Workshop ‘Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders’

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ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP

Schema Therapy is an innovative transdiagnostic treatment model that is ideally suited to the treatment of eating disorders, and is well equipped to address the rigidly held belief systems, characterological traits, affective instability, trauma-based symptomatology and comorbidities that have been shown to interfere with clinical outcomes in eating disorders (Kelland, 2015; Segura-Garcia et al., 2013; Wilson et al., 2007).

Schema Therapy has demonstrated promising preliminary findings for eating disorders (Simpson et al., 2010; Simpson & Slowey, 2011), including one randomised controlled trial (McIntosh et al., 2016). Further, robust RCT evidence indicates its effectiveness in the treatment of disorders that are frequently comorbid with eating disorders, and which appear to interfere with the effectiveness of first-line treatments, including borderline, cluster c, and narcissistic PDs, chronic depression, and complex trauma (for reviews of the evidence see: Bakos et al., 2015; Hawke Provencher, 2011; Hopwood Thomas, 2014; Jacob & Arntz, 2013; Masley et al., 2012; Pugh, 2015; Roediger Zarbock, 2015; Sempertegui et al., 2013; Taylor et al., 2017).

The workshop will provide therapists with an opportunity to learn powerful techniques for working with eating disorders, including those with entrenched beliefs, high complexity and comorbidity (e.g. OCD, rigid personality traits, PTSD). Anyone interested in learning to apply
the schema therapy mode work to assist people with eating disorders would benefit from this workshop. The workshop will provide participants with practical experience and guidance in the use of innovative versions of imagery, chair work and other techniques for
change. Videos and demonstrations will be used to illustrate experiential change techniques. Training will specifically include working with vulnerable [child] modes, limited reparenting skills, bypassing avoidant or inverted coping modes, and fighting punitive (self-critical) or guilt inducing thinking patterns that drive eating disorder behaviours. Participants will receive handouts that they can use in their clinical work.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of this 2-days workshop you will have learned:

  • Methods to formulate complex eating disorder thoughts, behaviours, urges, & comorbid disorders using schema ‘modes’
  • Attunement for ‘joining the dots’ between body sensations-emotions-needs with clients who have interoceptive difficulties 
  • Imagery & chair-work to set limits on self-defeating ’inner critic’ modes
  • Recognise & learn to work with common coping modes in Eating Disorders including: Overcontroller modes, and Helpless Surrenderer modes
  • Empathic confrontation & chair-work to bypass strong coping modes
  • Working with clients who are reluctant to participate in experiential work & to connect with emotions.
  • Methods to access vulnerability & distress in eating disorders in order to enhance healing.
  • Enhancing client’s Healthy Adult mode in treatment.
  • The latest evidence-base for Schema Therapy with Eating Disorders & common comorbidities

PRESENTER

Dr. Susan Simpson is a Clinical Psychologist who has specialised in Schema Therapy for complex eating disorders over the past 20 years. She currently works in an NHS outpatient eating disorders unit in Scotland. She also runs the only ISST-accredited Schema Therapy training program in Scotland. She regularly runs Schema Therapy workshops through Schema Therapy Scotland and Schema Therapy Training Australia. She is part of an international research group which is currently investigating the effectiveness of Schema Therapy for eating disorders. She has published several research papers on the schema therapy model applied to a range of clinical populations, and has presented her findings at national and international conferences. She is currently co-authoring the first book on Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders, which will be published by Routledge in 2020.  A full list of her publications can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan_Simpson/publications

DATA, KOSTEN EN INSCHRIJVING

  • This workshop cost €550 which includes the syllabus, materials used in the workshop which will be made available on the website and a lunch on site. Books and audiovisual means are not included in this price. You will receive an invoice around 2 months before the actual start of the workshop.
  • Inschrijven You can register here.

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