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CBT for Eating Disorders.
CBT for Eating Disorders training is a 3-day course from The Association for Psychological Therapies, a leading provider of training in mental health and related areas. We bring this APT-Accredited course to your own organisation, for maximum cost-effectiveness, and up to 15 people can attend. (2-day version also available.)
Executive Summary:
Eating Disorders pose a tremendous threat to an individual's physical and mental well-being and are usually a source of great concern to friends, family and professionals alike. This course looks at the full range of eating disorder presentations, and recognises that many individuals present in ways that don't perfectly fit any of the diagnostic categories. The course addresses the complex causes of an individual's eating disorder alongside a cognitive behavioral understanding and techniques for maximising the chances of a successful intervention.
The aims of the course:
The course aims to communicate the following:
- The nature and course of eating disorders.
- Assessment and formulation, also with reference to risk assessment and management.
- Psychological treatment methods, with special reference to the NICE guidelines.
The course covers:
- Eating Disorder categorisations (and how well - or badly -individuals fit into the categories*).
- NICE guidelines for treatment.
- The first session; the therapeutic alliance, trust, empathy, and assessment.
- Risk assessment and management: some eating disorders have a very high morbidity rate, so risk assessment needs to be thorough.
- Assessment: motivation and insight; dietary and nutritional issues; core psychopathology of the Eating Disorder; co-morbid psychiatric illness; social and familialfactors; cognitive factors.
- The especial importance of multi-disciplinary working in this area.
- Standard session planning and agreeing homework tasks.
- Diary keeping for monitoring food intake, regular eating and associated thoughts, feelings or other relevant factors.
- Friends and family ask “What should we try to get her toeat?” and they are entitled to a proper answer, so we have an information sheet on this.
- Responding to unhelpful behaviours and problem solving.
- Psychoeducation – information to discuss with patients.
- Functional analysis and exploring potential mechanisms maintaining an eating disorder.*
- Supporting a person’s motivation through treatment.*
- Applying other helpful CBT strategies to improve the lives of people with eating disorders.*
- Managing as an effective clinician: working with eating disorders is demanding, so how do we deal with our own anxiety and emotional responses?
- Finishing work: concluding therapy successfully; follow up and relapse prevention.
*On the 3-day version only.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.
Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 100,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
Booking this training is easy.
Option 1: Bring the course to your organization:
Up to 15 people can attend this course and we bring it to you for a fixed fee. The 3-day course costs $6,595 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses), and the 2-day version costs $4,695 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses).
To book, email office@aptcanada.com, or click the button:
Option 2: 'Train the Trainer':
If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course - or your chosen modules from it - in your own organization, under license.
This is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organization the tutor-component of the fee (around 50%) each time you run it or your chosen modules.
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Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course.
Average Presentation rating: 95%
Average Relevance rating: 94%
*These statistics were last updated in April 2017.
Written Feedback.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the CBT with Eating Disorders course has received.
"The best course I have been on throughout my career. It will certainly improve my day to day practice. Thank you so much, it was really well delivered.”
“Best course I have attended since working in the NHS.”