Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders - Presented by Dr Susan Simpson

Overview

This training will provide an opportunity to learn powerful

techniques for working with people with eating disorders including

those with high complexity & comorbidity (e.g. OCD, rigid

personality traits, PTSD). This workshop will provide training in

implementing techniques for working with entrenched early

maladaptive schemas (including core beliefs) with individuals with

eating disorders and comorbidity.

guilt-inducing

The workshop will provide participants with practical experience

and guidance in the use of imagery, chair work & other techniques

for change. Videos and live demonstrations will be used to illustrate

experiential change techniques. Training will specifically include

working with vulnerable [child] modes, limited reparenting skills,

bypassing avoidant or overcompensatory coping modes, and

fighting punitive (self-critical) or thinking patterns that

drive eating disorder behaviours.

About the presenter

Dr. Susan Simpson is a Clinical Psychologist with specialist

expertise in the treatment of severe and complex eating disorders.

She has 20 years of experience using Schema Therapy with

complex comorbidity, including eating disorders, OCD, personality

disorders and PTSD. Susan is part of an international research group

which is investigating the effectiveness of Schema Therapy for

eating disorders. She has published several book chapters and

journal articles on schema therapy, with a particular focus on the

eating disorder population. In addition, she has presented at

national and international eating disorders conferences and has

provided several workshops on Schema Therapy for Eating

Disorders across the world. Susan is co-author/editor of

the book ‘Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders’, Routledge,

2019. A full list of her publications can be found

at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan_Simpson/publications.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will learn the following:

• How to recognise & work with schema modes relevant to people with eating disorders.
• How to conceptualise clients’ eating disorder symptoms & comorbidities using a schema mode map.
• How to apply cognitive, experiential, and interpersonal strategies for change, including chairwork & Imagery.
• Rescripting, with an emphasis on deeper level change with core beliefs/schemas.

Pre-reading

• Simpson, S. & Smith, E. (Eds.) (2019). Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders: Theory and Practice for Individual and Group Settings. Routledge.
• To familiarise yourself with the schema therapy mode model before the training, participants will be sent the chapter (‘Schemas, Modes Summary', Ch 2 Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Schema Therapy) which provides a good overview of the Schema Therapy Mode Model.
• Participants will also be sent a chapter on the topic of schema therapy for eating disorders from the Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Schema Therapy, and a brief Schema Therapy Clients Guide.

Online activities to be completed prior to the event

For those new to the Schema Mode Model, it is advised that you

watch this 2-hour webinar (

give you preliminary information that will provide a good base for

you to learn about schema therapy for eating disorders.

Additional event details

• Training will be delivered via Zoom, and run on September 14, 15 & 16 and begin each day at 5:30pm and conclude at 9.30pm AEST.

• Successful completion of Inside Out Institute’s Eating Disorders Essentials Training (https://insideoutinstitute.org.au/resource-library/the-essentials-training-clinicians-in-eating-disorders) or equivalent is a minimum required pre-requisite.
• A discount is available for students. Please email [email protected] with proof of a valid student ID to receive the discount code.

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