Making Sense of Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Making Sense of Body Dysmorphic Disorder
TAKE QUIZBody Dysmorphic Disorder is the term that is used to describe a series of experiences and behaviours.
Some of these experiences are specific to this descriptive term. Others are common to many other mental health situations.
Most prominent among these experiences and behaviours is the development of the conviction that part or parts of one's body is/are seriously deformed, ugly, hideous.
This course consists of four modules.
Each module contains (1) a video presentation; (2) the slides created for this presentation; (3) a quiz.
Module One: Body Dysmorphic Disorder: The Prevailing View (video).
Module Two: Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Critique of the Prevailing View (video).
Module Three: Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Psychological Understanding (video).
Module Four: Working with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (video).
A quiz - regarding the contents of the module - is included at the end of each module.
In Module One (video), the current prevailing understanding – and of the experiences and behaviours that come to be described as Body Dysmorphic Disorder – is set out. As is the case for the majority of mental health issues, the prevailing view largely reflects the medical view/understanding.
In Module Two (video), the current prevailing understanding is critiqued, to assess the level of validity and credibility that applies to the prevailing understanding of Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
In Module Three (video), a more comprehensive understanding is set out, of the experiences and behaviours that come to be described as Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
This understanding is psychologically- and trauma-informed.
In Module Four (video), many aspects and ideas as to how to work with people who have these experiences and behaviours are described and set out.
As is the case regarding the understanding that is set out in Module Three, the material that is included in Module Four should dovetail well and complement the training and experience of psychotherapists, counsellors and psychologists, and other mental health professionals.
EDUCATIONAL/LEARNING OUTCOMES:
To provide participants with:
· Information regarding how people having the experiences and behaviours is seen and understood within the prevailing – largely medical – mental health view globally.
· Knowledge regarding the process of critiquing what is presented as authoritative pronouncements in relation to mental health.
· A richer and more comprehensive understanding of these experiences and behaviours. A method of understanding these experiences and behaviours that explains and makes sense of these experiences and behaviours is provided.
· Insights into how trauma and the consequent wounded Self is a core aspect within the people who develop these experiences and behaviours.
· Many useful, accessible and practical ideas regarding working with people who have these experiences and behaviours.
Your Instructor
Terry's own life experiences and his life as a mental health activist, medical doctor, psychotherapist and mental health author have brought him to a level of understanding of mental health that is unusual if not indeed exceptional.
Terry Lynch has played a prominent role in mental health both nationally and internationally. For a nine-year period, he was appointed by the Irish Department of Health and Children to key national mental health groups - The Expert Group on Mental health Policy (2003-6) which formulated A Vision for Change, Ireland’s official mental health policy document; The Independent Monitoring Group for A Vision for Change (2006-9); the Second Monitoring Group for A Vision for Change (2009-12).
Terry Lynch was the only mental health professional to be appointed to the three Groups named above. In addition, he was also appointed by the CEO of the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) to the Irish Health Service Executive's Mental Health Expert Advisory Group (2006-8).
Terry is the author of 4 books: Prescribed Drug Dependence (Kindle, 2018); Depression Delusion Volume One: The Myth of the Brain Chemical Imbalance (2015); Selfhood: A Key to the Recovery of Emotional Wellbeing, Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental Health Problems, (2011); and best-seller Beyond Prozac: Healing Mental Distress (2004).
He has appeared regularly in the national media in Ireland and beyond.