The Emotion Focused Approach to Disordered Eating: Disrupting Stigma and Promoting Agency
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The Emotion Focused Approach to Disordered Eating: Disrupting Stigma and Promoting Agency
Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the detrimental effects of the current mainstream perspectives on disordered eating and their predominant treatment methods on sufferers, their families, and the professionals dedicated to helping them. This session will introduce an alternative understanding of eating disorder phenomena and advocate for the use of Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST) to promote recovery and wellness across the system. Experts Dr. Joanne Dolhanty and Sherry Barrett will delve into emotion-focused approaches, highlighting the unique concept of “competing motivations” to reframe the common misconception that individuals with eating disorders lack motivation to recover. The webinar will feature video demonstrations of real therapy sessions, showcasing techniques used with individuals and their supporting parents to address competing motivations and enhance agency in the recovery process. Emphasizing experiential learning, this session offers you the chance experience skills for working with emotions, along with a takeaway practice tool to support your continued growth.
This webinar is free for all to attend!
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Presented by the Ontario Association of Social Workers, Dr. Joanne Dolhanty, PhD, C.Psych, and Sherry Barrett, MSW, RSW, AccFM
Dr. Joanne Dolhanty is an internationally renowned expert who has spent 30 years researching and treating complex clinical populations, developing new models of treatment, and training professionals and parents. She provides Emotion Focused trainings in countries around the globe. With Dr. Leslie Greenberg she developed Emotion Focused Therapy for Eating Disorders. She is recognized as the world leader and trainer in this approach. Dr. Dolhanty created Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST) to mobilize and make accessible the benefits of Emotion Focused Therapy to the broader population. Her short-term model promotes transformation via experiential learning of emotion focused skills. She is known for her lively, warm, and engaging teaching style; for empowering learners to discover their own inherent wisdom; and for facilitating transformation and personal growth.
Sherry Barrett is an expert emotion focused therapist and approaches social work through the emotion-focused lens in order to disrupt, challenge, and transform the multiple practices and systems of power that impact individuals. Sherry is passionate about working with individuals, couples, and families as they move through life’s obstacles and developmental stages in their journey to find meaning and fulfillment. Her Doctoral research at the McMaster University School of Social Work includes examining the impact she has seen of Emotion Focused Skills Training for Parents throughout the legal process of separation and divorce.
The Ontario Association of Social Workers (oasw.org) is the voice of the social work profession in Ontario. It is a voluntary, bilingual, non-profit association representing 9,500+ social workers. OASW works to actively speak on behalf of social workers on issues of interest to the profession and advocates for the improvement of social policies and programs directly affecting social work practice and client groups served. OASW also offers high-quality, free or low-cost professional development opportunities to social workers and other health and mental health care providers through our OASW Learning Centre (olc.oasw.org).