Patricia Roles
MSW, RSW, BCATR
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Adoption Reunion, Family Relationships, Separation, Loss and Eating Disorders Expert
Patricia Roles Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Family relationships, adoptive and blended families, adoption reunion, separation and divorce, grief and loss, and eating disorders.
- Best Sellers
- Book Publications: Saying Goodbye to a Baby: Volume 1 & 2; Facing Teenage Pregnancy; Jou al Articles on Eating Disorders and Birthparent Loss and Grief.
- Career Focus
- Family therapy, art therapy, medical and psychiatric social work, eating disorders, birthparent loss, adoption reunion
- Affiliation
- Academy for Eating Disorders, BC Association for Art Therapy, BC Association of Social Workers, Canadian Eating Disorders Association, Social Workers in Health Care
Individual and Family Therapist: provides face-to-face counselling including art therapy and e-counseling online via email. Areas of specialization include: family relationships, adolescent conflict, adoption issues, adoption reunion, birthparent loss, separation and divorce, grief, eating disorders and weight issues.
As well as private practice, employed full time at Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia as Professional Practice Coordinator for the discipline of Social Work with half-time as family therapist in the Eating Disorders Program with children and youth. Over 25 years counseling experience.
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Birthparent Loss and Grief
In the last decade, there has been a growing acceptance that a loss occurs for birth parents when adoption takes place. In the past, the emphasis in the adoption process has largely been on the reception of the child into the adoptive family rather than the reciprocal loss of the baby for the ...
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Anorexia and Bulimia: Signs and Symptoms
Eating Disorders are a Coping Mechanism: Eating disorders develop for a reason. They do not appear out of the blue. The reason may not be apparent initially though as many youth keep their conce s to themselves and don't share their self-doubt, fears and worries. Eating disorders develop as ...
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Contacting Patricia Roles
Patricia Roles
email address: e-mailtherapy@shaw.ca
phone: 604-375-9215
website: http://www.e-mailtherapy.com