Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (CBT-AR)

                                                                                                       

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (CBT-AR)

Description

This 8-hour didactic course will be taught by Jennifer J. Thomas, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Kamryn T. Eddy, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School on June 12-13, 2024 from noon-4pm ET via Zoom. 

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) was recently added to the Feeding and Eating Disorders section of DSM-5 to describe children, adolescents, and adults who cannot meet their nutritional needs, typically due sensory sensitivity, fear of aversive consequences, and/or apparent lack of interest in eating or food. Research on the efficacy of novel treatments is ongoing. One such novel treatment—cognitive-behavioral therapy for ARFID (CBT-AR)—has shown evidence of preliminary efficacy in three open trials and is currently being investigated in a randomized controlled trial funded by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health. 

This training (over two sessions of four hours each) will cover the assessment of ARFID and determining patient appropriateness of CBT-AR, as well as the implementation of all four stages of this flexible, modular treatment, for individuals with ARFID ages 10 and up. Material will be drawn from our book Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: Children, Adolescents, and Adults (Cambridge University Press, 2019), cases we have seen in our clinical practice, and our ongoing research studies on the neurobiology, treatment, and longitudinal course of ARFID. Our interactive presentation will include a brief description of the rationale for and goals of CBT-AR; detailed case examples drawn from a heterogeneous group of patients who have benefitted from CBT-R; critical choice points for tailoring CBT-AR to the presenting patient; and multiple role-play demonstrations. We welcome audience members to come with questions about specific cases from their own clinical practice, and we will leave ample time for discussion at the workshop’s conclusion.

Audience
All are welcome to participate in the didactic portion of this course offering - professionals, students, researchers, clinicians, and experts by experience. 

Date/Time
June 12-13, 2024, noon-4pm ET via Zoom


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About OUR COURSE PRESENTERS


Dr. Jennifer Thomas is the Co-director of the Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Thomas’s research focuses on avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder and other atypical eating disorders, as described in her four books — most recently Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: Children, Adolescents, and Adults and The Picky Eater’s Recovery Book: Overcoming Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. She is principal investigator on several studies investigating the neurobiology and treatment of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, funded by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and private foundations.  She is the author or co-author of more than 180 scientific publications, has served as President of the Academy for Eating Disorders and Associate Editor for the International Journal of Eating Disorders, and is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders.


Dr. Kamryn Eddy is the Co-Director of the Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her research, funded through the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, has documented the longitudinal course and outcome of eating disorders over 20+ years and described the neurobiological bases of these complex illnesses. Her current work builds on the mechanistic findings by testing novel cognitive-behavioral and endocrine therapies that target these biobehavioral mechanisms in order to improve and expedite good outcomes. She is co-creator of cognitive-behavioral therapy for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, described in her books Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: Children, Adolescents, and Adults, and The Picky Eater’s Recovery Book, and she has written more than 180 scientific publications. She is a Past President of the Eating Disorders Research Society and a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders. 

Course Pricing

Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3
Member $399 $219 $75
Non-Member $499 $279 $90
Student/ Post-Bac Member $199 $99 $40
Student/Post-Bac Non-Member $299 $149 $60

ADD-ON OPTION: Participate in the CBT-AR Learning Collaborative (Registration Limited) 

Following the didactic course, our course presenters will host a 12-sesion CBT-AR Learning Collaborative (meeting every other week for 6 months). Learning Collaborative participants will have the opportunity to receive consultation on ongoing clinical cases (i.e. patients who are receiving CBT-AR) and to ask questions of the presenters and other attendees. To deepen their learning, Learning Collaborative participants will submit brief consultation reports to the Learning Collaborative team, including an update on therapy adherence, patient progress, and future treatment plan. The Learning Collaborative is a special opportunity for licensed professionals from any country who have a clear plan for putting CBT-AR into immediate practice. Certificates of completion will be issued at the conclusion of the Learning Collaborative for those who attend >80% of the sessions and participate actively with case presentations.  

Audience
Licensed professionals from any country who have a clear plan for putting CBT-AR into immediate practice.

Prerequisites
To ensure all learners start on the same page, attending the didactic workshop is a pre-requisite for participation. AED learning collaboratives are considered educational consultation and explicitly not supervision.  Our consultants provide educational opinions on cases. Clinician’s institutions do the billing and use their own (or their institution’s) malpractice insurance.  Thus, all participants in the learning collaborative must be licensed clinicians with active malpractice insurance. Unlicensed trainee therapists will be considered on a case-by-case basis if the trainee is working under the license and malpractice insurance of an outside supervisor who accepts liability for the trainee’s cases.

Date/Time
12 sessions meeting every other Tuesday from 12-1pm ET for 6 months.

Application Process

To preserve the individual attention provided in the Learning Collaborative, attendance will be limited to 12 participants each. Applications will be reviewed and those eligible to participate in the course will be sent information to register on a first-come, first-served basis. Depending on the number of applications received, AED may offer more than one CBT-AR Learning Collaborative to accommodate all interested candidates who meet the criteria of being licensed professionals with the intention to put the therapy into immediate practice. 


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Learning collaborative add-on Pricing

Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3
Member $399 $219 $75
Non-Member $499 $279 $90
Student/ Post-Bac Member $199 $99 $40
Student/Post-Bac Non-Member $299 $149 $60