Longstanding (Severe and Enduring) Anorexia Nervosa

Centre for Eating, Weight and Body Image

About this event

Presented by Professor Phillipa Hay. The aim of this training is to increase the understanding and enhance skills of participants in the care of people with longstanding or severe and enduring anorexia nervosa (SE-AN). The training will begin with a presentation of the current status of knowledge regarding SE-AN, its conceptualisation and its treatment. This will lead into a presentation on principles of management using a recovery-oriented practice model and a detailed interactive presentation on how therapies have been adapted for SE-AN. This will be interleaved with case vignettes, small group discussions & role plays to illustrate and practice specific management elements. \r\n\r\nThe skills that will be presented include forming a therapeutic alliance over a lengthy engagement period with extended motivational interviewing and tailoring therapy to the clients stage of change, promoting autonomy through a collaborative ‘goal setting’ process, utilisation of psycho-education and supportive psychotherapy, addressing interpersonal and social deficits and affect regulation through expansion of self-schema and other techniques, medical safety, and attaining behavioural change with revised outcomes of quality of life rather than weight restoration. The workshop will close with an open \'question & answer\' panel session with an opportunity to discuss participant cases.