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Eating Disorder Essentials for Dietitians - BRISBANE


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EATING DISORDER ESSENTIALS: A WORKSHOP FOR DIETITIANS

Your hosts: Fiona Sutherland (The Mindful Dietitian) & Shane Jeffrey (River Oak Health)

EARLY BIRD RATES AVAILABLE UNTIL DEC 31ST, 2019

This 2-day workshop is designed to prepare you to work more confidently and ethically with clients presenting with a range of disordered eating presentations, elevating your knowledge, insights and skills. Focussing more on the “how” and “why” rather than just the “what,” you will be provided with key learnings, live demonstrations, and opportunities to practice and further develop your skills within a supportive and reflective learning environment. At the end of the workshop, 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!

Who is this workshop suitable for?

This 2-day workshop 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 prior to the workshop

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


You can expect to leave with a thorough understanding of:

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

  • Essentials of Dietetic screening and assessment

  • Aligning your counselling skills with stages of change

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

  • Communication skills, working & collaborating with a health team

  • Medical monitoring & tracking of client progress

  • “What do I say when….” troubleshooting guide

  • Intro to common intersecting presentations eg. gut conditions, PCOS, DM

  • How, when & why to bring topics such as body image and weight stigma into the conversation

  • Supervision essentials for Dietitians

More about your hosts Fiona Sutherland & Shane Jeffrey

 

REGISTRATION DETAILS:

EARLY BIRD (until Dec 31st) $495 (ANZAED members), $545 Non Members

REGULAR (from 1st Jan) $545 ANZAED Members, $595 Non Members