Post-Conference Workshops: Monday 15 August 2022
Registration rates for post-conference workshops can be found here. During the registration process you will have the opportunity to select the workshop you wish to attend, these workshops will take place concurrently on Monday.
1. Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM). Presenter: Dr Jennifer Jordan
2. ​​Body Project Eating Disorder Treatment Training. Presenter: Eric Stice
​Workshop 1: Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM) 
Presenter: Dr Jennifer Jordan, University of Otago, Christchurch & Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, New Zealand
Time: 9.00am - 4.00pm AEST (1-Day Training)
Workshop Overview: Specialist supportive clinical management (SSCM) was originally developed as an active non-specific comparison treatment for cognitive-behavioural therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy in the Christchurch Anorexia Nervosa Treatment Study, an outpatient trial for anorexia nervosa.

SSCM is a pragmatic approach which draws on well-established principles for the treatment of eating disorders. It includes a clinical management component, prioritising the establishment of normal eating and weight restoration and provides psycho-education and advice about anorexia nervosa, eating, and weight. As well as the symptom focus, SSCM uses a supportive psychotherapy framework to respond to any other life issues identified by the client. SSCM is now included in treatment guidelines for adults with anorexia nervosa, and is increasingly offered alongside other evidenced-based therapies in clinical services for eating disorders.
 
This 1-day workshop includes:
  • A review of SSCM in our trial and subsequent independent applications of SSCM
  • Presentation of key components of SSCM, including common and distinct features
  • Practice of key SSCM strategies
  • Discussion of the place of SSCM
 
At the conclusion of this training, it is expected that clinicians will be able to implement SSCM in their practice settings with ongoing SSCM supervision
Jenny Jordan is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Otago, Christchurch, NZ and also works as a clinical psychologist for the Canterbury District Health Board. She has been involved in a series of randomised clinical trials comparing different psychological treatments for eating and mood disorders as well as other clinically focused research.  She was an investigator and therapist on the Christchurch Anorexia Nervosa Treatment study and with Virginia McIntosh, was involved in developing SSCM. They have published chapters and papers describing SSCM and have delivered numerous training workshops within Australasia and internationally. 

​Workshop 2: Body Project Eating Disorder Treatment Training
Presenter: Eric Stice, Ph.D., Stanford University
Time: 9.00am - 4.00pm AEST (1-Day Training)
Workshop Overview: This workshop will train clinicians in the delivery of a dissonance-based transdiagnostic eating disorder treatment (Body Project Treatment; BPT). This outpatient treatment for the full spectrum of people with any eating disorder is delivered in 8 1-hour group sessions because it is more cost-effective than current evidence-based treatments that are delivered in 20 individual psychotherapy sessions; it is only 1/20th the cost of current evidence-based treatments. BPT produced greater reductions in eating disorder symptoms and abstinence from binge eating and compensatory weight control behaviors than usual care and alternative treatments in four randomized controlled trials. It produced a higher abstinence rate from binge eating and compensatory behaviors than achieved by other transdiagnostic treatments. BPT also produced greater reductions in brain reward region response to thin models and binge foods than observed in controls, which are the intervention targets. To our knowledge, other transdiagnostic treatments have not been shown to reduce objective biological measures the relevant intervention targets. In BPT participants engage in verbal, written, and behavioral exercises in which they collectively explore costs of pursuing the thin appearance ideal, dieting, compensatory behaviors, and binge eating. The theoretical rationale for dissonance-based interventions and the evidence-base will be reviewed, and the rationale for each component will be presented. We will conduct a mock BPT sessions with trainees in which 2 will practice implementing this intervention to a cohort of 6 additional trainees. Live supervision/feedback will be provided. Finally, we will discuss the logistics of offering BPT to various types of clients. 
  
Learning Objectives:
  1. Participants will be able to articulate the theoretical rational for the BPT and the use of dissonance-induction for health promotion.
  2. Participants will be able to facilitate BPT groups on their own after the training.
  3. Participants will gain knowledge about how to offer BPT to their cliental.​
Dr. Eric Stice is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. His research focuses on identifying risk factors that predict onset of eating disorders, obesity, substance abuse, and depression to advance knowledge regarding processes that contribute to emergence of these problems. He also designs, evaluates, and disseminates prevention and treatment interventions for eating disorders, obesity, and depression. For instance, he developed a dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program that has been implemented with over 6 million young girls in 140 countries through a partnership with Dove.