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The Art of Treatment
A Resource for Professionals
Eating disorders are complex and integrative diseases that demand a unique and novel approach to treatment, patient, and the family. Effective treatment requires heightened self-awareness and a creative and facile use of the professional’s self in ushering patient and family towards healing. You no longer need to feel unprepared to handle these cases or compelled to refer them outside of your own practice. This site provides the education, resources, and consultation you need to become fully prepared to meet these treatment challenges yourself.
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“Ms. Natenshon is a gifted and engaging presenter in the area of eating disorders and its treatment. Her grasp of the material, ability to synthesize important insights and impart them in a highly "usable" manner is impressive and inspiring. Her clinical sensitivity and passion for her subject empowers her audience to leave feeling enhanced and prepared to face clinical challenges. By combining clear thinking, concrete tools and a wealth of clinical experience, she helps you understand not only what to do when treating this population, but why.
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Ava Carn-Watkins, Ph.D.Assistant Director, Graduate Program in Counseling Psychology
The Family Institute at Northwestern Universiy: Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies
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Articles for Professionals
Read an
excerpt from Abigail's ebook...
"The Health Professional’s Unique
Use
of Self in Treating an Eating
Disorder" |
Pediatric/Medical Guidelines for
Treating
the
Eating
Disordered Child
How Eating Disorders Heal
Unique Challenges for Professionals
Treating Eating Disorders
Therapists roles
and tasks, excerpts from
"When Your Child
Has an Eating Disorder"
Natenshon
/ Jossey Bass Publisher
PANDAS
/ OCD /
Anorexia
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Combining the Feldenkrais Method with Traditional Psychotherapy to Treat Eating Disorders
The work of Moshe Feldenkrais can be used advantageously to augment the more traditional approaches to treating patients with eating disorders and body image disturbances.
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"How I Practice." Reprinted from Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention
After months or even years of treatment, parents were at a loss to understand what eating disorders are and what they imply about their child's needs, concerns, and emotional resiliency.
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What psychotherapists, medical doctors, nutritionists and other health professionals need to know…
If you are not an eating disorder “specialist,” you have probably felt unprepared to treat “hard core” eating disorder cases and in some instances, perhaps have felt compelled to refer these cases out of your own practice to other professionals who have more experience than you do.
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The practitioner's role is pivotal
Your evaluation/assessment of the patient and/or early interaction with the eating disordered child and family could provide the first, and perhaps the only, opportunity for the individuals in that family to avail themselves of professional care.
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Practitioners…. avoid these 9 common pitfalls
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Eight Part Series:
Picky Eating and Early Childhood Feeding Disorders
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"Take Away Tasks" for
Binge Eating
or
Night Eating Syndrome
The
Book
Here are some tips for using When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder: A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers in your professional practice.
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The Free Guide for Professionals
The guide offers useful strategies and treatment ideas from the book for professionals to incorporate into their practice.
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Professional Services
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Abigail Natenshon offers a variety of
keynote speaking engagements,
professional consultations and
training workshops for health
professionals.
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Featured Workshop:
Eating Disorder Survival for Kids and Parents: Empowering Parents as Recovery Advocates
Click Here for full details on this exciting new workshop.
New Lectures:
Treatment Innovations
The therapeutic effects of the Feldenkrais Method in treating eating disorders and body image disturbances. Learn More...
Resources for you and
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100 featured articles
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kids'
concerns
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food,
healthy
eating,
weight
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When Your Child Has An Eating Disorder: A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers is a comprehensive study of eating disorders, their prevention, treatment and cure. Though the title implies that its message is for parents only, written in the language of optimism and healing, the book speaks in a direct and informative way to health professionals and their patients as well. Read More... |
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Other Resources:
Links to other sites. Click Here
NEDA Conference Sees Parents as Agents for Change
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