Complexity and Eating Disorders

About this event

Presenter: Associate Professor Randall Long

Abstract: 

This webinar explores the increasing awareness of complexity and comorbidity experienced by patients living with eating disorders. A diverse range of physical, psychological, and social disorders and issues interact with eating disorder development, care, and recovery. These conditions often explain why some people develop eating disorders, form barriers to recovery and pose challenges to live with after recovery. A person with an eating disorder cannot simply put these conditions on hold, so a clinician must embrace the simultaneous complexity and comorbidity as a strategic part of everyday eating disorder care.  The aim of this webinar is to present clinically useful knowledge, skills, and tools to care for these conditions. The webinar will explore complexity and comorbidity in the areas of mood, anxiety, personality, neurodivergence, hypermobile joints, dysautonomia, connective tissue and trauma and psychopathy survival.  The webinar will aim to increase familiarity with these issues by referencing accepted explanatory models, assessment and rapid detection techniques by complex pattern recognition and key clinical inquiry techniques that produce clinical formulation driven strategic management planning. The presenter has a keen interest in complexity and comorbidity in eating disorders that has crystalised out of professional experience in complex and severe eating disorder care, multidisciplinary team management and psychosomatic medicine in a range of subspecialist areas including psychotherapy, neuropsychiatry and neurostimulation.