Eating disorders can significantly impact the psychosocial functioning and physical health of adolescents. Early and effective treatment is crucial to prevent long-lasting and potentially devastating adverse effects.  The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for eating disorders in adolescents when family therapy is unacceptable, contraindicated, or ineffective. This recommendation was primarily based on the review of promising results from the enhanced version of CBT (CBT-E) adapted for adolescents with eating disorders aged between 12 and 19 years. A non-randomized effectiveness trial has also shown that CBT-E achieved a similar outcome of FBT at 6- and 12-month. 

This interactive training (over two sessions of four hours each) will cover the assessment and strategies to actively engage the adolescent in treatment, involve the parents as “helpers” of their child, as well as a detailed description of all three Steps of the CBT-E for adolescents, and data on its effectiveness.

 

Numerous clinical vignettes will illustrate the material presented that will be drawn from the real-world clinical experience of the author and the manuals for therapists (Cognitive behavior therapy for adolescents with eating disorders, Guilford Press, 2020), patients (A young person’s guide to cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders. Routledge, 2024), and parents (Cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders in young people: A parents' guide. Routledge, 2022).