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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 8:07 am
I am enjoying this show. The people make a lot of progress without the biggest loser ranch and without Jill (she leaves after a week). Last night, the mom lost 74 lb in 8 weeks! Her goal was 20 but Jill upped it to 40 lb.
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Jenjackso
Member
02-10-2009
| Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 8:54 am
I'm glad that you're enjoying it. I just can't watch Jillian in this show. She seems like she is overacting all of the time. Is she a psychologist? It was irritating to me that she was doing the hoarding work related to the garage and didn't have a specialist in there to help with the mental side of that. I admit that I turned the channel after that started so she might have gotten a professional to come in and help with the mental aspect of that but she is not qualified to be doing that type of work with a hoarder.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 11:06 am
I didn't think the woman on last night's show was a hoarder. Her house was really tidy, there was just a lot of stuff in the garage. I think she was hanging on to it because she was upset/depressed/angry about her divorce 2 yrs. ago and that her life wasn't going how she expected. (In a previous week, a house did look like a hoarder lived there. I don't remember it very well, but I remember Jill staying in a hotel instead of at the house.) As a viewer, I actually think Jill can be very soft and understanding. I think she does a good job with the psychology aspect...however, I do wonder about that. I don't think she is a psychologist, don't know for sure, and wonder and hope there are psychologists advising her because it would be awful if she did some psychological damage to someone. Everyone seems to turn out ok and better for having been with Jill. (on this show and Biggest Loser) But I'm not the type that just hopes all will be ok because it always has. I would think the people/families for this and BL would go through psyc screening first.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 11:31 am
I think I remember from The Biggest Loser that Jillian's mother is a psychologist. Jillian said in a recent interview that her job on this show is not just being a personal trainer, but rather a "Life coach". I don't know what credentials one needs to fill that bill (if any).
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 12:07 pm
There are an awful lot of people without a professional designation who offer free therapy. I don't know that it is a particularly great idea but Jillian is part of a large club.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, June 20, 2010 - 11:35 am
Any number of people can be therapeutic in working with people.. not only psychatrists (who mostly seem to control the medications and often have little time for talk therapy, and psychologists and those with degrees in therapy at masters or PhD levels or trained or even untrained peer counselors. I've been amazed over my life at just how many credentialed, trained people are simply horrid and unhelpful to the people who trust them and hoe often someone can just be a natural at empathizing and helping. So it is hard to say how much knowledge and natural empathy Jillian has and how much formal training or informal training she has racked up as well. The main goal is for the person to be supported in helping change their own situation. Now if she is dispensing psych meds or using dangerous techniques, that's a different story. I've only watched this a couple of times so far. Mary, I know they have, or last I looked, they had some schools that certified someone to be a life coach but not sure if there is any official certification .. Could be by now. Otherwise life coach could be anyone with interest in helping a person to move forward towards a goal and wouldn't necessarilry involve some of the exercises we saw on Starting Over, but could involve them I suppose. Life Coaching as opposed to therapy would say to me that the coach would be more actively involved in the actual life of the person they were coaching than a therapist might be, since they often do more listening.. but again, there are so many different styles used.
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