Enhanced Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E) for Adults with Eating Disorders

                                                                                                       

Enhanced Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E) for Adults with Eating Disorders

Description

CBT-ED is widely recommended by evidence-based guidelines as the first-line treatment for bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), and other specified feeding and eating disorders (OSFED). It is considered the preferred treatment for these disorders when significant weight regain is not required. For individuals who do require significant weight regain, CBT-ED is one of several treatment options. Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E), a form of CBT-ED, is a transdiagnostic treatment for eating disorders that addresses the core psychological factors maintaining the disorder within a structured yet flexible framework. This flexibility allows CBT-E to be personalized to match each individual’s needs and unique presentation while maintaining fidelity to the evidence base.

This 8-hour training, split into two four-hour sessions, provides a brief overview of the main treatment interventions and updates on therapeutic concepts from the treatment guide Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders. We will emphasize the flexibility of CBT-E and its ability to be personalized to meet individual needs by highlighting best practices for implementing CBT-E interventions across a wide diversity of patients including individuals of all genders, those with larger bodies, those with co-existing conditions and individuals with low-income.

The workshop will include a brief description of the rationale and goals of CBT-E, multiple role-play demonstrations and time for discussion and questions. We will focus on tailoring CBT-E to individual patients and provide practical strategies for overcoming common challenges and obstacles in treatment.  

This training is ideal for clinicians seeking to enhance their skills in treating adults with eating disorders using a well-researched and effective therapeutic approach.

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

Date/Time
February 6-7, 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


Zafra Cooper is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford and an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University. During her tenure at Oxford, she co-directed the Centre for Research on Eating Disorders (CREDO) and the Centre for Research on the Dissemination of Evidence-based Treatments, both funded by the Wellcome Trust. These centers focused on various aspects of eating disorders, including their treatment, diagnosis, classification, and dissemination.

Zafra was a leading developer of enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-E) and the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE). Her current research aims to improve interventions for eating disorders that co-occur with other conditions and to make treatments and provider training more accessible. She has published widely in the field of eating disorders. In recognition of her contribution, she was awarded the Academy for Eating Disorders' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023.




Suzanne Bailey-Straebler is the clinical director of the Center for Eating Disorders Partial Hospital Program and Outpatient Specialty Clinic at Weill Cornell Medicine – New York Presbyterian Hospital and Research Associate in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is a lead trainer for the CBT-E training group and has trained and supervised therapists around the world. For over a decade Suzanne was a Senior Research Clinician at the Centre for Research on Eating Disorders at Oxford (CREDO) headed by Professors Christopher Fairburn and Zafra Cooper. While there, she received extensive clinical training, was a contributing author to the CBT-E treatment guide, assisted in the creation of a web-based CBT-E training program, and completed her doctoral thesis on improving therapist training in evidence-based treatments. She is co-author of the treatment guide Group Cognitive Behavior Therapy 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-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 Mondays 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