Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders (Workshop)
Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders (Workshop)
The Centre For Eating, Weight and Body Image
About this event
Summary
Schema Therapy is ideally suited to the treatment of eating disorders, alongside a range of comorbidities including OCD, GAD, low mood, rigid personality traits, and PTSD. This Level 1 workshop is for those who are new to or have completed preliminary training in the schema therapy model. Participants will learn the basic principles of the schema therapy model as applied to working with eating disorders. This training will provide guidance and practical experience on implementing techniques for working with entrenched early maladaptive schemas/core beliefs that drive eating disorder behaviours including imagery rescripting, chair work & other techniques for change. Videos and live demonstrations will be used to illustrate experiential change techniques. Training will specifically include working with vulnerable [child] modes, limited reparenting skills, bypassing avoidant or over-compensatory coping modes, and fighting punitive (self-critical) or guilt inducing thinking patterns that drive eating disorder behaviours.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn:
• How to recognise & work with schema modes relevant to people with eating disorders.
• How to conceptualise clients’ eating disorder symptoms & comorbidities using a schema mode map.
• How to apply cognitive, experiential, and interpersonal strategies for change, including chairwork & Imagery Rescripting, with an emphasis on deeper level change with core beliefs/schema.
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About the Presenter
Dr. Susan Simpson is a Clinical Psychologist with specialist expertise in the treatment of severe and complex eating disorders. She has 20 years of experience using Schema Therapy with complex comorbidity, including eating disorders, OCD, personality disorders and PTSD. She is part of an international research group which is investigating the effectiveness of Schema Therapy for eating disorders. She has published several book chapters and journal articles on schema therapy, with a particular focus on the eating disorder population. In addition, she has presented at national and international eating disorders conferences and has provided several workshops on Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders across the world. She is co-author/editor of the book ‘Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders’, Routledge, 2019.
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 treatment of eating disorders or disordered eating, including psychologists, psychiatrists, dietitians, social workers, counsellors, and allied health clinicians.
This workshop is suitable for clinicians who are new to schema therapy as well as those who have completed introductory or Level 1 schema therapy training and wish to deepen their understanding of schema-informed approaches for eating disorder presentations and common comorbidities. The training may be attended as a precursor to formal Level 1 schema therapy training or as an opportunity to consolidate and apply schema therapy concepts specifically within eating disorder treatment. Foundational knowledge of eating disorders is assumed. 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.