Live Training
The upcoming events at BodyMatters include:
Psychologist and BodyMatters Director Sarah McMahon presents a two day workshop on Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT-E). | Zoom, Thursday 8 August and Thursday 15 August 2024 10am to 5pm AEST
Location: Via Zoom, Link to be provided prior to the event.
Price: $891 ($800 + GST + TryBooking Processing Fee)
Date: Thursday 8 August and Thursday 15 August 2024
About the Workshop:
This online, two day, interactive training provides participants with a solid understanding of Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT-E) and practical skills to implement it with clients. CBT-E is a transdiagnostic approach to treating eating disorders, considered to be a gold standard, front line treatment for adults. It is a manualised and structured intervention that is simultaneously highly personalized and targets the factors that maintain a person’s eating disorder.
The efficacy of CBT-E is supported by the fact that It is one of the modal training recognised by the Australian Eating Disorder Credentialing program and also one of the therapies that can be delivered for medicare subsidized treatment under the Eating Disorder Treatment Plan .
The training will provide a comprehensive introduction to the model including detail on implementing each of the four stages of CBT-E and the application of these to the full range of eating disorders seen in clinical practice.
Please note: a basic understanding of Eating Disorders and CBT are prerequisites for training.
About the presenter:
Sarah McMahon is the Director of BodyMatters Australasia, a sydney based private practice with a particular interest in treating eating and body image issues. Sarah has worked in the field of eating disorders for approximately 15 years and has supported hundreds of individuals to achieve recovery. Sarah is well known for her compassionate and respectful approach to treatment as well as her ability to engage with clients in the early stages of change, supporting them through the recovery journey.
Pricing:
- Regular: $891 ($800 + GST + TryBooking Processing Fee)
This workshop is credentialed for NEDC.
Psychologist and BodyMatters Director Sarah McMahon presents a one day workshop on Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT-E) for Adolescents. | Zoom, Thursday 29 August 2024 10am to 5pm AEST
Location: Via Zoom, Link to be provided prior to the event.
Price: $451 ($400 + GST + TryBooking Processing Fee)
Date: Thursday 29 August 2024
About the Workshop:
CBT-E offers a promising new evidence based treatment framework for adolescents recovering from eating disorders. Similar to the adult version of CBT-E, the adolescent version is a personalized intervention that targets key maintaining features of eating disorders and provides an additional framework for working with an adolescent client, including involving family members as support. It is an individual treatment designed to enhance an adolescent’s agency and autonomy, build engagement and can be applied transdiagnostically. This one day workshop will support you to apply this model of treatment.
About the presenter:
Sarah McMahon is the Director of BodyMatters Australasia, a sydney based private practice with a particular interest in treating eating and body image issues. Sarah has worked in the field of eating disorders for approximately 15 years and has supported hundreds of individuals to achieve recovery. Sarah is well known for her compassionate and respectful approach to treatment as well as her ability to engage with clients in the early stages of change, supporting them through the recovery journey.
Learning Outcomes:
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An understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of CBT-E Adolescent
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To understand when CBT-E is indicated and contraindicated
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To understand the key differences between the adult and adolescent version of CBT-E
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To understand the key differences between MFBT and CBT-E
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Ability to deliver the model, including:
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Formulation
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Implement core tenets of the treatment
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Understand the treatment sequence (including key treatment steps and goals)
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Access clinical tools to use the model
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To access and provide psychoeducation relevant to the person’s clinical presentation.
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Measure treatment adherence outcomes using standardised measures, including:
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Monitoring weight
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Eating disorder behaviour eg binge-purge frequency
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Eating disorder psychopathology with psychometric tools
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Pre requisite:
Completed 2 day training in CBT-E
Andrew Wallis presents a two day workshop on the use of Family Therapy for adolescents | Online, Friday 13th and Saturday 14th September 2024, 9am- 5pm AEST
Location: Via Zoom
Date: Friday 13th and Saturday 14th September 2024
Family Based Therapy (FBT) is an evidence-based eating disorder specific outpatient treatment first developed at the Maudsley Hospital in London in the 1980’s with further development in the USA (Stanford and Chicago) in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. A treatment manual was published in 2002 enabling FBT to be disseminated outside of these development sites. FBT is the current recommended first line treatment for adolescents with AN and first became available in Australia in 2003 at The Children’s Hospital, Westmead.
FBT integrates concepts from a number of family therapy models in a developmentally sensitive framework and holds the basic premise that parents are the best resource to help their child recover from anorexia nervosa. The treatment is organised around three treatment phases across 12 months. FBT commences with a focus on parental leadership of the young person’s nutritional recovery and finishes with a focus on adolescent issues. The treatment is suitable for adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa with a short course of illness.
Workshop Content
The aim of this workshop is to provide intensive practical training in the application of this model including:
- Theoretical background, framework and the role of the multidisciplinary team
- Detailed description of treatment phases, key sessions and the therapeutic process
- Discussion of clinical issues and processes to enable successful implementation
- Guided role plays to help develop participants micro skill development
Day 1 and 2 will cover all aspects of the model. The 4 online evening sessions will focus on clinical processes and problem solving within the model. At the completion of the workshop participants will have a good working knowledge of the model and will be able to consider using FBT in their clinical setting.
