Session: Experiential Strategies for Working with Adolescents with Eating Disorders - Part 5 - The Importance of Connecting Experiential and Spiritual Interventions In the Treatment of Adolescents with Eating Disorders (2009 Symposium: Reclaiming the Body: Attachment, Somatics, and Image (March 4-8, 2009))

Wednesday, March 4, 2009: 4:00 PM-5:15 PM

Barcelona/Casablanca (Westin Long Beach)

Adolescents struggle with the maturity and developmental wisdom necessary to battle eating disorders with vigor and to approach treatment in collaborative engagement with the clinician. Two ways to approach this difficulty is with experiential interventions, helping move patients towards recovery by circumventing resistance, and spiritual interventions, bringing the adolescent back to deeper beliefs, desires, and motives to engage the hard work of treatment. Participants will learn how to better understand the importance of experiential intervention, spiritual intervention, and a blending of these for the client's benefit. This workshop will be didactic, practical, and experiential. Active participation will be invited.

IAEDP adolescent spirituality experiential proposalMEB
Content Outline:
I Experiential Intervention in the Treatment of Adolescents with Eating Disorders
   A. Adolescent developmental needs
   B. Designing treatment according to basic needs
   C. Experiential Interventions for Adolescents
       · Group
       · Individual
       . Family
   D. Activity / Experiential Exercise with Participants
II Spirituality in the Treatment of Adolescents with Eating Disorders
   A. The importance of spirituality
   B. The importance of spiritual purpose:
       · Glenn writings on needs of adolescents
       · Berrett research on social support and reciprocity / connection to spirituality
   C. Spiritual Interventions
       · Assessment as intervention
       · Didactic intervention
       · Experiential Intervention
   D. Activity / Experiential Exercise with Participants
III Experiential and Spiritual Intervention: The Powerful Point where They Meet
   A. Willing to learn
   B. Willing to Risk
   C. Willing to Look Inside
   D. Willing to Share
   E. Willing to be
   F. Willing to act
   G. Activity / Experiential Exercise with Participants

This workshop will be geared to clinicians who work with adolescents, and who are willing to learn about both experiential approaches and spiritual interventions with adolescents, including interventions for adolescents which are both spiritual in nature and experiential. Participants will learn about the developmental and basic needs of adolescents, the basic maturational needs of adolescent females suffering from eating disorders, and how to implement interventions according to basic needs.Participants will be invited to learn how to help adolescents explore, assess, define, and embrace their own spiritual beliefs and to utilize those spiritual beliefs in the recovery process. Participants will be asked to do some experiential activities in the workshop which can increase self awareness and can be personally uplifting. As a group in the workshop, we will engage in some interventions personally, which will give first hand understanding of how the intervention is implemented and the potential effect of interventions on the client.

Primary Presenter:

Michael Berrett, Ph.D.

Dr. Michael E. Berrett is a licensed psychologist and CEO, Co-Founder, and Director of Center for Change in Orem Utah, a specialized treatment program for eating disorders. He has 23 years clinical experience treating eating disorders. He is on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP ) and has dedicated his life to helping young people. He is Co-Author of numerous professional articles and book chapters and co-author of the APA bestseller “Spiritual Approaches in the Treatment of Women with Eating Disorders”. He is a nationally known speaker, presenter, and clinical trainer.

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