Empowering Families
Workshop Contents
Workshops 1-7
- Shared understanding of Empowering Families
- Shared understanding of eating disorders
- Risk and maintaining factors
- Emotional processing and EDs
- Personality and EDs
- Understanding the sufferers experience; why is change so hard?
- How carers can cope with eating disorders
- The ED brain & consequences of insufficient nutrition
- Animal models of caring (Treasure et al 2007)
- The reassurance trap
- Advanced communication skills: Reflective listening skills, Questioning and summarising skills
- The Stages of Change model: Communication in each stage of change, What hinders change?
- Understanding and modifying challenging behaviour
- Using Motivational Interviewing to increase commitment to change
- Planning and goal setting
- Praise and affirmations
- Accommodating and enabling
- Managing problem eating
- Managing other challenging behaviours inc. OCD
- Dealing with conflict
- Supporting maintenance
- Dealing with relapse
Workshop 8
- Discussion of last month's practice
- Review sessions 1-7
- Moving forward
In some areas, a 2-hour preliminary session called 'Understanding Eating Disorders' is available for people who have little to no knowledge of eating disorders, and would like to learn about the basics before starting the workshops. Please check with your local facilitator.
Preliminary session
- What is an eating disorder?
- Eating disorder signs and symptoms (AN,BN, BED, EDNOS)
- Possible causes of EDs & introduction to maintaining factors
- Conditions commonly found alongside EDs
- How carers can help
- Treatment options
- Recovery
- Empowering Families Workshops
Additional Information and resource pack
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