Oh dear! Oh dear! My client is not making progress in therapy!
Oh dear! Oh dear! My client is not making progress in therapy!
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About this event
Friday 3 July 2026
(This workshop recording will be made available to registered delegates)
This workshop will be held at 9am in Sydney AET; 7am in Perth, and 11am in New Zealand.
Duration: 1.5 hours per workshop
Oh dear! Oh dear! My client is not making progress in therapy!
paraphrased from the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland
This 1.5-hour masterclass will examine a protocol for assessing change in therapy in a collaborative manner and responding to gradual change using helpful strategies. Various ideas will be explored, including: giving the client the opportunity to start the process of change before therapy commences and using that information to personalise therapy; incorporation of an understanding of what troubles the client most and how this changes over therapy and how to use this information where there is gradual change; measuring progress each session and sharing this with the client in a motivationally enhancing way; setting up an early review from the start and how best to conduct this in the face of rapid or gradual response. Where little impact on the eating disorder symptoms is noted, we will discuss making active decisions with the client about alternative directions in therapy.
Pre-reading (open access papers)
- Wade TD, Shafran R, Cooper Z. (2024). Developing a protocol to address co-occurring mental health conditions in the treatment of eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 57, 1291-1299. doi: 10.1002/eat.24008
- Zhou Y, Pellizzer M, Keegan E, Wade TD. (2024). Factor structure and psychometric properties of the ED-15 in people with an eating disorder. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 57, 2235-2245. doi: 10.1002/eat.24271
- Wade TD, Waller G. (2025). Transdiagnostic single session interventions identify rapid versus gradual responders and inform therapy personalisation before commencing therapy for eating disorders. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. doi: 10.1080/16506073.2025.2547977
Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor Tracey Wade has worked as a clinician and researcher in mental health for over 30 years. She is the director of the Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders. She has cowritten 4 books on cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders and perfectionism and has over 300 publications in peer reviewed journals. In 2015 she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. In 2023 she was the recipient of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy Distinguished Career Award. In 2025 she received the Academy of Eating Disorders Leadership Award in Research, the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Australian Psychological Society Distinguished Contribution to Psychological Science Award. Over 2024 to 2028 she is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant 2025665
Workshop Pricing:
ANZAED Members - $85 | Non Members - $100
This workshop will be held online. A Zoom link will be sent to your email 24 hours prior to the Workshop.