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Seeking Child/Adolescent Eating Disorder Therapists to Pilot Test a New Measure

  • 1.  Seeking Child/Adolescent Eating Disorder Therapists to Pilot Test a New Measure

    Posted 17 days ago

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    Are you a clinician treating child and adolescent eating disorders using any form of family-based treatment or family therapy? We are enrolling clinicians to pilot test our new assessment measure, the Care-FIT, with 1-3 caregivers in your practice. This involves completing the clinician-rated version, and having the caregiver(s) complete the self-report, on one occasion. Time to complete is 5-10 minutes per measure, which can be completed online or in hard copy format, as you prefer. For more information and to participate, please email smccord@myune.edu.au.

    Summary: Our research team at UNE have developed a new assessment measure, Caregiver Factors Influencing Treatment of child and adolescent eating disorders (Care-FIT). It aims to identify challenges or strengths which may influence parents and caregivers' ability to participate in eating disorder treatment for the young person they support. 

    We are now pilot testing the Care-FIT Inventory with eating disorder therapists. We will compare the clinician-rated version to the caregiver self-report version, with qualitative feedback also collected on the acceptability and utility of the inventory. We are enrolling clinicians who provide family eating disorder treatment to children and adolescents. Participation involves the clinician and the caregiver completing the respective Care-FIT version on one occasion. The Care-FIT may be completed online via Qualtrics, or by printing a PDF version should clinicians find it easier with the caregiver. We invite participating clinicians to choose 1-3 adult caregivers in their service. There is no involvement of the young person, and no identifying information about the caregiver is collected.



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    Alex McCord
    Psychologist
    NSW Health
    TINTENBAR NSW
    +61499505015
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