It is expected that clinicians attending will have –
- Professional training and skills in child and adolescent mental health care
- Knowledge and experience with adolescent eating disorders
- Previous experience working with families is an advantage
Presenters
Dr Andrew Wallis is a Clinical Social Worker and Family Therapist. He has been working with adolescents and their families for more than 25 years. He is currently Co-lead of the Eating Disorder Service at Sydney Children’s Hospital Network – a tertiary service in Sydney, Australia. In 2003 with colleagues at The Children’s Hospital, Westmead, he established the first Family-Based Therapy program in Australia, and Multiple Family therapy for Anorexia Nervosa in 2014. He has been providing training, consultation and supervision in Australia and New Zealand for more than 15 years, helping to support public and private services to implement family therapy approaches to adolescent problems. Andrew has also been involved in FBT research with more than 25 peer reviewed papers and book chapters including his PhD research on the impact of Family Based Therapy on family relationships.
Location: Via Zoom.
Time: 9am – 5pm on the Friday 13th and Saturday 14th September 2024
** 20 Person Limit **
Pricing:
- Regular: $891 ($800 + GST + TryBooking Processing Fee)
This workshop is credentialed for NEDC.
Psychologist and BodyMatters Director Sarah McMahon presents a one day workshop on Engaging Ambivalent Clients: Enhancing Motivation and Building Self-efficacy. | Zoom, Friday 18 October 2024 10AM to 5PM AEDT
Location: Via Zoom, Link to be provided prior to the event.
Date: Friday 18 October 2024
Pricing: $451 ($400 + GST + TryBooking Processing Fee)
About the Event:
Enhancing our client’s motivation to change and building their self-efficacy is absolutely paramount when it comes to treating people experiencing eating and body image issues- including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. This one day workshop for allied health practitioners provides an introduction to/ refresher of motivational interviewing with a specific application to eating disorders. In particular the workshop will emphasize how to work with clients in precontemplative, contemplative and determination/ preparation stages of change.
Learning objectives:
- Understand the transtheoretical stages of change with specific application to eating disorders
- Appreciate the key barriers to recovery for eating disorder sufferers
- Understand how to support clients to move through precontemplation, contemplation and preparation stages of change
- Understand how to build insight in people experiencing eating and body image issues
- Describe a novel treatment mechanism positing open expression = trust = social connectedness
- Increase motivation to change for people experiencing eating and body image issues
- Build self efficacy in people experiencing eating and body image issues
About the presenter:
Sarah McMahon
is the Director of BodyMatters Australasia, a Sydney based private practice with a particular interest in treating eating and body image issues. Sarah has worked in the field of eating disorders for approximately 15 years and has supported hundreds of individuals to achieve recovery. Sarah is well known for her compassionate and respectful approach to treatment as well as her ability to engage with clients in the early stages of change, supporting them through the recovery journey.
BodyMatters Training Cancellation Policy and Disclaimer
Title: Body Image Boot Camp: How to Improve Body Image in Our Clients (1 Day, Online) | 24 October 2024 – 10AM to 5PM AEDT
Location: Via Zoom
Date: Thursday 24 October, 2024
Time: 10AM to 5PM AEDT
Price: $451 ($400 + GST + TryBooking Processing Fee)
About the issue/ course:
Improving body image can be the most challenging element of working with clients recovering from disordered eating, particularly in this age of “normative discontent”. Often when our clients relationship with food is restored they continue to experience pervasive body shame. This workshop provides an abundance of practical skills to equip therapists to target body image concerns in clients.
Learning objectives:
- Understand the magnitude and impact of body image concerns
- Understand the extent to which our clients can make peace with their bodies
- Deconstruct the cultural landscape that breeds body image issues
- Understand how to use nuanced language to reduce body shame
- Identify clinical factors that perpetuate and maintain poor body image
- Implement CBT based exercises to improve client’s body image
Please note: this workshop is informed by the principles of health based paradigm as a framework for understanding body image concerns
Pricing: $451 ($400 + GST + TryBooking Processing Fee)
About the presenter:
Sar
ah McMahon is the Director of BodyMatters Australasia, a Sydney based private practice with a particular interest in treating eating and body image issues. Sarah has worked in the field of eating disorders for approximately 15 years and has supported hundreds of individuals to achieve recovery. Sarah is well known for her compassionate and respectful approach to treatment as well as her ability to engage with clients in the early stages of change, supporting them through the recovery journey.
Cancellation policy and disclaimer:
Please be aware of our cancellation policy and disclaimer, which is available here.
Title: Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM) nervosa
Date: Friday 01 November 2024
Time: 10AM to 5PM AEDT
Location: Via Zoom
Price: $451 ($400 + GST + TryBooking processing Fee)
This training has been approved by NEDC as meeting the requirement of Evidence-Based Treatment Model (SSCM) training as required for the ANZAED Eating Disorder Credential
About the Workshop:
Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM) was originally designed as a placebo comparative treatment in a clinical trial for the treatment of anorexia nervosa, and showed promising results. Since then SSCM has continued to be used, and shown to be a valid and effective treatment for anorexia nervosa. SSCM combines a range of tools including clinical management, psychoeducation and encouragement with a supportive therapeutic style, working collaboratively with clients to target specific eating disorder symptoms. The aim of the therapy is to empower clients to make a link between their symptoms, eating behaviour and weight, and to support them to gradually return to normal eating and weight.
About the presenter:
Sarah McMahon is the Director of BodyMatters Australasia, a sydney based private practice with a particular interest in treating eating and body image issues. Sarah has worked in the field of eating disorders for approximately 15 years and has supported hundreds of individuals to achieve recovery. Sarah is well known for her compassionate and respectful approach to treatment as well as her ability to engage with clients in the early stages of change, supporting them through the recovery journey.
Learning Outcomes:
- An understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM)
- To understand when SSCM is indicated and contraindicated
- To understand the target symptoms of SSCM
- Understand the three phase structure of SSCM
- Apply SSCM as a treatment for Anorexia Nervosa
