TRAINING WORKSHOP: 12 CPD Hours

Tipperary Rape Crisis Centre in conjunction with Blackfort Adolescent Gestalt Institute presents a Two-Day Training Workshop on:

Eating Disorders in Adolescence & Emerging Adulthood

27th & 28th March 2023 (Monday & Tuesday) in the Clonmel Park Hotel, Clonmel, Co Tipperary. (9.30am-4.30pm: Registration from 9:00 am on Monday 27th March 2023)

(Tea and coffee provided / Lunch not provided)

Two Day Training Workshop

Eating Disorders in Adolescence & Emerging Adulthood

Today’s adolescents are bombarded with shaming, unrealistic and confusing messages about weight, body shape and beauty. Bodies are machines to be managed and are a source of torture for many adolescents. This workshop will explore how the adolescent’s relationship to body and food is a creative statement about how they feel about themselves and their world. Participants will develop an understanding of eating disorders specific to adolescence including anorexia nervosa, adolescent anorectic profile, bulimia nervosa, selective/ restrictive eating, food refusal & food phobia.

We will examine various aspects of this complex issue including:

• The impact of eating disorders on adolescent development

• Eating disorders & adolescent brain development

• The adolescent’s subjective experience through an eating disorder

• Supporting the adolescent’s meaning-making process

• Supporting parents

• Multi-agency work

• Supporting the adolescent’s recovery

• Parental Involvement
• Countertransference & clinical dilemmas
  

About The Presenter:

Bronagh Starrs is Programme Director for the MSc Adolescent Psychotherapy in Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre in partnership with University of Northampton and Founder & Director of Blackfort Adolescent Gestalt Institute. She maintains a private practice in Omagh, Northern Ireland, as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, writer and trainer, specialising in working with adolescents, emerging adults and their families. Bronagh is an adolescent development specialist and has considerable experience as a trainer in adolescent development and therapy throughout Ireland. She also teaches and presents internationally on the developmental implication of trauma on the adolescent journey. Her first publication Adolescent Psychotherapy - A Radical Relational Approach (Routledge, London) was received international acclaim. Bronagh’s second book is due for publication in 2023.

The Cost: This 2-day training normally costs €320 however Tipperary Rape Crisis Centre is delighted to be able to offer the full 2 days training for only €200.

Please contact Catherine for a place on this course by emailing catherine@trcc.ie.

www.blackfortinstitute.ie

www.trcc.ie