Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT-E) for Adolescents with Eating Disorders

                                                                                                       

Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT-E) for Adolescents with Eating Disorders

Description

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). 

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

Date/Time
April 9-10, 2025, 8:30am-12:30pm ET via Zoom*

*This didactic training is geared towards live participation and will not be recorded.

**The didactic portion of this training does not offer any certifications.


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About OUR COURSE PRESENTERS


Dr. Riccardo Dalle Grave is the director of the Department of Eating and Weight Disorders at Villa Garda Hospital (Garda, VR, Italy). In this department, he developed an original treatment for the eating disorder based entirely on enhanced cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E), the adaptation of outpatient CBT-E for adolescents with eating disorders, which is recommended by the NICE guidelines. Currently, the focus of his research is evaluating the cognitive behavior therapy of adult and adolescent patients with eating disorders both in outpatient and intensive settings. 

He is the director of the master course for health professionals' 1° Certificate in Eating Disorder and Obesity'. He also teaches at several Italian psychotherapy schools and supervises teams in Europe, the US, Australia, and Middles West. 

He is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals, a fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorder (AED), a member of the European Chapter AED board, and the Associazione Italiana Disturbi dell'Alimentazione e del Peso (AIDAP), and editor of the CBT-E website (www.cbte.co). 

He is the author of 185 peer-reviewed articles, several book chapters, and books, including the three recent books "Cognitive behavior therapy for adolescents with eating disorders (Guilford Press, 2020)", "Cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders in young people: A parents' guide" (Routledge, 2022), and “A young person’s guide to cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders (Routledge, 2024).

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-E Learning Collaborative (Registration Limited) 

Following the didactic course, our course presenters will host a 12-sesion CBT-E 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-E) 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-E 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-E 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 week on Tuesdays at 12pm 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-E 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