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In Teenage Eating Disorders, Dr. Raine Weiner demonstrates her approach to working with adolescent clients who present with eating disorders. Eating disorders, which include anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating, are common among teenagers, especially among girls. In this session, Dr. Weiner works with a girl who is experiencing obsessive thoughts, recurrent anxiety, and periodic sadness regarding her weight and appearance. She uses an eclectic approach that incorporates aspects of psychodynamic and cognitive–behavioral therapies. Dr. Weiner challenges the client's view of the "perfect body" and helps her work toward a stronger self-image and an awareness of what might be causing her obsessive thoughts and painful emotions.
Adolescents with eating disorders are sending a message of distress to their families and friends. Sometimes they know what is causing this distress but are conflicted about expressing it. Others are not conscious of the reasons for their eating disorder. Psychotherapy is a process that helps clients translate the language of their symptoms and how they use their bodies to communicate emotions.
Raine Weiner, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who graduated from the University of Michigan and received her doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology in 1986. She ran a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents in Los Angeles before moving her practice to Maryland in 1988. In 1991, she cofounded the Eating Disorders Center of Potomac Valley and Potomac Valley Psychotherapy Associates in Rockville, Maryland.
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