Specialist Supportive Clin Management (SSCM)
Specialist Supportive Clin Management (SSCM)
The Centre For Eating, Weight and Body Image
About this event
Specialist supportive clinical management is a psychotherapy with a growing body of evidence of its effectiveness in the treatment of anorexia nervosa. It has two distinct components: clinical management, which involves alleviation of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa, particularly focusing on weight gain via resumption of normal eating; and a supportive psychotherapeutic approach to issues, including those that may impact the eating disorder. Gini and colleagues conducted the first trial for anorexia nervosa comparing SSCM with other therapies. Since then, it has been included in other clinical trials, with results comparable to other evidence based treatments. Eating disorder specialist services in New Zealand and other countries now use SSCM as a first-line treatment for anorexia.
This workshop includes a description of the key therapeutic strategies in SSCM. Tools for delivering the therapy will be presented, using practical techniques, case material, and discussion of commonalities and distinctions between SSCM and other psychotherapy approaches for adults with anorexia nervosa. Pre-workshop readings will be provided that describe SSCM and research comparing this therapy with other therapy models.
Learning Outcomes
• Understand SSCM’s key therapeutic strategies
• Be familiar with the evidence base for SSCM for anorexia nervosa
• Recognise distinctions between SSCM and other therapy models
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About the Presenter
Gini is a clinical psychologist who teaches in clinical psychology and postgraduate CBT programmes at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ. Gini has been an investigator and therapist on clinical trials for bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder and major depression and continues to research in these areas. She is trained in CBT, IPT, metacognitive therapy and schema therapy. Along with colleagues she adapted IPT for anorexia nervosa, schema therapy for depression and binge eating and MCT for depression and has developed novel psychotherapies including an appetite focused CBT for binge eating. Gini and colleagues developed SSCM as a control therapy in a trial of psychotherapy treatments for anorexia. SSCM was an effective treatment in the original trial, leading to others.
Requirement
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 in adults, including psychologists, psychiatrists, dietitians, GPs, social workers, counsellors, nurses, and allied health clinicians working in mental health or multidisciplinary treatment settings.
This workshop is designed for clinicians with foundational knowledge of eating disorders who are working with, or intending to work with, adults experiencing anorexia nervosa. The training is suitable for practitioners seeking to develop an understanding of Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM), including its therapeutic strategies, clinical application, and evidence base, and how it compares with other evidence-based psychotherapy approaches. 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.