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SPAN - 20 week duration
- By Jan Clarke
- Published 29th January, 2008
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Jan Clarke
Jan Clarke is the mother of Bronte Cullis, a Melbourne teenager suffering from Anorexia Nervosa whose story was told by Ray Martin and Channel Nine between 1996 and 2003. Jan’s passion and commitment to creating change in the way eating disorders are understood and treated, stems from her own personal experience.
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Clients in this stage are encouraged to reconnect with what is really important to them and to live according to their own personal values by identifying how these have become violated by their eating disorder and the behaviours it dictates. It is important that we provide support (physical, emotional and social) within the change environment therefore clients will continue with one on one change sessions with an experiential counsellor along with regular therapeutic sessions to explore and identify what helps and hinders throughout the change process. It is essential to ensure that there is sufficient structure to support a client undergoing change whilst providing them with the opportunity to independently challenge thoughts and behaviours.
Program Goals:
• To increase self efficacy; confidence and belief in self as the agent for choosing and initiating change
• To increase the degree of responsibility of self for decisions and subsequent outcomes
• To increase the diversity of life experiences and food choices
• To objectify the irrational/illogical thoughts that are a feature of the eating disorder
• To decrease the reliance on external feedback and increased ability to challenge negative thoughts and self-soothe in a positive way
• To increase the number of and value in external relationships
We are constantly inspired by the courage of clients in this stage of recovery therefore encourage all parties to take the time to affirm the self and acknowledge how difficult the process of change is.
Program Goals:
• To increase self efficacy; confidence and belief in self as the agent for choosing and initiating change
• To increase the degree of responsibility of self for decisions and subsequent outcomes
• To increase the diversity of life experiences and food choices
• To objectify the irrational/illogical thoughts that are a feature of the eating disorder
• To decrease the reliance on external feedback and increased ability to challenge negative thoughts and self-soothe in a positive way
• To increase the number of and value in external relationships
We are constantly inspired by the courage of clients in this stage of recovery therefore encourage all parties to take the time to affirm the self and acknowledge how difficult the process of change is.