Family Based Treatment (FBT) for Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa

New Zealand Eating Disorders Clinic

About this event

FBT is recommended by the 2014 RANZCP guidelines for eating disorders as the first line treatment of choice for anorexia nervosa of children and adolescents under the age of 18 with an illness duration of less than three years. FBT is a behavioural treatment empowering parents to manage their child’s eating disorder through a firm, compassionate focus on renourishment efforts and extinction of eating disorder behaviours with gradual transition of control over eating back to the adolescent to enable a quick return to normal child or adolescent development, reflected in both eating behaviour and daily life. This training is based on the revised and expanded 3rd Edition of the Training Manual and incorporates the teaching of a new empirically based adjunctive treatment intervention for identifiable specific families to improve treatment outcomes.

The workshop is suitable for clinicians working with children and adolescents with eatingdisorders, including psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, occupational therapists and medical practitioners. This workshop is accredited towards certification as FBT therapist. It will provide a thorough understanding of the background, theory and application of FBT. It will utilise an interactive format, including clinical discussion, role play and lecture.

This training has been approved by NEDC as meeting the requirement of Evidence-Based Treatment Model (AFT) training as required for the ANZAED Eating Disorder Credential.