Description: This clinical demonstration offers a detailed, real-time look at cognitive behavioral coaching for weight loss and long-term maintenance. Viewers watch how sabotaging thoughts, cravings, emotional eating, and all-or-nothing dieting are addressed through structured thinking tools, planning, and realistic habit change. The work shows how CBT helps people build sustainable eating patterns, tolerate discomfort without giving up, and prevent relapse by changing how they think about food, motivation, and daily choices.
Syllabus Description: The presenters will conduct a live interview with a participant who has struggled to lose weight or maintain a weight loss. They will demonstrate specific techniques to motivate the dieter and help him/her consistently use good eating habits, and solve dieting dilemmas.
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*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., is President of Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Philadelphia, a non-profit organization that provides a variety of training programs to health and mental health professionals worldwide, and a Clinical Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. She has authored over 100 chapters and articles and several books, including Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond, which has been translated into over 20 languages, Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems, and books for consumers on a CBT approach to weight loss and maintenance. She divides her time among teaching, clinical work, supervision, administration, program development and consultation, and writing.