Who Are We?
The National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC) is dedicated to building an accessible and equitable system of care for all Australians experiencing eating disorders, their families, supports and communities.
NEDC is a national collaborative platform for experts by lived experience, clinicians, leaders, researchers, and services. We generate unified, evidence-based sector positions and consistent national standards that are translated into practical action for the prevention, identification, treatment, and support of eating disorders.
Stepped System of Care
People experiencing an eating disorder require may require access to a range of different services, at different levels of intensity or frequency, across the course of illness (or risk of illness) and recovery. Coordinated, evidence-based services that are matched to a person's needs, and which increase or decrease in intensity according to a person’s changing psychological, physical, nutritional and psychosocial needs are known as the ‘stepped system of care’ for eating disorders.
National Strategy
The National Strategy is a 10-year roadmap to building the eating disorder system of care. It articulates key components, standards and actions that are required to achieve an effective, equitable and coordinated system of care that meets the needs of people experiencing or at risk of eating disorders and their families/supports and communities.
National Training Coordination
Professional development is a process of learning and training which can encompass knowledge and/or skill development. Professional development aims to keep you up to date with the most current evidence and research as well as to help develop new skills.
eLearning
NEDC has developed comprehensive foundational online eating disorder training for GPs, mental health professionals, and fertility care professionals. The Core Skills series is evidence-based, nationally recognised and freely accessible to all members of NEDC (NEDC membership is free).
Upcoming Training & Events
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NovANZAED 2024 Virtual Workshop: Cognitive-behavioural therapy for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (CBT-AR)
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NovTwo ANZAED 2024 Virtual Workshops by Mandy Goldstein: Trauma Informed Care (1) and Trauma & EDs: Introduction to case conceptualisation (2)
05
DecReimagining Healing with Psychedelics for Eating Disorders: Theory, Research and Practice
Browse upcoming trainings, webinars, conferences and other learning activities happening around Australia
ANZAED 2024 Virtual Workshop: Cognitive-behavioural therapy for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (CBT-AR)
This one-day workshop describes a new form of cognitive-behavioural therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), which was recently added to the Feeding and Eating Disorders section of DSM-5 to describe children, adolescents, and adults who cannot meet their nutritional needs, typically because of sensory sensitivity, fear of aversive consequences, and/or lack of interest in eating or food. There is limited research on evidence-based treatments for ARFID; however, this novel manualised approach has tested feasibility, and acceptability with strong preliminary results in children and adolescents, there has also been an evaluation within the adult population. This workshop will fill an important gap for colleagues who are already seeing such patients in clinical practice by providing specialised training in ARFID (CBT-AR) that was developed and tested at Massachusetts General Hospital, USA. The model has also been effectively delivered in the private practice context in Australia with children, adolescents and adults.Browse upcoming trainings, webinars, conferences and other learning activities happening around Australia