“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” ~ Charles Dickens
Dear Readers,
Another fabulous complimentary webinar by Castlewood Treatment Centre. Please do join them.
Family Therapy: Supporting Vs. Colluding
Presented by: Christine Schneider, MSW, LCSW
Lead Therapist Castlewood Treatment Centers Ms. Schneider graduated with her Masters in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She is currently a doctoral candidate at St. Louis University in the field of Family Therapy. Ms. Schneider is also adjunct faculty at St. Louis University, teaching in the Department of Social Work and the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology. Her current areas of research and interest are the effects of trauma and chronic illness on parent-child attachment. She is a primary therapist at Castlewood, incorporating theories of attachment and interpersonal biology into her individual, family, and group work. Ms. Schneider has completed training in in Internal Family Systems Therapy and EMDR. Ms. Schneider speaks regionally, nationally and internationally on topics related to attachment, couples counseling and trauma. She is a member of American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
Wednesday October 21, 2015
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CST
Families of clients with eating disorders often struggle to know how to support their loved one without colluding with the eating disorder. This webinar focuses on several key factors in helping families to provide support, including how to take a thorough history of the function of the eating disorder in the family of origin, how to provide psycho-education on the family’s role in the eating disorder, and specific interventions that can be utilized to assist families in providing effective support.
Learning Objectives:
1. To define support vs. colluding in families with clients with eating disorders.
2. To implement specific interventions for therapists working with families of clients with eating disorder.
3. To identify key components of assessment taking, conceptualization and interventions of working with families of clients with eating disorders.
