Eating Disorder training for Dietitians

These courses have been written with you - the Dietitian, wherever you are along your career stage - in mind. Drawing upon the most recent evidence (including the valuable evidence of those with lived experience), frameworks of care and National practice standards, my hope is that these courses will boost your confidence in feeling clear in what you have to offer along every stage of someone’s pathway.

We are committed to weight inclusivity and trauma-informed care, and this course will be firmly dedicated to upholding these principles from screening to treatment and beyond.

There are two primary offerings here:

Foundations of Eating Disorder Care for Dietitians - focussed on prevention, identification and early intervention (suitable for any Dietitian, comprises Part 1 of the ANZAED ED Credential)

Dietetic Skills Training for the Treatment of Eating Disorders - building on foundations, focussed on Dietetic treatment (suitable for Dietitians wanting to upskill in EDs and be able to engage people in treatment, comprises Part 2 of the ANZAED ED Credential)

**NEW** Foundations of Eating Disorders: Training for Dietitians (launched august 2024)

This foundational training is suitable for Dietitians at any stage of career, working across all sectors who are likely to encounter people at risk of, or who have, an eating disorder. In other words, that’s pretty much everyone! The content is focussed on the key opportunities to play our part in prevention, identification and early intervention and is aligned with the NEDC Stepped System of Care Framework.

If you are considering pursuing the ANZAED ED Credential (more information here), this course has been approved as meeting the NEDC Core Competencies and the ANZAED Practice Standards for “Introduction to Eating Disorders” and can be used towards your Credential in the future.

11 hours self-paced + 4 hours live online

Completing this course will leave you feeling more clear in understanding your role and scope of practice as a Dietitian in contributing to safe, high quality care to all people, in all bodies. You will also feel more confident about how to have important conversations which aim to link people into specialist services in a timely way that is best matched to their needs.

Part 1, the self-paced material, offers comprehensive content and opportunities to pause and reflect, and the live training will bring the material to life and focus on concrete skills to take into practice. See an outline of the modules below

Part 2, you'll join my co-host, highly experienced Dietitian Terrill Bruere and I for 4 hours of live online learning where we will bring the material you've covered so far to life with a deeper dive into assessments and key next steps including providing resources and suitable referral sources for treatment that are matched to what someone most needs.

Next live online training dates:

Monday February 10th, 2025 from 9am-1pm AEDT (for all registrations from Oct 11th 2024-Jan 30th 2025)

Once you sign up, you are welcome to dive into the self paced material. Please put the live online date in your calendar and we will be in touch with more information.

Fees:

AUD$255 + gst

The next date for live online training is Mon Feb 10th 2025 from 9am-1pm AEDT for all registrations until Jan 30th, 2025

Foundations Training PLUS Dietetic Treatment Training

Your hosts - Fiona Sutherland and Shane Jeffrey with guest contribtions by terrill bruere, anjanette casey, claire toohey and jodie sheraton

If you are considering pursuing the ANZAED ED Credential (more information here), this course has been approved as meeting the NEDC Core Competencies and the ANZAED Practice Standards for

Introduction to Eating Disorders

Evidence-Informed Dietetic Care

About the course:

This comprehensive course is equivalent to a 3-day training, and is designed to prepare you to work more safely, confidently and ethically with clients presenting with a range of disordered eating presentations, elevating your knowledge, insights and skills. We are committed to weight inclusivity and trauma-informed care, and this course will be firmly dedicated to upholding these principles from screening to treatment and beyond.

This course will be a combination of go-at-your-own-pace online recordings and recorded online live sessions where we will be getting into the more practical components.

Focussing more on the “how” and “why” rather than just the “what,” you will be provided with key learnings and opportunities to develop your skills within a supportive and reflective learning environment. At the end of this series, you can expect to leave feeling clear about a range of ways to navigate the inevitable challenges and complexities of working in this field, coupled with an ongoing curiosity to learn more from your valued colleagues and clients!

Please note that anyone, wherever you are in the world, is welcome to take this course. You will have the option of go-at-your-own pace learning AND attending the live sessions, OR doing the whole course yourself online. It’s up to you!

WHO IS THIS training SUITABLE FOR?

This series is primarily designed for Dietitians with more than two years of dietetic practice. If you are a Dietitian with less than two years of dietetic practice, you are very welcome to attend on the premise that you have completed all reading and allocated work prior to the workshop. If you are pursuing the ANZAED ED Credential, a pre-requisite is two years of practice experience.

You may have been seeing clients with clinical eating disorders for some time, and you are more than welcome too! This workshop is an inclusive, trauma-informed, very comprehensive and practical dive into dietetic care and may act as a very suitable review or update of existing skills and understandings.

There are more commonalities than differences with Eating Disorder care worldwide, and we have designed this course to be suitable for, and thoughtful about the needs of, as many Dietitians as possible wherever you are in the world. Please do reach out if you have any questions, and see other course options below to get a good idea of whether this will be suitable for you

This training will take you at least 25 hours to complete

YOU CAN EXPECT TO LEAVE WITH A THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING OF:

• The role of the Dietitian in ED care, including scope of practice

• Inclusive, thoughtful Dietetic screening and assessment

• Working thoughtfully with diverse groups of people

• Evidence based practice AND practice-based evidence

• Optimising inclusivity in Eating Disorder spaces - what’s your role?

• “Where do I start?” - setting up your Dietetic care with a solid foundation

• Communication skills, working & collaborating with a health team

• Trauma-informed Dietetic practice - developing awareness

• Specific counselling skills and modalities that are essential in ED work

• Inter-personal processes that are critical to the work we do

• Aligning your practice with stages of change

• Pacing & flow of sessions over time, setting expectations and boundaries

• Medical monitoring & tracking of client progress

• Working with adolescents, families, adults

• “What do I say when….” troubleshooting

• Cases to bring presentations to life, and offers more realistic opportunities to learn.

• How to address uncertainty, fear and anxiety effectively instead of going into “Dietitian fixing” mode

• Understanding our own stuck-points and what gets in the way for us doing this work

• The importance of Supervision and ongoing support for Dietitians

The sequence of the learning will be

Pre-Recorded Online Modules: Go at your own pace online, approximately 15 hours

Recorded Live Training (2022): Total 15 hours

Total - approximately 30 hours of training

Course Fees:

AUD $550 (+GST) for Australians

AUD $550 (no tax) for non US and non Australians

USD $425 (no tax) for US and anyone who wishes to pay in USD

Accessibility and equity is important to us. Equity pricing available for Dietitians from marginalised communities and low income countries. Please contact me directly at themindfuldietitian@gmail.com for more details.

FAQ’s

When will this course be open for registration?

This course is open for registration at any time, as of the end of March 2023, all modules are now self-paced.

I am not applying for the ANZAED Credential but am interested in this course - is that ok?

YES, absolutely. This course will be open to anyone who would like to do the training from any country.

is this course suitable if i am not australian?

Yes, a vast majority of this content would be internationally applicable. Another course I highly recommend if you’re looking for options is Marci Evans Counselling Skills for Eating Disorders