Working with obesity, food addiction and binge eating disorder (CPD)
07860 373 762
2nd March 2019, 10.00am - 4.00pm
Counsellors and trainees
£75 full price. £68 Earlybird before Jan 31st.
Islington Ecology Centre, 191 Drayton Park, London, N5 1PH
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
- To recognise addiction and its association to binge eating disorder
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
5-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
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