Body Image Issues Part 2

Many of us focus on a part of our body that bothers us. We try to fix it or conceal it. Sometimes we believe that this body part makes us deformed. People may spend a lot of time worrying about this part of their body because it could make them feel like they are not as good as other people.

Teenage girls are often the most vulnerable because of peer group issues, wanting to be liked by their peers and by boys. But they are not the only ones. This problem plagues men and women alike.

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Body Image Issues Part 1

In our world today, the focus seems to be around what you look like. People criticize everything from weight to hair color to freckles to the lines on your face. The media doesn’t help. They use super thin models for magazines and television and then airbrush or edit them to create their idea of perfection.

You may have only a minor flaw that is barely noticeable to another person, but to you it is the center of your attention at all times:

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Trainer – Mark Dworkin LCSW, Mark is an Approved Provider of the Basic Training in EMDR by the EMDR International Association. Read full bio below.

Part One: October 22-24 8:30 am – 5:30 pm

Part Two: December 3-5 8:30 am – 5:30 pm

Register before October 15^th to save $150. Course tuition below.

QUESTIONS?

Speak with Mark Dworkin at (516) 731-7611 or e-mail Info@MarkDworkin.com

Who can attend:

Licensed Mental Health Professionals with adequate clinical experience. Students in graduate mental health programs may apply for admission, but with restrictions. (See below)

Each 3-Day Weekend Training will include lecture, discussion, demonstrations, and video in the mornings, and experiential practicums in the afternoons (except for Part One, Day One) to integrate the lectures of the mornings.

Participants will learn:

• The physical and emotional impact of trauma.
• The eight phases of EMDR which emphasize preparing a client to become ready for the active trauma reprocessing phases of EMDR.
• Methods of taking a sensitive “trauma informed” history.
• When to work with traumatized clients on developing coping strategies for self-soothing before obtaining a complete history.
• Identifying negative beliefs clients have about themselves which interfere with living a full life.
• Identifying where and how these beliefs originated, before active trauma reprocessing.
• Identifying those clients at greatest risk for dissociation.
• Methods of safety in preparing a client to release painful affect.
• Making an evaluation of maladaptive memories, usually beginning in childhood; activating memory components of visual cognitive, emotional and sensorimotor components.
• How to recognize changes indicating productive reprocessing of painful memories.
• Strategies to facilitate blocked reprocessing of painful memories.
• Strategies of coping with your own activated painful memories during reprocessing.
• Use of self as clinician in applying EMDR methodology.
• Specialized procedures for clients with challenging problems to assist in reprocessing painful memories, releasing pain safely, so that the brain’s adaptive information processing abilities may spontaneously reprocess what were painful experiences, and now use the lessons of these experiences, for future growth and development.

Participants will learn many applications including:

• Survivors of emotional, physical, sexual, and clergy abuse
• Children
• Anxiety disorders including phobias and panic attacks
• Depression
• Active military and veterans of war
• Survivors of natural disasters
• Clients with devastating physical illness
• Dissociation
• Pathological grieving
• Clients with somatic complaints without organic findings
• Clients with many “ordinary” problems in living that trouble them

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION of this course enables participants who complete this course to join the EMDR International Association to receive the benefits of membership including eligibility to take advanced courses in EMDR to continue their education, and become a “Certified Therapist in EMDR.”

Fees: $1350 before October 15th;

$1500 from October 15^th until October 22.

Fees include Part One and Part Two of EMDR training; training manuals, continental breakfast, lunch, and afternoon break refreshments.

(EMDR Clinicians who have completed an EMDRIA Approved Part One and Part Two Training may take this EMDR Training again for $750.) Proof of Completion is needed (send a copy of your certificate of completion).

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is Comprehensive Approach to Psychotherapy. It is evidence based and received an “A” rating from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. It is an integrative methodology, which incorporates psychoanalytic, cognitive/behavioral, and relational/humanistic aspects into the cognitive neurosciences, including specifically information processing theory. It is designed to alleviate the suffering of many problems people have ranging from severe problems in living (heartbreaks, failing at work related issues, to the most severe traumas imaginable, such as survivors of sexual, emotional, physical forms of abuse (including clergy abuse), complex PTSD, and pathological forms of dissociative disorders.

The very definition of trauma in information processing terms is any event or experience that the brain’s information processing abilities are unable to encode in an adaptive manner. It is these experiences that are maladaptively encoded and activated when experiences in living implicitly or explicitly activate these memories. This is the experiential basis for internal problems people face in life which may cause behavioral problems, and symptomatic conditions such as anxiety and depression.

