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Non CE Event – Free for Members
DESCRIPTION: Ozempic and related drugs now help people lose up to 20% of their body weight with generally manageable side effects. As the price of these drugs drops, even more of our patients will take them.
How are these drugs (GLP-1 agonists) affecting couples and families? What about the self-image, decision-making, and sexual choices of individuals who finally lose weight after years of struggle and failure? How are the mates, children, friends, and co-workers responding to familiar people with suddenly unfamiliar bodies? And how are these slimmer people responding to others’ responses to them?
Not every newly-slim person will revel in the new attention they get at work. Not every couple will easily navigate the de-centering of food in one partner’s life. Not every lifelong-shy person will feel comfortable with the increased encouragement to socialize. Not every marriage will enjoy the melting away of one newly-slim partner’s sexual inhibitions. Not every newly-slim parent will know how to deal with their teenagers’ envy or insecurity. And not every newly-slim person will feel comfortable admitting how they’ve lost all that weight. And what about the loss of identity?
Therapists and healthcare professionals need to address the emotional and systemic effects of these new weight-loss drugs. Rather than waiting for patients to raise these issues, we must be prepared to ask lots of questions about their challenges.
Video will only be available for 30 days after the webinar.
Dr. Marty Klein has been a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Certified Sex Therapist for 44 years. He is the award-winning author of seven books about sexuality and relationships.
Every year Marty appears in various national media, such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Daily Show. His Psychology Today blog gets 30,000 views per month, and is widely quoted.
Marty has given over 1,000 keynote speeches and training programs to groups including the Miami Women’s Hospital, Psychotherapy Networker, and California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists (who have invited him to be a Master Presenter at 11 statewide conferences). He is a former instructor at Stanford University Medical School, and is a Qualified Forensic Expert testifying in state and federal courts.
In addition to seeing individuals and couples every week, Marty also supervises interns and runs consult groups for experienced therapists. His highly-regarded website is www.MartyKlein.com.
Webinar interaction & system requirements
This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led polls.
This webinar will be hosted through Zoom. Upon registration, participants will be emailed a link directly from Zoom. Additionally, the link will be available in your Zur Institute account, which you can use or you simply log into your Zur account and enter the webinar from the My Webinars section of your account.
The webinar will open 10 minutes prior to start time. It is recommended that you join early to give yourself time to troubleshoot potential connection problems.
Tokens may not be used with webinars.