Beginning January 1, 2014, mental health professionals licensed in the State of Washington* are required to complete six hours of training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management based on the Matt Adler Suicide Assessment, Treatment & Management Act that was signed into law in 2012 by Governor Christine Gregoire.
Shame about excess weight can immobilize people in many areas of their lives. As therapists, we are often invited into our client’s weight struggle either explicitly or implicitly. Here we will address the struggle that therapists and clients have around weight issues, with an emphasis on shame’s critical role. When we aren’t able to recognize and manage our own shame and judgment about excess weight, we can be drawn into the content of what is being said rather than attending to the shame that the client is experiencing.
Balint group work is a kind of empathy practice which helps spell out transference and countertransference dynamics gently and non-intrusively, with nuanced access to affect. After an extemporaneous presentation of a case, group members describe what arises intuitively and imaginatively, while focusing on the experiences of both members in the therapeutic relationship. We explicitly don’t offer advice regarding technical management of the treatment process.
Key Figure: Heinz Kohut
Key Concepts: Importance of Shame and Self Esteem / Ambitions and Ideals / Self and Self Objects / Grandiose Self / Mirroring and the Mirror Transference / Idealized Parent and Idealizing Transference / Vertical and Horizontal Splits / Primary and Secondary Ambition
Instructor: Robert Bergman, MD, Training and Consulting Analyst in SPSI
Beginning January 1, 2014, mental health professionals licensed in the State of Washington* are required to complete six hours of training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management based on the Matt Adler Suicide Assessment, Treatment & Management Act that was signed into law in 2012 by Governor Christine Gregoire.
