 66th Annual Conference
Thursday,
February 19
Morning Workshops
10:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Workshop 14
Addressing the Fear of Change: Integrative Group Therapy for Weight
Regultaion
Chair:
Fran Weiss,
LCSW-R, BCD, DCSW, CGP, Private Practice, Mount Sinai School
of Medicine, New York, New York
Integrative
group psychotherapy with overweight, disordered eating patients
stresses that authentic change and weight loss result from an
approach informed by neuroscience research, attachment theory, body
based therapies, and psychoanalytic advances. Negative body image,
developmental trauma, and dissociative self states that manifest as
weight regulation problems for patients are addressed.
didactic-experiential-demonstration-sharing of work experiences
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Use new
neuroscience research to inform approaches to the overweight
disordered eating, ODE, patient.
2. Apply
attachment theory in clinical strategies with the ODE patient.
3. Create
treatment strategies for affect regulation and dissociative states.
4. Identify and
address challenges of weight regulation and body image.
Course References:
1. Siegel, J.,Daniel,(1999).
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to
Shape Who We Are. New York: The Guilford Press.
2. Weiss, F. (2006).
Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy for the Obese Disordered Eating
Adult: A Contemporary View. Special Edition in Eating Disorders.
Group. Dec. Vol. 30, No. 4.
3. Wallin, J. David
(2007) Attachment in Psychotherapy. New York: The Guilford Press. |
