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Background: The majority of eating disorder clients today present with a number of challenging symptoms including trauma, self-injury, and chemical abuse . This workshop present a model of treatment effective for organizing treatment for the complex eating disorder client. Clinical material will be used to demonstrate its wide-ranging applications.
Content Outline:
- Part I
- Introduction – overview and goals for the workshop
- The Symptomatically Challenging Client – clinical description and experience
- Part II
- Overview of the Structural Process Model
- Assessment: What is the symptom EVOLUTION?
- How does the transactions influence support the ED behaviors
- Danger of therapy – Ethics of Changing the homeostasis
- Part III
- Types of intervention techniques
- Redefining the self – change in the ED Client
- Early Warning Systems – during treatment and relapse prevention
The majority of eating disorder clients today are presenting with inter-woven complex symptoms that maintain and support the eating disorder syndrome itself. Trauma-related symptoms, self-injury behaviors, chemical abuse patterns, along with aspects of other psychiatric clusters, all inter-weave with the eating disorder behaviors. For effective treatment to occur, they must be thoughtfully and systematically addressed! This workshop presents a model of therapy evolved from self-regulation and systems theory - the Structural Process Model (SPM). Unlike other approaches for treating eating disorder clients, this model was specifically designed to organize and guide treatment for the symptomatically complex client. Characteristics of these types of clients will be delineated followed by an explanation of the SPM. Then specific techniques for its application will be discussed using the clinical experiences of the presenter as well as those of e participants. Participants should expect to have some new insights and skills for developing and organizing an efficacious treatment platform for these most challenging clients.
Dr. Levitt has more than 30 years working with eating disorders, trauma and complex patients. He has been an active participant in the field of treatment of eating disorders as a clinician, program developer, supervisor/trainer, and presenter. He has worked in private practice, taught widely, published and presented on the topics of eating disorders, trauma, self-injury, complex symptomalogy, assessment, and intervention. He has co-edited four books on these topics with Dr. Randy Sansone. Dr. Levitt currently maintains a private practice in the Chicago suburbs specializing in the treatment of eating disorders, trauma, individual, and couples work.
