Dr. Rabinor conducts a variety of seminars and training for professionals and educational programs:

• Consultation, Training and Speaking Services
• Mental Health Professionals: supervision & case consultation
• Parents & Families on their role in their child's recovery
• Schools, Corporations & Community Agencies, Synagogues and Churches regarding their role in education and prevention

Seminars Offered

• What Schools can Do: School Professionals as Resources & Recovery Agents
• Mother-Daughter Workshops- Building Bridges
• Advice for Families Dealing with Eating Disorders
• Does My Child Have an Eating Disorder?
• What's Normal Eating? Living in a Fast Food World
• Fostering a Healthy Body Image in Your Child: Do's and Don'ts for Parents
• Understanding, Treating and Preventing Anorexia and Bulimia: An All-day Professional Training

Dr. Rabinor's professional workshops offer a skills-enhancing program grounded in a bio-psycho-socio-spiritual framework describing the multiple factors (intrapsychic, familial, cultural and biochemical) that promote and perpetuate these disorders. She provides a review of The Stone Center Relational/Cultural Theory of eating disorders, diagnostic criteria and dynamics of eating problems. Using lecture, experiential exercises and case material, clinicians will be familiarized with the process of assessment, evaluation and treatment planning, taking into consideration affective and cognitive disturbances, body image distortions, trauma and sexual abuse. Case presentations will cover teenage anorexia, compulsive eating, and sexually abused eating disordered patients. She will discuss the integration of group and family therapy, adjunctive therapies such as narrative and cognitive-behavioral therapy, twelve step programs, transference, countertransference and burnout issues.

Sacred Nourishment Retreats for The Public

Day-long Retreats for Anyone who Struggles with Chronic Dieting, Compulsive Exercising and /or Binge Eating with Judith Ruskay Rabinor, Ph.D. "I fee fat!" How many times have you said those words? And how many times have you started a new diet? If you are caught in a cycle of yo-yo dieting, starving, binging and exercising - this workshop is for you. These problems reflect profound disconnection -- from yourself, others and the universe at large. Healing involves expanding your capacity to connect and nourish yourself, mind, body, and soul. This workshop will help you understand how food, exercise and dieting help you cope with your quest for wholeness. Through imagery and writing mediations, experiential exercises and group discussion you will develop new tools to learn how to nourish and nurture your inner self. Professionals as well as the general public are invited.
 
For Professionals
 
Day-long Retreats for Professionals Treating Eating and Body Image Disorders with Judith Ruskay Rabinor, Ph.D. Eating problems and body image disorders reflect profound disconnection -- from oneself, other people, and the universe at large. Healing involves expanding the capacity to connect and nourish mind, body, and soul. When we, as healers, can identify and embrace the sacred in our lives by tending our spiritual, psychological, and nutritional hungers, we can encourage our clients to do the same. This workshop for professionals will begin with a brief exploration of how food, eating, and dieting are attempts to cope with the quest for wholeness. Through story telling, imagery and writing mediations and experiential exercise, you will have the opportunity to focus on the sacred in your life and bring new rituals for renewal into your practice. Clinical cases welcome. Dr. Rabinor offers these workshops nationwide.

If you are interested in holding either of these workshops in your community or at a conference, please contact her at 516-889-3404 or by e-mail.