Checks should be made out to:

Mark Dworkin LCSW, and mailed to:

251 Mercury Street

East Meadow NY 11554

Checks postmarked by Aug. 15^th; and September 11^th will be eligible for the reduced fees.

Payments by credit card through PayPal:

According to the EMDR International Association guidelines participants are required to have at least 5 hours of consultation in between Parts One and Two, and 5 hours of consultation after Part Two to complete their BASIC training. The rationale is to consolidate basic training into the daily practice of psychotherapy. These consultation hours may be obtained through individual or group sessions; in person or by telephone.

These are additional fees for these 10 hours, but they will be greatly reduced for participants of Mark’s training. (For instance an individual 60 minute hour of consultation may run as much as $150; $75 for group consultations.) Consultations by Mark (and some other Approved Consultants in EMDR) may run as low as $60 an hour for individual consultations, and $30 an hour for group consultations.

In addition Mark will be running Advanced Seminars on a number of issues such as:

• Intersubjectivity (Transference and Countertransference) in EMDR
• Attachment Issues in EMDR
• EMDR and Dissociation.
• Advanced Instruction in Traumatology
• Issues in the Neurosciences and EMDR
• Advanced Interventions During EMDR Preparation and Reprocessing Phases
• Advanced Seminars in Specialty Areas of EMDR.

Participants from Mark’s Training will be given a discount of 50% off the tuition from these advanced seminars.

**Students in graduate programs may attend at reduced fees, but will not be given Certificates of Completion. The rationale is that they have not had sufficient years of clinical experience in order to competently apply EMDR methodology. They may apply for a Certificate of Completion after obtaining their licenses and passing specific requirements proving competence in clinical practice.**

About Mark Dworkin LCSW – He has practiced EMDR since 1991; he was trained by its originator, Dr. Francine Shapiro and was a member of her faculty for 15 years. He has been a trainer since 2000. He served on the Board of Directors of the EMDR International Association between 2002-2005. Mark is an international lecturer on EMDR.

Mark’s book EMDR and the Relational Imperative: The Therapeutic Relationship in EMDR Psychotherapy (Taylor and Francis 2005) has been a staple in the EMDR Community and has been translated into Italian.

He has two new articles coming out in the peer referred Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, Volume 4, Number 3, 2010, in August. The articles are:

“Rupture and Repair in the EMDR Client/Clinician Relationship: Now Moments and Moments of Meeting”

Mark Dworkin and Nancy Errebo

And:

Using EMDR With Survivors of Sexual Abuse Perpetrated by Roman Catholic Priests

Derek Farrell, Mark Dworkin; Paul Keenan, Joany Spierings

Tuition includes: Continental Breakfast; A Full Lunch; and refreshments for the afternoon break.

While the EMDR Institute charges $1500 for the training, and if you are out of town you have to spend money on hotels and meals, mostly local people are signing up. If you wish to attend and you need lodging, a list of nearby hotels will be provided.

This course is approved by the EMDR International Association, and participants who complete the training course will receive a certificate of completion.

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MANY STUDENTS SHOW SIGNS OF ANXIETY OR DEPRESSION IN JUNE

Students are coming back home from college now. Many have been happy with how their semester went. Many aren’t:

• Some may be perfectionists; having unrelenting standards; not recognizing achievements.
• Some are trying to live up to their parent’s high expectations.
• Such anxiety & depression can lead to a vicious cycle of academic neglect, drug & alcohol abuse, parental & social conflict, and sometimes worse.

Many parents try to help:

• Did they spend enough time studying?
• Was there something in the course material that was too challenging, or too embarrassed to tell you?
• Did they spend too much time with extra-curricular activities, e.g. clubs, parties, etc..
• Parents may suggest some guidelines, such as, sufficient time for studying, organize your notes, summarize notes, etc.
• Suggesting a student tutor or summer courses.

This may not be enough. Parents can find themselves nagging their children:

This can cause rebellion and opposition.

Many parents’ self-esteem is mixed up with the child’s performance; if their children don’t do well, it can lead to parents and or children:

• Getting depressed
• Becoming anxious
• Parent/child fighting

What can family & friends do beyond nagging, or suggesting academic solutions?

Your family & friends may not implement your useful suggestions because there may be underlying psychological issues (such as being a perfectionist, ADD/ADHD, or low self-esteem) which are inhibiting them.

Here’s how you can help: