The Rosewood Institute Webinar Schedule 2013
June 21, 2013: Sex Addiction: Is it Real? presented by Michael Klinkner, MSW, LCSW
1 CE hour available.
The topic of sex addiction has been a rather controversial one over the past few years. There has been debate among the press as well as among professionals as to the validity of the diagnosis, or whether it is just a “cop out” and excuse for sexual misbehavior. Comparisons and contrasts to sexual offenders will be detailed. This presentation will discuss the importance of taking a non-judgmental approach as well as a rethinking of the causes, descriptions, and treatments of sexual addiction.
Following this presentation, attendees will be able to:
- Recognize the three differences between sex addicts and sex offenders.
- Non-judgmentally view client behaviors and identity two treatment approaches.
- Utilize three tools to address underlying trauma associated with maladaptive behaviors in their clients.
Video presentation coming soon.
May 17, 2013: Working with Complex Clients in the Treatment of Eating Disorders and Trauma presented by Michael Klinkner, MSW, LCSW
1 CE hour available. (Email us at TRI@rosewoodranch.com for CE information, PowerPoint Slides, Post Test, and Evaluation Form.)
We have all had clients that continue to challenge us as professionals. We strive to understand the obstacles interfering with the client’s progress in hope to move them into recovery. Utilizing the basics of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Model from EMDR, as well as the basics of Attachment Theory, this workshop will illustrate how these two models can work together in helping to conceptualize treatment of eating disorders and trauma. This workshop will review various ways to evaluate the foundational roots influencing the dysfunction in the context of the patient’s history. It’s a client centered way to view the factors that contributed to problem behaviors and what continues to reinforce it. Strategies and intervention on how to assess the client’s behavior in a non-judgmental way will also be presented. Hands-on tools and exercises will be provided for attendees to use immediately with clients.
Following this presentation, attendees will be able to:
- Describe the basic aspects of the Adaptive Information Processing Model.
- Describe the basic aspects of Attachment Theory.
- Utilize tools to address underlying trauma associated with maladaptive behaviors in their clients.
Video presentation below.
April 19, 2013: What’s Eating You?: The Doctor-Dietitian Alliance presented by Steven J. Karp, DO, FACN and Debbie Richardson, MA, RD
1 CE hour available. (Email us at TRI@rosewoodranch.com for CE information, PowerPoint Slides, Post Test, and Evaluation Form.)
As a board certified addiction psychiatrist, Dr Karp brought 20 years of addiction treatment knowledge to his work with eating disorders. Dr Karp’s then inexperience with eating disorders gave him the freedom to create his own method to simultaneously treating eating disorders and addictions. Dr Karp will discuss noteworthy findings such as how psychiatric medications may complicate rather than improve recovery and why psychological insight into previous emotional injuries is necessary. The discovery that “food is the best medicine” was a pivotal moment for Dr Karp, particularly for medication effectiveness in the eating disorder-addicted client. Debbie Richardson, MA, RD, will talk about how mal- nutrition contributes to cognitive impairment, body image problems, and thought distortions with interventions such as weight restoration, rehydration and meal planning. Beginning to advanced professionals will learn assessment and treatment tools to be applied in any setting that works with co-occurring eating disorders and addictions.
Following this presentation, attendees will be able to:
- Explain how psychiatric medications are ineffective with a malnourished eating disorder client.
- Demonstrate specific ways the psychiatrist and dietician collaborate and problem solve treatment barriers for the eating disorder client.
- Describe the importance of treatment team communication between the psychiatrist and dietician.
Video presentation below:
March 15, 2013: The Lies that Bind: Opening the Clinical Conversation in Wounded Family Systems presented by Kenneth Perlmutter, Ph.D.
1 CE hour available. (Email us at TRI@rosewoodranch.com for CE information, PowerPoint Slides, Post Test, and Evaluation Form.)
Families impacted by disordered eating, addiction, compulsion, and mental illness have in common legacies of loss from which the members have never fully recovered. Balance, order, and survival are maintained through the adoption of impaired coping mechanisms which perpetuate the cycles of illness, loss, and relapse which afflict all members. A set of powerful and destructive stories, “the lies that bind,” holds members in rigid ways of responding and perpetuates the trans-generational transmission of impaired coping. This webinar will include an overview of The Stress-Induced Impaired Coping™ model developed by the presenter including descriptions of the environmental characteristics of the wounded family system. Techniques and tools to support clinicians to intervene and open the clinical conversation in these wounded families will be featured.
Following this presentation, attendees will be able to:
- Incorporate a new model for family system addictive disease into their family treatment repertoire and lexicon.
- Name the most commonly occurring distortions and compulsive narratives that trap family members in recurrent patterns of impaired coping and loss.
- Practice techniques and approaches to open the clinical conversation in wounded family systems.
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February 15, 2013: A Model for Conceptualizing the Treatment of Trauma, Developmental Immaturity, and Eating Disorders/Addictions presented by Stephanie Schoville, MA
1 CE hour available. (Email us at TRI@rosewoodranch.com for CE information, PowerPoint Slides, Post Test, and Evaluation Form.)
The issues of psychiatric comorbidity and trauma history are unavoidable in those who treat patients with eating disorders. This workshop will focus on understanding the relationship between trauma, patterns of codependency and addictive behaviors with patients with eating disorders. Ego states which develop as a result of developmental immaturity found in codependency will be discussed. Participants will learn how to identify when clients are in each ego state and teach them to reduce emotional energy and function from the standpoint of a balanced adult. Eating disorders, codependency and addictions serve to separate aspects of the Self, and the goal of recovery is to reintegrate them to be a whole authentic person. Through the use of metaphors and skills, participant will learn methods to help clients find hope and improve functioning.
Following this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the relationship between trauma, codependency, and addictive behaviors in the development and maintenance of eating disorders.
- Identity three key factors on how trauma and unmet needs influence addictive behaviors and eating disorders.
- Describe six recovery tools needed to help these patients achieve emotional and behavioral balance, finding freedom from their eating disorder.
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January 25, 2013: Mindfulness 101: An Introduction to the Science and Practice of Mindfulness Meditation By Dr. Thomas Best, MD
1 CE hour available. (Email us at TRI@rosewoodranch.com for CE information, PowerPoint Slides, Post Test, and Evaluation Form.)
In this informative and experiential webinar, Dr. Best will explore the ancient practice of mindfulness meditation that has rapidly become a mainstream intervention in Western medicine. He will discuss the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts in 1979, and the family of mindfulness-based interventions that have arisen around it.
Following this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Recite a working definition of mindfulness.
- Discuss the 7 fundamental attitudes of mindfulness.
- Demonstrate knowledge of several different types of formal mindfulness practices.
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The Rosewood Institute Webinar Schedule 2012
December 18, 2012: Adolescents and Binge Eating Disorder
by Dena Cabrera, PsyD., CEDS, and Kim Vavrosky, MS, RD, CDETreating Binge Eating Disorder (BED) in adolescents is challenging, as it is a complex illness and affects more people than any other eating disorder. The messages adolescents receive about food, weight, shape and exercise make understanding and treatment particularly difficult. Blending their expertise and experiences, Dena Cabrera, psychologist and Kim Vavrosky, registered dietitian, will discuss risk factors, nutrition approaches, treatment interventions, and family therapy as it relates to BED and adolescents. This webinar will illustrate how treatment needs to move beyond just treating the individual and expand to the family, environment and culture in effort to help kids overcome BED. View presentation below.
November 13, 2012: Living Out Loud: Psychodrama Sculpts Recoveryby Hunter Taylor, MS, LCP
Psychodrama experiential approaches are essential to addiction treatment because it facilitates a much needed journey into feelings. Psychodrama techniques increase access to emotions that otherwise create barriers to recovery. The open minded practitioner can use these visual and action oriented techniques to help their patient “break-through” defenses and provide “a picture” of unresolved core issues. Practitioners will observe a family sculpt, then learn techniques such as empty chair, roles, inner child, anger discharge approaches, grief work, and the use of props. These techniques will support a client’s ability to see how their addiction history is interrelated, with emphasis on how to work with trauma without “re-traumatizing” your client. View presentation below.
September 25, 2012: Equine Assisted Psychotherapy: Interventions in the Arena
by Cheryl Musick, Advanced EAGALA Certified
Horses can be beneficial for the treatment of clients struggling with eating disorders as well as other physical and mental disorders. Cheryl returns to explain the dynamics of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, including a discussion involving how to utilize horses in the mental health field, defining the therapy roles of EAP team members, choosing appropriate horses for interventions and the use of metaphors during EAP sessions. Case examples will include the treatment of body image issues, nutrition, OCD, trauma, fear and boundary issues. View presentation below.
