HOW TO LISTEN SO PATIENTS TALK

Subject: Eating and embodiment issues in general treatment

How do we therapists listen for and address food, feeding and body troubles in an ongoing treatment not specifically dedicated to eating problems?

This workshop will help the general therapist find a more secure and informed therapeutic voice amidst the culturally induced and sanctioned “every day speak" of food and feeding distress and embodiment troubles.

The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute’s theoretical and clinical treatment model for eating and body problems allows us to enter into our patients’ inner life and psychodynamic struggles and decode the instantaneous conversion of feeling language into food and body (hate, control, wish for transformation) language that so perniciously impacts psychic life in our time.

Developing a stance that questions this normalized hijacking of experience opens the opportunity for the therapist and client to speak about what really is troubling about ones life and to be liberated from restrictive and oppressive ideas about the right way to be and the right body. Flowing from this therapeutic goal is the potential for greater freedom and satisfaction in general.

Case material encouraged.

Teaching methods: Dydactic and interactive

Learning objectives

1.To learn how to apply The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute’s feminist relational model of eating and embodiment problems in a general treatment.

2.To be able to formulate and articulate specific language for interpretations and interventions.

3. To enable therapist to recognize and utilize their counter-transference as well as understanding the role of clinical enactments that are endemic to the subject matter

4. When to refer a patient to a specialist.

Carol Bloom, LCSW Co-founder The WTCI, New York, Teaching Faculty, Educational Consultant, Board of Directors, Private Practice, Supervisor.

Co-Author of Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model, Basic Books, 1994, With Andrea Gitter, Susan Gutwill, Laura Kogel & Lela Zaphiropoulos.

The New York State Education Department has approved this workshop for 3.0 contact hours (CEUs) for LMSWs LCSWs, LCATs and MHWs. A certificate will be emailed upon request to those who sign the attendance sheet and complete an evaluation format the end of the workshop.

The Women's Therapy Centre Institute Training Program is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Workers as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed social workers #SW-0361, NYS licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0018, and NYS licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0102.

Registration is very limited for our groups and workshops, and an event will be closed if over-enrolled and canceled if under-enrolled; please register early. No refunds are given unless event is cancelled or time/date change.