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Seminar Series
Stepping Up To the Plate
The Power of Enlightened Parenting in Healing a Child's
Eating Disorder
A 5-Part On-line Lecture Series for
Parents, Schools, and Community
Groups
Parents confronting an eating disorder in their child
no longer need not feel lost or
frightened.
Enlightened and
empowered parenting is possibly
the most invaluable resource for the recovering child,
professional team, and healing
process. Eating
disorders are family system disorders; they affect and
involve every member of the family, through dysfunctional
behaviors and recovery struggles
played out at
dinner tables and
in family bathrooms. Parents need
to turn love into action, the forward
momentum of these tenacious disorders into healing. They need
learn to diagnose disorders
in their early stages, confront their child,
put together an expert treatment team in support of their child's recovery, bring their child
to care, and collaborate as ‘most
valuable players’ on that team. The inclusion of parents, families and loved
ones in family treatment (particularly with child
and teen patients) insures that
positive family system changes occur in tandem
with, and reinforcing, the child’s recovery changes, offering efficacy in the pacing
and sustainability of recovery.
Parents are not to blame for their child’s
eating disorder.
There is a lot they can do, however, to heal their child once afflicted,
or prevent the worsening of a condition
that may ultimately trigger eating disorder onset. Perhaps you've heard
that eating disorders cannot
be cured, that "once anorexic,
always anorexic" Don't believe it. When enlightened
parents learn how to respond
effectively and leave no stone
unturned, when help is optimal and effective support is forthcoming, eating disorders
are completely and fully curable
in 80 percent of cases.
Parents of disordered
children
need
to:
- Become knowledgeable
- Become proactive.
- Take charge…
…until such time as the child is
capable of resuming self-care, self-regulation and
self-control.
Parents who are not part of the solution run the risk of becoming part of
the problem.
This 5 part
online workshop
and training series will provide parents the know-how, impetus, permission and confidence
needed….in
one’s self, in one’s parenting, and
in a convoluted recovery process…
to parent the child effectively
through this most pivotal and
transformational time. Having gone through this process together with your
child, the breadth
and depth
of the parent/child relationship
will be enhanced for life. When
brought to a successful outcome, the eating disorder recovery process results in your child “getting her self back;” and
parents “getting their child
back.”
These online workshops will
teach parents what they need to
know in order to:
- Recognize disease.
- Choose expert team professionals; parents learn what to listen for in prospective candidates, and to trust their instincts in making the best choices.
- Bring their child to treatment.
- Help their child engage in treatment and stay engaged.
- Participate in treatment to accommodate the child’s changing needs.
- Remain flexible in supporting positive changes throughout the process.
- Refine their instincts and skills in communicating with the recovering child.
- Learn to listen actively and with sensitivity to the child and to an elusive recovery process.
- Recognize hidden and hard to read indicators of recovery.
- Shepherd the recovery process to its completion.
- Encourage the professional team to communicate with each other for purposes of case management and trouble-shooting.
- Support the child appropriately throughout every stage of recovery, becoming more effective parents.
- Seek professional support, consultation and coaching for themselves.
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