August 28, 2012: Not Just Horsing Around: Equine Therapy for Eating Disorders
by Cheryl Musick, Advanced EAGALA Certified
Equine therapy has a long tradition of therapeutic benefit for people with cognitive delays, physical limitations and severe behavioral issues. Since people with eating disorders have similar cognitive, behavioral and physical concerns, equine therapy has been useful for this population as well. With fifteen years of equine therapy experience for eating disorder clients, Cheryl will use case examples to discuss when to use equine therapy and how to know if the equine therapy session was beneficial to the client. Cheryl’s presentation will include differentiating between equine therapy and horsemanship, assessing appropriate equine interventions, and matching therapy horse to client. View presentation below.
May 22, 2012
Eating Disorders, Gastric Bypass and Binge Eating Disorder: A Dietitian’s Perspective
Megan has many years experience working with eating disorders but recently she has treated an increased number of binge eating disorder and gastric bypass clients. This rapid surge in post weight loss surgery and binge eating disorder clients has Megan examining certain aspects of her work in order to best serve these clients. Specifically, Megan will distinguish variations on traditional dietary eating disorder interventions related to assessment, exercise, food intake issues, meal planning, weight loss, expected length of care and long term follow up treatment. This conversational interview will use clinical case vignettes to demonstrate the convergence of eating disorders, gastric bypass and binge eating disorder issues. View presentation below.
April 24, 2012
Hopeful, Angry, Worn Out: Family Systems with Eating Disorders
By Amie Celender, MS, LMFT
Being a loving family member to someone with an eating disorder can be tiresome, leaving one feeling hopeful but angry and worn out. Well-intentioned family members offer incentives for health and consequences for self-harming choices and yet the family related eating disorder issues worsen. The presentation will identify characteristics associated with dysfunctional forms of communication when one family member has an eating disorder. Case vignettes will demonstrate the power of a family system for both informing as well as recovering from the eating disorder. View presentation below.
March 27, 2012 at 11:00 am MST
Help Me But Go Away: Treating the Difficult Adolescent
By Lee Neagle, MA
Adolescents are a challenging population for mental health professionals. Clinical issues related to an eating disorder are further complicated by expected adolescent behaviors of testing authority, experimenting with new identities, and acting out. In the service of interrupting the eating disorder, seasoned treatment teams learn to evaluate adolescent behaviors to educate, challenge or ignore the actions. The purpose of this presentation will be to identify characteristics associated with eating disorders in adolescents and to provide recommendations on integrating normal developmental milestones into recovery. Specifically, Lee will discuss the benefits of motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques for adolescent resistance and ambivalence. Clinical case presentations will enhance the information for interested beginning to advanced professionals. View presentation below.
February 28, 2012 at 11:00 am MST One Stop Shop: Applying the 12 Step Model to Eating Disorders
Evidence supports a new model for treating eating disorders which may include twelve step groups in combination with a bio-psychosocial treatment protocol. Killeen, et al (2011) found that people with disordered eating or an eating disorder, who go into treatment for substance abuse or chemical dependency, have high rates of relapse with an eating disorder, especially while still at the addiction treatment center. Similarly, people discharging from a segment of eating disorder treatment commonly relapse on multiple substances, including food. Twelve step programs have an exceptional history guiding addicts into recovery with-out bias to substance, socioeconomic, cultural and religious background. Eating disorder practitioners have mixed opinions on the benefits of twelve step programs for their client’s, even though 60% of eating disorder clients report multiple cross-addictions. Brewerton reports that food can stimulate the opiate system and that there are striking similarities in use and withdrawal patterns of sugar and of classic drugs of abuse. In addition, there often appear to be reciprocal relationships among food and other substances. This presentation will guide interested novice to seasoned professionals how to integrate the twelve step model with a traditional eating disorder treatment approach, creating a comprehensive support system for recovery. View presentation below.
January 24, 2012 11:00 am MST
When It Really Is About the Food: Nutritional Issues for Eating Disorders
Malnutrition is the primary cause for people with eating disorders to deteriorate at such a rapid pace and is an invisible threat to both the underweight anorexic and the purging bulimic. Before the treatment team can facilitate the insight oriented therapies and pharmaceutical interventions, the dietitian works with the client on the food to overcome the malnutrition. The dietitian’s success is no small feat. This presentation will discuss various treatment approaches, goals and common setbacks that professionals can encounter while working with this population. View presentation below.
