CPD - working therapeutically with obesity and associated destructive eating behaviours

About this event

 Aims and objectives:

• To gain an understanding of a therapeutic treatment for obesity.
• To gain an understanding of the principles of the 12-step model and how it is applied for working with compulsive overeating and other eating disorders.
• To recognise addiction and its association to destructive eating behaviours.
• To explore ways of integrating this model into your own mode of therapy.

  Contents:

• What research has demonstrated.
• Comparison between compulsive overeating/bingeing and DSM-V substance dependence criteria.
• Cycle of addiction.
• What is binge eating disorder?
• Addictive behaviours often connected to compulsive overeating.
• Difference between group therapy and 12-step groups.
• Family/personal history.
• The solution.
• Interactive group workshop.
• Abstinence – what is it?
• Introduction and overview of the 12-step model and its use during and after therapeutic treatment.
• Integration.
• Thought for the Day.