by Jo Cormack PhD MBACP | Uncategorized
In part 3 of exploring a question about helping parents not pressure, we now address resistance. Read parts 1 and 2 for a refresher and to recall Ginny and Sue’s dynamics. Ginny the RD may ask, “What if I (and they!) can’t work out why they [the parent] are resistant... 
by Jo Cormack PhD MBACP | Working with pressure
In a follow-up to our previous post on helping parents not pressure, I (Jo) introduced some ideas from the field of counseling and psychotherapy, and anticipated a common question I sometimes hear from supervisees, “This sounds a lot like therapy – isn’t it a... 
by Jo Cormack PhD MBACP | Avoidant Eating, Resources for parents
You’ve shared with parents why pressure is unhelpful; you’ve explained that the idea that pressure makes eating harder and outcomes worse is underpinned by research; you’ve highlighted common feeding practices which can be experienced by children as pressure; you’ve... 
by Jo Cormack PhD MBACP | Avoidant Eating
Instrumental no-pressure is a concept that I developed while I was analysing the data in my doctoral study of parental feeding practices. It is one of those findings that didn’t make the final cut. The thing with the kind of qualitative research method I used (very... 
by Jo Cormack PhD MBACP | Spotlight
Virginia Sole-Smith is the author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. As a journalist, she has reported from kitchen tables and grocery stores, graduated from beauty school, and gone swimming in a mermaid’s tail. Her work has...
