101693: Experiential Strategies for Working with Adolescents with Eating Disorders

About the Course:

Webinar from the 2009 International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Symposium.

This presentation addresses the obsessive nature of eating disorders as a process of transference from environmental relationships and malnutrition. Food is perceived subjectively as a safe object for stress projection as well as an object of desire resulting from malnutrition. Through Directive Guided Imagery clients can transition from paralyzing confusion to personal understanding. Directive Guided Imagery unveils the avoided emotional states and related external stressors. Structured Art Expression symbolically expresses the avoided emotional states and summarily unveils the desires for healthy living. For clinicians this didactic and experiential training provides creative techniques for individual and group settings.

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Content Outline:
I Introduction to theoretical constructs used
II Basics of Imagery a. Word guide b. Head imagery, left side c. Head imagery, right side d. Central headlines
III Body Walk Process a. Find participant volunteer and trace body and head b. Have participant go through relaxation portion c. Have participant go through imagery portion d. Reverse body walk for participant e. Have participant come out on imagery
IV Body Walk Art a. Draw four words in each area of traced body after Body Walk b. Fill in with drawings, words, etc what those words mean in each part of body c. Describe what completed picture means
V Closing and Q and A

Author

Buck Runyan, MS, LMFT, LPC, CEDS (presenter)

About the Author:

Buck Runyan is the Chief Operations Officer at the Center for Discovery. As COO he oversees Discovery’s four residential eating disorder treatment facilities. Buck has an extensive background treating eating disorders and other compulsive behaviors. Previously, he held positions as the founding Program Director of the Remuda Ranch Adolescent Center for Eating Disorders and Program Administrator for San Bernardino Mental Health Court Pegasus Program. Buck is also the California Chapter President of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals California. Buck was formally educated at California Baptist University completing a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology degree in 1992.

Recommended For:

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, therapists, and counselors who seek to update their research knowledge and competency in treating patients with eating disorders, increase and acquire new skills, learn new intervention strategies, and obtain continuing education credits. It is appropriate for professionals at all levels of knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. Participants will learn about the implementation of directive imagery and art expression which empowers clients in gaining individuation from food related transference.

2. Participants will learn the use of this modality within the individual, family and group therapy setting to promote psychological healing.

3. Participants will learn how to assist clients in the self-discovery of their relationship with food as a transference object.