Compassion-Focused Therapy for Eating Disorders: Supporting Recovery Through Compassionate Engagement
Compassion-Focused Therapy for Eating Disorders: Supporting Recovery Through Compassionate Engagement
The Centre For Eating, Weight and Body Image
About this event
Summary
This workshop presents some of the ways in which Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) can be used to support individuals struggling with eating disorders, including those with trauma-related symptoms. We will explore how CFT integrates with standard treatment approaches and consider the delivery of CFT in individual, group, online, and in-person contexts.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
1) Describe the theoretical foundations of Compassion-Focused Therapy and explain its relevance to eating and body image concerns, including in the context of trauma.
2) Formulate eating disorder presentations using a CFT lens, identifying the roles of shame, self-criticism, and emotion regulation difficulties.
3) Apply compassion-focused strategies across a range of treatment settings, including individual, group, face-to-face, and online formats.
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Prerequisite Requirements
General knowledge of eating disorders is assumed. Participants also need to complete the Inside Out Institute’s Eating Disorders Essentials Training, the National Eating Disorders Collaboration Training, or equivalent training as a minimum prerequisite.
Speakers
Audience
Health professionals involved in the assessment or treatment of eating disorders, disordered eating, or body image concerns, including psychologists, psychiatrists, dietitians, social workers, counsellors, nurses, and allied health clinicians working across mental health settings.
This workshop is designed for clinicians with foundational knowledge of eating disorders who are interested in integrating Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) principles into their clinical work. The training is suitable for practitioners seeking to develop skills in compassion-focused formulation and intervention strategies to address shame, self-criticism, and emotion regulation difficulties commonly associated with eating disorder presentations, including those with trauma-related features. Participants are expected to have completed the InsideOut Institute’s Eating Disorders Essentials Training, National Eating Disorders Collaboration training, or equivalent introductory education prior to attending.