CLINICAL EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT Specific to Obesity and Weight Regulation
- Central issues of evaluation and diagnosis for the ODE patient
- Evaluating motivation: pre-contemplation, contemplation, action
- Clinical evaluation & assessment specific to obesity and weight regulation
- Current evaluation guides and tables
- The pseudo-cures and hollow victories of the ODE patient
- The unique internal meanings of the external presentations
- Common transference and countertransferencial reactions to ODE patients
Week 4
MIND BODY INTEGRATION
Clinical and Treatment Applications: “Outside In” vs. “Inside Out”
- The traditional approach: Clinical application of “outside in” work (external weight manipulation)
- Challenging homeostasis:
- Change
- From the neuroscience perspective
- From the psychological, clinical perspective
- Clinical application
- The mind body connection and the O.D.E. population
- Self statements, change, and the mind body connection
- Self perception, body self, body image and the mind body connection
- Developmental deficits and the mind body connection
- Basing treatment applications of ODE upon new developments in neuro science
- What you need to know about right brain development in the treatment of ODE patients
- What you need to know about the developmental quest and “experiential black holes” and “chronic shock”
- B.I.T.E.®, direct application of the unique knowledge for action symptoms, object hunger, developmental hunger
- Avoidance of traditional therapy pitfalls with ODE patients
- “Inside out” work (i.e. the clinical application of the psychotherapies which explore and interpret the emotional conscious and unconscious motivations which drive human beings)
- The Possibilities of different forms of treatment
- The role of individual psychotherapy
- The role group psychotherapy
- B.I.T.E. ® The Program of Change and Transformation
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Educational Objectives:
Seminar participants will:
- Identify weight regulation and body image symptomatology
- Understand the internal life of these patients
- Recognize and address developmental deficits and trauma
- Create treatment strategies for affect regulation, attachment disturbance and dissociative states
- Learn the role and treatment of body image issues for these patients
Continuing education credits 15
Test Fee (separate charge): $45
Members with enough remaining CEUs will not be charged for the test.
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Faculty
Fran Weiss, LCSW-R, BCD, DCSW, CGP
Fran Weiss, LCSW-R, BCD,DCSW,CGP
Is an expert clinician with over 27 years of experience in the treatment of weight regulation and body image disturbances among the adult overweight, medically obese, and disordered eating population, ODE. She has a Private Practice in New York City in both individual and group psychotherapy. She is on Faculty at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC and is the Senior Psychotherapy Consultant to the clinical arm of the New York Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, A University Hospital of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her contributions to the origins of symptomatic (psychogenic) obesity emanating from developmental and adult trauma led to her groundbreaking work on lasting weight loss and normalization. She is an author, book reviewer, mentor of interdisciplinary staffs, and specializes in training healthcare professionals.
Through her innovative treatment methods in body image, she developed her pioneering work through her signature workshop, B.I.T.E. The Body Image Transformation Experience®. From the successes of this Workshop, she has developed her training Protocol for Professionals in B.I.T.E.®.
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