IOI eClinic

Organisation / Service

InsideOut Institute

The InsideOut eClinic is an eTherapy platform for people with eating disorders. 

The eClinic provides a secure digital platform which provides the following features:

·       Pure self-help, evidence-based eTherapy programs

·       Self-monitoring and digital skills tool

·       Questionnaires and feedback

It is available for people over 16 years old who are suffering from binge-eating disorder and bulimia nervosa.

The eTherapies provided under the eClinic are:

1. BEeT (10 session program for binge eating and bulimia nervosa completed over 16 weeks)
2. Brief BEeT (4 session program for binge eating and bulimia nervosa completed over 8 weeks)
3. SupportED (5 session program for carers of people with an eating disorder) – coming soon

National Strategy Standards and Actions

Treatment

Standard 1: People can access timely treatment and at the level of intensity they need, as close to home as possible (including digital options), and move between levels of treatment intensity in a seamless and supported way.

Action 1.6: Researchers, in conjunction with service providers and people with lived experience, to conduct further research into treatment interventions including brief and/or digital interventions, as well as other innovative solutions to meet needs.

Standard 4: Treatment models and practices are effective and evidence-based.

Action 4.4: Researchers, in conjunction with service providers and people with lived experience, to conduct research into existing as well as innovative treatment models to improve outcomes.

Standard 8: Treatment is affordable.

Action 8.2: Regional planners to ensure that there are low-cost treatment options in their region for those who require them.

Treatment (community-based)

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 sub-threshold 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.