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Specialty Groups
Establishing Coping Skills is a structured educational experience
for persons with
ANOREXIA NERVOSA
BULIMIA &
COMPULSIVE EATING PROBLEMS:
The Treatment of Eating Disorders must help people develop interpersonal skills that will enable
them to cope with their feelings and life stress for true recovery to be accomplished. The development of such
skills is the goal of our coping skills group — which will complement and facilitate individual, group
and family therapy.
The topics for the group were chosen in response to the needs expressed by hundreds of
persons with eating disorders treated at The Center since 1983. Together these topics encompass
three facets essential to the successful treatment of eating disorders. They are insight-oriented in helping
clients to identify problems of emotional issues, supportive with respect to using clients' strengths, and
behavioral in their emphasis on developing techniques which will help clients translate insight into positive
behavioral changes relating to their disorder.
What You Can Expect To Accomplish
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Learning which interpersonal skills you are presently lacking.
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Learning how to express your thoughts, feelings and beliefs.
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Learning what has prevented you from expressing yourself in the past, and how
this is associated with your food related difficulties.
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Learning how to express yourself and your needs.
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Learning how a lack of coping skills can relate to your eating disorder,
and how developing effective interpersonal skills can facilitate efforts toward recovery.
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Program Outline
Individual Session: Individual needs will be assessed to
optimize success in the program.
Attacking the Symptom: Group members will identify the issues underlying
their eating disorder. Behavioral
strategies for changing dysfunctional eating patterns will be developed.
Anxiety Management: The thoughts, people and situations related to
increased anxiety will be identified. Relaxation techniques will be taught.
Communication Skills: Communication skills will be taught through instruction, modeling and role play.
Assertiveness Training: How communication skills can be used to assert oneself in difficult situations will be demonstrated.
Coping With Depression & Anger: The relationship between depression, anger and assertion will be discussed. Training on
how to express feelings will be provided.
Dealing With Intimacy: Different types of intimacy will be explored.
Family Issues: Family conflicts will be examined. Strategies that can be used to deal with such conflicts will be developed.
Building Self-Esteem: Thoughts and beliefs associated with low self-esteem and
emotional discomfort will be identified.
Individual Session: Each group member will devise plans to continue developing skills needed to deal with the
life issues related to their eating disorder.
Multi-Modal Psychotherapy Group
This group offers an innovative approach to treatment. It integrates the
benefits of psychotherapy,
spirituality, and 12-Step programs to help members learn to develop fuller, more meaningful lives.
The group process is used to address the psycho-emotional
issues which underlie eating disorders. A focus of the group will be on the development of life skills that will help
group members deal with the feelings, thoughts, and issues which must be addressed for their recovery
to be accomplished.
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Center for the Treatment of Eating Disorders
570 West Mount Pleasant Ave, Suite 108, Livingston, NJ 07039
79 Hudson Street, Suite 203, Hoboken, NJ 07030
973-740-0234 Fax 973-740-0702
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