Event Type: Seminar

Summit for Clinical Excellence is the premier provider of Addiction, Mental & Behavioral Health Continuing Education for therapists and counselors. This training will be valuable for those working in the areas of: Mental Health, Behavioral Health, Addictions, Marriage & Family Therapy, Psychology, Nursing and Trauma.If you have not joined us before, you will discover how the Summits are a whole different experience in conferencing. Dr. Judith Brisman will be giving two talks at this event; What Women REALLY Eat and Treating Troubled Teens: Parents as Partners in the Therapeutic Process.

Patients often wonder, “What do normal women, and therapists, really eat?” What can patients realistically anticipate in the process of recovery? This presentation offers an opportunity to safely discuss difficult, uncomfortable questions, including how we negotiate our own desires for food with our desire to feel good about our bodies and when, if at all, we should tell patients about our own eating patterns. Participants will be able to:

• Better understand what “healthy eating” really means.
• Discuss what, on average, is a “normal” amount of eating, and how that amount may or may not be what is nutritionally optimal for every individual.
• Address the question of why, how and when eating disorder professionals should introduce a discussion of their own relationship with food into their clinical work.

Join Judith Brisman, Ph.D. and Sondra Kronberg, MS, RD, CDN for the experiential discussion; What Do Women Really Eat?

Why the Treatment of Eating Disorders Challenges Everything We Have Learned About Psychoanalysis– and What We Do Now. Presenter: Dr. Judith Brisman PhD Discussant: Emily Kuriloff, PsyD at NYU Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South, Room 406.

What does trust have to do with eating disorders?  Why is it sometimes easier to trust food than people or one’s self? Let’s talk about who we trust, who we don’t—and why.  How vital is trust in relationships?  And just as important, how vital is trust in your relationship to yourself?  Come in with examples of what has worked for you, what hasn’t and why. We hope to have an engaging discussion of the role of trust in recovery and how you can take a step to finding trust in the relationships in your life, with yourself and with others.

Dr. Brisman will give two presentations:

• When Helping Hurts: Untethering the Family Tie
• Treatment of the Eating Disordered Patient: Encounters and Negotiation

Dr. Brisman will give two presentations:

• When Helping Hurts: Untethering the Family Tie
• Treatment of the Eating Disordered Patient: Encounters and Negotiation