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Body Perfectionism: Innovative Tools from DBT, CBT, ACT, ERP and More to Improve Self-Worth

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Speaker:
Deanna Smith, LCSW, CEDS
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6 Hours 29 Minutes
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Audio and Video
Copyright:
Aug 09, 2024
Product Code:
POS059784
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Description

“I have to look perfect.” “I need to lose weight.” “I’ll only wear loose clothes.” “I don’t want to be in photos.”

When your client struggles with body perfectionism, it can feel like the one session you have with them per week doesn’t stand a chance.

Societal pressure and expectations – combined with the disordered eating shame cycle of restricting, bingeing, and compensatory behaviours – makes it feel impossible to help your clients break away from deepseated beliefs and ingrained behaviours.

Watch Deanna Smith, LCSW, CEDS, eating disorders and body image expert, for this comprehensive training that will give you integrative tools to meet the needs of your clients who are struggling with perfectionism, disordered eating, body image, and related negative effects like anxiety and depression. She’ll give you a roadmap for navigating these complex issues, including:

  • Key assessment tools to gain crucial understanding of how your client sees themselves and the world
  • Cutting edge strategies from DBT, CBT, ACT, ERP, and more to decrease symptoms and improve self-worth and self-esteem
  • An intuitive eating framework to heal clients’ relationship with food and body
  • Top tips for working with clients with entrenched beliefs and high relapse potential

Stop your clients’ perfectionistic self-hatred so they can obsess less about food and perceived flaws and build a fulfilling, imperfect life.

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CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


CPD

This online program is worth 6.5 hours CPD.

Handouts

File type File name Number of pages
PDF Manual - Body Perfectionism (10.3 MB) 59 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Body Perfectionism - French (10.3 MB) 59 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Body Perfectionism - Italian (10.3 MB) 59 Pages Available after Purchase

Speaker

Deanna Smith, LCSW, CEDS's Profile

Deanna Smith, LCSW, CEDS Related seminars and products

Center for Growth

Deanna Smith, LCSW, CEDS, owns and operates the Center for Growth where she specializes in eating disorders, body image issues, obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders and anxiety. She is a sought-after public speaker, consultant, and trainer, having shared her expertise with organizations like NAMI, the International OCD Foundation, the Association of Latter-Day Saint Counselors & Psychotherapists, and regional hospitals and health care systems. Deanna was previously adjunct faculty at the University of Utah College of Social Work.

 

Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Deanna Smith maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Deanna Smith has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.


Objectives

  1. Differentiate adaptive versus maladaptive perfectionism.
  2. Conduct a case conceptualisation for clients with disordered eating, body image, and perfectionism.
  3. Utilise cognitive restructuring to challenge negative perfectionistic beliefs about the self.
  4. Integrate clients’ values related to food, weight, and body into treatment to increase motivation for change.
  5. Choose distress tolerance skills to assist clients with managing food and body image triggers.
  6. Utilise a self-compassion practice to decrease perfectionistic self-criticism.

Outline

Pressure to Portray a Perfect Image
Myths and Realities of Perfectionism

  • Functions of perfectionism: gain approval, feel in control, compensate for shame
  • Key differences between adaptive versus maladaptive perfectionism
  • Relationships between perfectionism, disordered eating, and body image
  • Disordered eating behaviours typically used by perfectionists
  • The role of diet culture in reinforcing perfectionism
  • The changing nature of beauty standards
  • Social anxiety and appearance-related isolation
  • How to help clients see the costs of perfectionism

Assessment and Case Conceptualisation
Overcontrolled or Out of Control?

  • Top signs that your client might be struggling with perfectionism
  • How to explore the impact of perfectionism on functioning
  • Key assessment tools for perfectionism
  • How to take a body image assessment
  • Eating disorders screenings
  • How to talk with clients about food-related behaviours
  • Case conceptualisation for clients with perfectionism-related body dissatisfaction
  • How to determine when a higher level of care or specialist is necessary
  • Case study

DBT, CBT, ACT and Other Interventions
Clinical Tools to Shift Beliefs and Behaviours

  • Uncover internalised and externalised perfectionistic expectations
  • DBT middle path and decision-making skills for clients who polarise
  • Cognitive restructuring for self-worth and selfesteem beliefs
  • How to help clients tolerate fears of disappointment
  • Strategies to reduce common body imagerelated avoidance
  • CBT practices to promote flexible thinking
  • Inference-based interventions for reality challenging
  • How to decrease anxious reasoning and comparison-making
  • ACT interventions to identify values related to food, weight, and body
  • Self-compassion practices to decrease perfectionistic self-criticism
  • Distress tolerance skills for body image triggers
  • Inhibitory learning strategies to promote impulse control
  • Mental flexibility practice for fear foods
  • Exposure and response prevention techniques for lowering food fears
  • Inference-based techniques to decrease food obsessions
  • Construct a perfectionism exposure hierarchy
  • Intuitive eating to improve relationship with food and body
  • Case study

Clinical Considerations
Provide the Best Care for Clients with Perfectionism

  • Troubleshoot top barriers to treatment
  • Tools for working with clients who have limited insight into their symptoms
  • How to integrate treatment interventions from multiple modalities
  • Top relapse prevention strategies
  • How to do this work when you’re not an eating disorders specialist
  • Involve healthcare providers and dieticians
  • When and when not to recommend support groups
  • Strategies to bolster clients’ social support systems
  • Impact of the therapist’s own perfectionism and body/food relationship
  • Cultural considerations
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Other Mental Health Professionals
  • Nurses
  • Physicians

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