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Background: This presentation enables participants to synthesize the issue of how shame impacts early childhood development with how the formation of a shame identity impacts eating disorders. It will enable clinicians to teach the use of skill sets that reduce and extinguish shame, thus insuring movement forward in treatment and recovery.
THE IMPACT OF A SHAME IDENTITY ON EATING DISORDERS:
CREATIVE METHODS OF TREATMENT & RECOVERY
OUTLINE PRESENTATION
- Laying a Foundation of the Development of a Shame Identity in an Eating Disordered Client/Patient
- How shame impacts early childhood development
- How narrative therapy and life stories can assist in the identification of wounds and related unmet needs influence the development of a shame identity
- How ignoring the presence of shame in an eating disordered client/patient’s treatment can lead to inadvertent sabotage of progress in treatment or recovery
- Conceptualization of the relationship between a shame identity and the development and maintenance of eating disorder behaviors and characteristics
- Assessment of the belief system common to individuals who develop an eating disorder
- How shame influence belief system development
- Conceptualization of how these factors impact or influence the treatment process
- How ignored shame can lead to treatment failures and relapses
- Skills sets and tools that encourage forward movement in treatment and recovery
- Mindfulness (including Body Mindfulness)
- Guided Imagery
- Behavioral Chain Analysis
- Commitment to Change
This presentation is an intensive workshop on the impact that shame has on attempts that those suffering from eating disorders make to move into or maintain recovery. When shame is ignored in treatment, one of the factors that drives eating disordered behaviors is neglected, thus inadvertently sabotaging the eating disordered individual’s attempts to become well. This presentation will educate participants regarding how the experience of shame impacts early childhood development. It will present a form of narrative therapy that assists a client/patient in the use of the life story to identify emotional, cognitive, spiritual, and relational wounds and related unmet needs that influence the development of a shame based identity.
Participants will be enabled to accurately conceptualize the relationship between a shame identity and the development and maintenance of eating disorder behaviors and characteristics. This presentation will also provide an in-depth assessment of the belief system that is common to individuals who develop an eating disorder and how shame influences these beliefs very early in life. It will enable clinicians to accurately conceptualize and apply these factors into their treatment process, in order to more effectively assist clients in movement toward recovery. Clinicians will be provided with a thorough understanding of how powerful shame can become when ignored in treatment in terms of treatment failures and relapses.
Clinicians will be given tools to assist clients/patients in developing insight into how a shame identity has impacted her development and what the connections are between these factors and her use of eating disorder behaviors in order to navigate her life journey. These tools include skill sets that the presenters have discovered within their own eating disorder patient practices encourage movement forward in treatment and in recovery, if they are used in conjunction with other generally accepted treatment modalities. Participants will not only learn how to teach their eating disorder clients/patients the following skills, but will also learn techniques that will enable application of those skills in a client/patient’s everyday life. The skill sets that will be presented include mindfulness (including body mindfulness skills), guided imagery, behavioral chain analysis and commitment to change.
Pam Micca, M.Ed., LPC, ACS is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Arizona. She received her Master’s in counseling from Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a Primary Therapist, Assistant Clinical Director, and Director of Clinical Services for 12 years at Remuda Ranch Programs for Eating Disorders. She then worked at an acute inpatient psychiatric hospital as the Director of Social Services, prior to opening her own consulting and education firm in early 2012 called Healthy Women, Healthy Girls LLC. She is a speaker and writer on various eating disorder, behavioral health, and spiritual growth topics.
Amy Wasserbauer, Ph.D. is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in Arizona. She is currently a staff psychologist at Arizona State University Counseling Services. She was a Primary Therapist, Family Therapist, and Assistant Clinical Director at Remuda Ranch Programs for Eating Disorders for ten years. Amy received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Seattle Pacific University. She has twelve years of experience working in higher education in student life settings. She has over 25 years of experience presenting in academic and church settings on eating disorders, identity development, relationship issues, group leadership, and spiritual growth.
