GroundED

Organisation / Service

Centre for Clinical Interventions

GroundED is a new digital application program providing immediate, evidence-based education and recovery steps for clients with eating disorders. 

GroundED will help people access support while waiting to see a clinical psychologist. The program has been developed by the team at the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) in partnership with people who have lived experience of eating disorders and recovery. 

GroundED is initially being piloted with clients aged 18+ who live in Western Australia and are referred to the Centre for Clinical Interventions eating disorders program by a medical practitioner

National Strategy Standards and Actions

Initial response

Standard 1: Mental health professionals at key entry or referral points can conduct an initial eating disorder assessment including psychiatric risk, make a preliminary diagnosis, provide psychoeducation, refer the person to the appropriate level of treatment and supports, and continue to engage the person and family/supports throughout any waiting time for treatment. 

Action 1.1: Training providers to ensure that mental health professionals are trained to conduct an initial eating disorder assessment including psychiatric risk, make a preliminary diagnosis, provide psychoeducation, refer the person to the appropriate level of treatment, and continue to engage the person and family/supports throughout any waiting time for treatment. 

Community-based treatment

Standard 2: Treatment services routinely offer or refer to early and brief community interventions for people with binge-eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, OSFED (excluding atypical anorexia nervosa), UFED, and subthreshold eating disorders where clinically indicated.

Action 2.2: Services providing eating disorder treatment to ensure staff have capacity to offer, or refer to, early and brief interventions (online or face-to-face) such as single session interventions, guided self-help or other brief manualised interventions where clinically indicated.