Family-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders
Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute
Date: May 18, 2023
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET
Facilitators: Gina Dimitropoulos, MSW, PhD and Kristen Anderson, MA, LCSW, CEDS-S
Description:
Eating disorders have long been considered to be chronic and intractable mental illnesses that are difficult to treat. However, the introduction of Family-Based Therapy (FBT) or “Maudsley” for anorexia and bulimia nervosa has changed the way we think about the treatment of these disorders. FBT has been found to be effective with children and adolescents, who have been ill for less than three years and are under age 18, with between 50-70% of patients achieving recovery after a year of treatment.
FBT works to empower parents to manage their child’s eating disorder through a firm, compassionate focus on re-nourishment efforts. The treatment emphasizes the importance of parental efforts at re-nourishment, then the transition of control back to the adolescent. The importance of a return to normal development, both in eating and in the child or adolescent’s daily living, is essential for preventing relapse and rounds out the end of treatment. Endorsed by the NICE guidelines as the first line of treatment for child and adolescent eating disorders.
This one-day introductory training will focus on the scientific rationale, overall treatment paradigm, fundamental assumptions, and main intervention used in the three phases of manualized family-based treatment (FBT) for anorexia nervosa.
Learning objectives:
- Gain a broad understanding of the FBT model and applications to anorexia nervosa
- Opportunity to observe role plays in FBT to broaden understanding of the model for clinical application
- Gain a general understanding of the research support for this method
Registration fee: General - $250 | Student - $225
For full program overview and registration details please visit: https://cvent.me/ZPQ3zO
Continuing Education (CE) information: 6 CE hours
SickKids CCMH Learning Institute has approval from the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) for participants of our programming to apply the number of CE hours earned in the program towards their continuing education hours.
Other licensing boards and professional organizations will grant continuing education credits for attendance at their own discretion; participants will need to submit the course outline and certificate for their consideration.
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