How Schools can Approach Eating Disorders.
Date: June 17, 2022
In this webinar, Helen Amrein, Specialist Eating Disorder Clinician, talks on how schools can approach eating disorders.
Key topics:
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Overview of the spectrum of disordered eating.
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Common eating disorders.
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Body image and how to have conversations with young people.
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When to refer on
Followed by a Q&A session
Resources
Links:
Centre for clinical interventions
Resources for consumers and healthcare professionals using evidence based models to assist in providing interventions for mental health problems such as depression, bipolar, social anxiety, panic, self-esteem, procrastination, perfectionism, and eating disorders.
https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself/Disordered-Eating
Media Smart
Media Smart provides free teaching resources and parent guides on subjects like social media, body image and influencer marketing.
The Body Project
The Body project is a group therapy body acceptance intervention that was designed to help adolescent girls and young women resist sociocultural pressures to conform to the thin-ideal and reduce their pursuit if thinness.
The most researched and evidence based program to date.
http://www.bodyprojectsupport.org/
FREED
First episode and Rapid Early intervention for Eating Disorders (FREED)
The GoodSpace Schools resources is provided to support schools implementing wellbeing programmes in intermediate and secondary schools.
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