This webinar is intended for counselling practitioners and other interested professionals.
This is an interactive meeting with cameras on and the breakout rooms.
Narcissism and working with the children of narcissists
Narcissism is a word generally used as an insult but it describes a tendency in all of us which we probably spend most of our lives trying to modify and civilise ourselves so that we can live and work productively with other people. Those people who have very strong narcissistic traits often create enormous problems of psychological development for their children and it’s the children who present as clients to therapists. This workshop first of all clarifies the genesis of narcissism and describes its different forms. It continues to describe the risks to the child’s development of having a narcissistic parent and it then offers strategies for working with this client group.
Participants should be aware that they will be expected to share their own experience of this sort of person, both personally and professionally and to contribute to an active and interactive workshop.
About the speaker
Julia Buckroyd is Emeritus Professor of Counselling at the University of Hertfordshire and a therapist in private practice, specialising in working with people with all sorts of problems with food, weight, shape and size. She is particularly interested in the meaning and function of the manipulation of food and looks for triggers to episodes of food misuse. She believes that clients are unlikely to abandon their eating habits unless they learn alternative means of life management and so focuses on helping clients develop better means of emotional regulation. She has written widely in this area. Her most recent book is Understanding your Eating McGraw Hill, 2011.
