Single Session Thinking in-Practice: Child & Youth Eating Disorders Workshop

La Trobe University The Bouverie Centre

About this event

Working with children and youth impacted by eating disorders often requires clinicians to respond to complex circumstances. Engagement with the individuals and families may be brief and unpredictable, however, they are opportunities to build trust and support motivation for change.

Single Session Thinking (SST) is particularly well suited to child and youth eating disorder settings, where timely, developmentally attuned, and collaborative care can strengthen therapeutic alliances, relational health goals, and improve engagement and outcomes across inpatient, outpatient, and community contexts.

Single Session Thinking: Child and Youth Eating Disorders (SST-CYED) is a practice framework implementation workshop aimed at developing foundational knowledge and skills in the SST framework and to support its application within child and youth eating disorder practice.

This is an implementation‑focused workshop led by experienced clinicians with expertise in child and youth eating disorders and Single Session Thinking (SST) practice.

The workshop will cover:

By attending this workshop, you will be able to:

·       Develop your understanding of SST and how single‑session approaches support timely engagement in eating‑disorder care;

·       Understand SST attitudes and skills, and how these can influence the work you do

·       Begin to apply SST techniques, including the SST Map to assist your structure to eating disorders treatment work

·       Consider factors that will enable or constrain the integration of SST into your everyday practice.