You have done the courses about supporting people with eating disorders; you have the intellectual understanding and know what interventions to use.
You may have worked with a few clients; and you still have some anticipation anxiety or fear when you think about supporting this client group?
Maybe you are experienced in supporting clients with disordered eating/ eating disorders; But you would like to improve your reflective practice skills, lean into the nuance of eating disorder care or ensure you are considering the voice of lived experience ?
Then this is the course you are looking for.
What is included in the course?
The course draws on educational theory and is broken down into small digestible chunks that can be enjoyed in less than 30 minutes each.
Reflection activities are integrated throughout to aiding developing reflexivity skills and prompts that can be further explored in supervision sessions.
All videos are kept to 20 mins long to work with concentration capacity.
All articles include links to further information and reading to consolidate and further learning.
The voice of lived experience in the form of quotes from our lived experience consultants are peppered throughout the course.
Many infographics have been developed to support visual learners depicting the interconnections between frameworks. These are novel and developed just for this course!
Printable PDFs are included for use in session with clients of all infographics.
Printable resources exploring The Eating Disorder Cycle and The Eating Spectrum included. As well as printable worksheets to use with clients to aid their understanding of their own experience.
Printable Resources for your own learning and to share with clients about where to go from more information about Eating disorder and gender diversity, neuro diversity, and supporting children and adolescents.
Printable Resources for you and to use with clients recommending Books, podcasts, social media and online resources.
Informed by lived experience and wisdom from clinical practice this course is designed to push you to the edges of your experience supporting people with eating disorders.
To encourage reflective practice. To explore shades of the evidence frame works and how they can fit with the individual you are working with, considering all of them, supporting them to improve in line with their goals, without causing harm.
Radical Client Centred Framework
The course commences with an exploration of the RCC which was born from lived experience consultation and provides a novel way to conceptuses the individual and the eating disorder.
Eating Disorder Diagnosis
A deep dive into the nuance of diagnosis.
Review of screening tools.
The possible positive and negative impacts for clients of the diagnosis process.
Whose responsibility is is it to diagnose?
The Multidisciplinary Team in Eating Disorder Care
Who is responsible for what ?
How do I advocate for my client to get diagnoses or Medicare Eating disorders care plan ?
What's my role?
A review of where the roles and responsibilities of the MD intersect and overlap.
Client Connection
A deep dive into all aspects of connecting with clients and building therapeutic alliance.
Permission to focus on rapport building and know you are working in scope.
Physical and Virtual Environments
A review of considerations for setting up physical and virtual space to attend to your clients nervous system needs.
The interrelationship of interventions for eating disorders
An exploration of when and how to use the evidence based frameworks considering the needs of the individual you are supporting.
Infographics supporting the interrelationship between different tools and when and how they can be applied in the recovery process.
Example Curriculum
- Reflection - Pre-section introduction
- Article - The overlapping roles of the multidisciplinary care team in eating disorder support
- Article - Is our role to focus on just food and nutrients?
- Article - Advocating for diagnosis within the MDT
- Printable PDF - Overlapping roles and responsibilities of the MDT, ED care
- Reflection - Multidisciplinary team
- Article - Overview of eating disorder interventions
- Article - The interrelationship between intervention tools and RAVES
- Printable PDF- The interrelationship of dietetic interventions for eating disorders
- Article - Client education as a tool in ED recovery
- Article - The use of meal plan
- Article - Weighing - When, why and how
Suitable for Dietitians and other health professionals
We are credentialed eating disorder clinicians (CEDC) and Dietitians (APD).
The course is written with dietitians in mind but is appropriate for anyone supporting clients with disordered eating and eating disorders.
Mental health workers, exercise physiologists, physiotherapists, nurses will all benefit from hearing the voice of lived experience threaded throughout the course and will learn more about the role of the dietitian in the MDT.
