Family Services North Shore

Site Title

Centre for Clinical Interventions – Psychotherapy, Research, Training (Aus.)

URL

 http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/about/index.cfm

ED Related Page(s)

Consumer Resource Section

 http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/resources/consumers.cfm

Overcoming Disordered Eating - Part A

Overcoming Disordered Eating - Part B

Publication Year

2007

Content Description:

The Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) is a specialist state-wide program that is administered through North Metropolitan Health Services in Western Australia. We conduct clinically applied psychosocial research and provide training and supervision for various psychological interventions. We also offer a clinical service for adults suffering from anxiety, mood and eating disorders.

CCI has developed a number of resources including “Overcoming Disordered Eating, “ a resource designed to provide information, strategies and techniques to change thinking patterns associated with disordered eating. It is organised into modules that are designed to be worked through in sequence, each including information, worksheets and suggested exercise or activities.

Consumer Resource Section

 http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/resources/consumers.cfm

Overcoming Disordered Eating - Part A

This information package is designed to provide you with some information about disordered eating - how it develops, how it is maintained, and strategies to start to change the problem behaviours associated with disordered eating.

Overcoming Disordered Eating – Part A

Modules:

• Module 1: What is an Eating Disorder?
  This module provides an overview of what eating disorders are, their impact, and the role of dieting and healthy weight.

• Module 2: How Ready am I to Change?
  This module explores preparedness to change disordered eating behaviours, and also outlines some of the treatment options for eating disorders.
• Module 3: How Eating Disorders are Maintained
  This module outlines some of the factors which maintain disordered eating and create a vicious cycle.
• Module 4: Self Monitoring
  This module explains the importance of self-monitoring of eating behaviours, and provides a food log worksheet.
• Module 5: Regular Eating and Weighing
  This module provides a rationale for regular eating and weighing, along with guidelines and worksheets.
• Module 6: Binge Eating, Purging & Driven Exercise
  This module explains the role of binge eating, purging, and driven exercise, and how these behaviours maintain disordered eating in a vicious cycle.
• Module 7: Moods and Disordered Eating
  This module explores the way emotions and difficulty handling moods can affect disordered eating behaviours, along with strategies to manage moods.
• Module 8: Dietary Rules
  This module explores the role of dietary restriction and rules in maintaining disordered eating, along with guidelines for normal eating.
• Module 9: Addressing Dietary Rules
  This module builds on Module 8 and provides more strategies to overcome strict dietary rules.
• Module 10: Progress Review
  This module helps you to review your progress through the whole 10 modules and to summarise what you have learnt so far.

Overcoming Disordered Eating – Part B

Overcoming Disordered Eating - Part B

This information package follows on the Overcoming Disordered Eating - Part A, and provides some strategies and techniques to change the thinking patterns associated with disordered eating.

Modules:

• Module 1: Over-evaluation of Body Shape & Weight
  This module explains what can happen when people judge their self-worth largely on how well they control their eating, weight and shape.
• Module 2: Body Shape Checking,/Avoidance & "Feeling Fat"
  This module discusses some of the consequences of over-emphasising shape and weight.

• Module 3: What Are Mindsets?
  This module describes the "eating disorder mindset," a set of distorted beliefs about eating, weight and shape.

• Module 4: Changing Mindsets
  This module provides more strategies for replacing the old "mindset" with new, more helpful messages.

• Module 5: Low Self-Esteem and Disordered Eating
  This module explores the role of low self-esteem in disordered eating and weight control habits.

• Module 6: Improving Low Self-Esteem
  This module offers strategies for improving self-esteem by developing new rules for living and new, more balanced beliefs about yourself.
• Module 7: Relapse Prevention
  This module helps you develop a plan for maintaining the goals you have achieved so far and another plan for preventing relapse into old disordered behaviours and thoughts related to eating, shape and weight.

Audience

General – adult focused

Language(s)

English

Author Affiliations

The Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) is administered through North Metropolitan Health Services in Western Australia.