Working therapeutically with obesity - looking at food addiction and binge eating disorder

Aims and objectives:

• To gain an understanding of a therapeutic treatment for obesity incorporating the biopsychosociospiritual 12-step model.
• To gain an understanding of how to integrate this model of treatment into your own practice.

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 it’s use during and after therapeutic treatment.
• Integration.
• Thought for the day.

Five hour CPD certificates issued.

Suitable for:

• Counsellors
• Nurses
• Psychotherapists
• Trainees
• Psychologists
• Students
• Dieticians
• Occupational therapists
• Nutritionists
• Teachers
• Psychiatrists
• Youth workers
• Family therapists
• Personal trainers
• General practitioners
• Social workers

Full price £75 per person per workshop (see details of other workshop in events section for November)

Earlybird discount:

CPD one - understanding anorexia and bulimia. How can we support and work with sufferers - Sat Nov 3rd - £68 paid before September 22nd

CPD two - working therapeutically with obesity, looking at food addiction and binge eating disorder - Sat Dec 1st - £68 paid before October 20th

£125 for both workshops booked together before September 22nd.