Eating Disorder Resource Centre of Ireland
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MODULE 1 OF 8
OBJECTIVES OF MODULE 1
• To Show the importance of increasing your own self awareness
• To present an opportunity to understand eating disorders and their effects
• To learn how beliefs, thoughts, and attitudes influence eating patterns
• To show the importance of motivational interviewing and rapport in the treatment of eating
disorders.
• To learn the a-z of motivational interviewing.
• To learn how to assess, diagnose and elicit a treatment programme.
DAY 1 - SEMINAR STYLE PROGRAMME
Registration meet and greet ...
INTRODUCTION TO EATING DISORDERS
1. Definition of an Eating Disorder.
2. Descriptions of the main categories - Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder or
Compulsive Overeating, Obesity, Night Eating Syndrome, Night Eating and Drinking
Syndrome, and Orthorexia.
3. Normal Eating Vs Abnormal Eating.
4.The effects of eating disorders on a mental, emotional, physical and spiritual level.
5.The physiology of hunger and appetite.
6.The food/mood connection.
DAY 1 - WORKSHOP STYLE PROGRAMME
1. Practical analysis of your own eating world
2. Exercises to enhance self awareness of food, body and weight issues.
DAY 2 - SEMINAR STYLE PROGRAMME
INTRODUCTION TO EATING DISORDERS (contd)
1.The Psychology of Dieting (Ancel Keys Experiment)
2.Who Develops an Eating Disorder ?
3.The 3 P’s of Eating Disorders... factors which foster a vulnerability to ed’s
Precipitating Factors, predisposing Factors, and perpetuating factors.
4. The growth of dieting as a natural obsession due to changes in body
Standards.
5. The importance of weight in relation to self image / body image.
THE INITIAL INTERVIEW
1. How to elicit a structured history from the client (motivational interviewing).
2. How to assess, diagnose and develop a treatment programme based on the clients unique
and specific needs (lifeline).
DAY 2 -WORKSHOP STYLE PROGRAMME
Delegates role play an initial interview where each delegate gets to play a therapist and elicits
information to assess, diagnose, and subsequently develop a treatment programme.
Here delegates take a structured history in order to establish an inner feel of
the clients world (through motivational interviewing).
This information helps the therapist to ...
- Identify the nature of the clients relationship with self, body, food, others.
- Create a therapeutic alliance in order to enhance rapport.
- De-mystify the clients perception of life events and eating disorders.
- Form realistic outcomes and goals within the treatment paradigm.