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Upcoming events
An important part of the NEDC’s role is to foster and promote professional learning. If you would like to have your event listed here, please contact us.
Events Calendar
May
• Dove body think and early intervention workshops
• At home with eating disorders
• Working with carers with a brain based approach to eating disorders
June
• Dove bodythink and early intervention workshops
• CBT-E: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders
• Eating disorders training 2013
July
• Dove bodythink and early intervention workshops
• Family therapy training 2013
• Interpersonal therapy (IPT) and eating disorders
August
The Butterfly Foundation Dove BodyThink and Early Intervention workshops
The Butterfly Foundation are offering Dove BodyThink and Early Intervention workshops.
Dove BodyThink is a positive body image program for young people designed to help develop their media literacy, self esteem and body image. Teachers and other professionals can run the Dove BodyThink programs for their students or young people once they have learnt the easy, flexible workshop activities including discussion topics and a digital video clip. You will also receive a resource pack as part of the workshop which will support you to run the program.
Early Intervention Workshops help professionals working with young people to recognise and respond appropriately to early warning signs of disordered eating and clinical eating disorders.
Workshop Dates and Locations for 2013
Thursday 30th May, Auckland NZ
Dove BodyThink: 9:30am – 12:30pm
Thursday 6th June, Canberra ACT
Dove BodyThink: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Early Intervention: 1:00pm – 4:30pm
Tuesday 8th June, Adelaide SA
Dove BodyThink: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Early Intervention: 1:00pm – 4:30pm
For registrations and other information visit the Butterfly Foundation website.
At Home with Eating Disorders
At Home with Eating Disorders is the 1st Australian eating disorders conference for families and carers and is being held on May 23-25, 2013 in Brisbane.
Best evidence for eating disorders shows that the close involvement of families and carers in the care of their loved ones is key to improving early detection, restoration to a healthy weight and maintaining long term wellbeing. For parents and carers, however, the journey can be confusing, challenging and difficult to navigate.
The primary aim of At Home with Eating Disorders is to provide families and caregivers of people with eating disorders with access to a range of expert information and knowledge so that they can leave the conference feeling empowered, better informed and more able to support, care for and assist in the recovery of the person with the eating disorder.
The secondary aim of the conference is to provide opportunities to network and connect with others who share a similar experience, in a safe and supported environment.
Keynote speakers include:
- Professor Daniel Le Grange, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience and Director of the Eating Disorders Center at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
- Professor Janet Treasure, Professor of Psychiatry at King’s College London and Head of the Eating Disorders Unit at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.
Clinicians and people with eating dsorders wanting to learn more about the role of families and carers in supporting recovery are also welcomed.
The program and flyer have been made available.
More details can be found on the event website.
Family Therapy Training 2013
Family Therapy Training 2013 is a series of workshops run by the Children's Hospital Eating Disorder Service at Westmead Hospital that provide practical skills and confidence to work with child and adolescent eating disorders.
The workshops will be lead by Andrew Wallis, Colleen Alford and the therapy team at the Children's Hospital Eating Disorder Service. The presenters have taught these workshops nationally for many years and are highly experienced in the models.
The schedule for the workshops is as follows:
- July 4-5: Practical Guide to Family Therapy Skills Workshop
- October 18: Advanced Family Based Treatment Workshop
For my details download the flyer.
CBT-E: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders
Facilitated by Dr Beth Shelton & Michelle Roberton, CEED Eating Disorders Senior Clinicians, this event will be held at the Poplar Learning Centre, Victoria on Friday, 14th June.
A 1-day comprehensive introduction to Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT-E), the latest version of the leading empirically supported, outpatient psychological treatment of eating disorders. The workshop draws on the work of Prof Christopher Fairburn, Director of the Centre for Research on Eating Disorders at Oxford University (CREDO), and Dr Anthea Fursland, researcher and principal psychologist of the Eating Disorders Program at the Centre for Clinical Investigations, WA (CCI).
The training will involve didactic, interactive & experiential practise opportunities. Prior knowledge of understanding eating disorders, eating disorders assessment & basic CBT principles is assumed.
For more details visit the CEED website or download the flyer below.
Working with carers with a brain based approach to eating disorders
Facilitated by Janet Treasure, "working with carers with a brain based approach to eating disorders" will be held Sunday May 26th at the RANZCP 2013 Congress.
Eating disorders have peak onset in adolescence when most individuals are at home with the family. In addition to the impact that they have on the individual they also have profound effects on others. Families are often puzzled by the illness and the changes in the individual that they love and are uncertain about how to help. This can lead to high distress and uncertainty which has been found to inadvertently contribute to the maintenance of the illness. However, when carers are informed and have strategies to help manage the illness distress is reduced. Furthermore, individuals with the eating disorder notice the change in carer’s behaviour and find it beneficial. A calm, compassionate caring approach from parents also allows individuals with an eating disorder to model this form of behaviour towards themselves.
Visit the RANZCP website for more details.
Eating Disorders Training 2013
The Eating Disorders Training and Evaluation Cenre (EDTEC) at the Princess Margaret Hospital in WA offer a number of professional workshops throughout the year. These workshops are facilitated by clinical multidisciplinary staff of the Eating Disorders Program.
Did you know that:
- Body Image is the number one concern in Australian youth aged 12 to 25 (Mission Australia, 2011).
- Disordered eating increased two-fold among Australian males and females from the 1990s to 2000s.
- One in five Australian teenage girls experience some form of disordered eating.
- Disordered eating can cause serious physical, psychological and social harm with those who have body image disturbance more likely to engage in dangerous diets, excessive exercise, and substance abuse.
- Adolescent females who diet at a severe level are 18 times more likely to develop an Eating Disorder within 6 months.
- MANY PEOPLE WITH BODY IMAGE AND EATING DISORDERS DO NOT ACCESS HELP, BUT HELP IS AVAILABLE!
To discuss your training needs or request information and resources for health professionals, please contact the training coordinator on 9340 7012 or via email: ulrike.osullivan@health.wa.gov.au.
Download the flyer for more details.
2013 ANZAED Conference
This year the Annual ANZAED conference will be held in Melbourne on the 23-24 August 2013 with a clinical training day on 22 August.
The conference of the Australia & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders brings clinicians and researchers together to update each other on the latest local and international developments in the field.
The conference includes keynote addresses from Dr Susie Orbach, London psychotherapist and writer and Professor Joe Proietto, University of Melbourne researcher into physiological mechanisms associated with weight & weight loss.
The conference will also include presentations by researchers & clinicians, plenary sessions, workshops, poster presentations and opportunities for networking.
Susie Orbach will present a pre-conference clinical workshop on 22 August on "How do we get a body?". Additional workshops include "Medical Management of eating disorders" by Jennifer Gaudiani from the Denver ACUTE; "What to do when.." (on the challenges of clinical management) by Carloyn Costin; a dietetic workshop and workshop for nurses.
Visit the ANZAED conference website for more details.
