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6th World Congress on
Mental Health, Psychiatry and Wellbeing
March 20-21, 2019 | New York, USA
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The Meta-
Communication of Self-
Destructive Behaviors
All self-destructive behaviors
can serve as a way to
communicate. They speak
the unspoken. Every eating
disorder, addiction, and other
self-destructive behavior has a
voice, a story, a thought and a
feeling that the sufferer is trying
to express, but the deeper they
go, the more disconnected
they become. Eating disorder
sufferers and addicts often don’t
feel like they belong, fit in or
have the ability to navigate what
seems like a scary and chaotic
world. We as providers need
to learn how to explore and
understand the self-protective
nature of the self-destructive
behavior to help our clients
learn and integrate new healthy
coping skills. Through this
presentation, you will learn
how ongoing assessment of
eating disorders and other
self-destructive behaviors can
help us to gain information
on trauma history and create
a treatment plan. Treatment
providers will understand how
eating disorders and other
self-destructive behaviors
serve as coping strategies that
are used to alleviate stress
and self-soothe. We will also
identify ways to reveal the pain
narrative that lies at the core of
the eating disorder and other
self-destructive behaviors, learn
to help your client reveal the
language that lies beneath the
eating disorder, and learn how
to help our clients replace the
pain narrative with a new set of
beliefs.
Biography
Erica Ives has been a Licensed Marriage
and Family Therapist for over 20 years
and is also a Certified Eating Disorder
Professional. She is the Founder,
Executive, and Clinical Director of
Mindfulpath Inc., an outpatient healing
space where a wide array of treatment
professionals come together in one space
to provide a multitude of mental health and
wellness services. Erica has also worked as
the Clinical Director at several treatment
centers, as well as at various levels of care.
She is the author of Eating Disorders:
Decode the Controlled Chaos and has
been an educator in the community,
teaching graduate level students, and
training clinicians working toward
licensure. Erica also has a podcast, All
About Mental Health, which you can
find on ITunes or on and
is also the founder of the #meyouwe, @
meyouwecampaign, focused on mental
health awareness.
Erica Ives
Mindfulpath Inc, USA
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EMERGENCYMENTAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RESILIENCE 2019, VOLUME 21
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C2-029
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