Event Dates: August 23, 2011
When: 23rd August, 2011
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Where: TBA
Cost: $175
Enquiries: Suzanne Wood, Mental Health Training Unit Coordinator
Phone: 02 8922 9083
Email: suzanne.wood@ wesleymission.org.au
Registrations close : 12th August,2011
The aim of the workshop is to provide professionals with sufficient knowledge to be able to identify people who either have, or may be at risk of developing an eating disorder, make initial contact with them, provide relevant information and possibly refer for specialist treatment/intervention. The workshop will introduce participants to a range of available evidence based interventions for people suffering from eating disorders.
Who attends the training?
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Nurses
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Youth workers
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Social workers
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Case worker
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Counsellors
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Allied health professionals
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School counselors
The outcomes
The workshop will-
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Introduce participants to the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for eating disorders and consider issues around sub-clinical diagnoses and disordered eat-ing behaviours.
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Provide information about the physical and emo-tional correlates of eating disorders/disordered eat-ing
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Provide research outlining the major risk factors for eating disorders and the warning signs
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Consider the varying roles of health professionals in the lives of their clients
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Provide skills to enhance engagement with clients
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Highlight psycho-education based early interven-tions (Media Literacy, Self-Acceptance, Mindful Eat-ing) that may be applied either individually or in group formats
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Provide a basic understanding of specialist treat-ment services and therapeutic approaches will be provided, enabling participants to make referrals
To Register, go to: http://mybookingmanager.com/Eatingdisorders
Comments
Largely, eating disorders do affect young women more than men and older people. This is true, I would also submit that in general, drug or alcohol addiction afflicts almost half of eating disorder sufferers. Often times, stimulant abuse makes it easier to not want to eat. Here is more information on the subject of eating disorders and addiction: http://www.recoveryconnection.org/eating-disorders/
Hopefully, more women in the spotlight like Demi Lovato and Jennifer Hudson will be applauded for being open about their battles with image and weight. More women like that are needed to break the stranglehold Hollywood has on then thin image.
Namaste'
Angela Weber
We could use more workshops of this kind if we take a closer look to the eating disorder statistics. More and more people develop problems with eating, we need to get prepared to what's coming. Eating disorder treatments need people like these.
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