August 31st (2020) Start
This online course covers fundamental concepts and techniques of schema theory and therapy (ST) as it relates to the presentation and treatment of eating disorders. This includes the assessment of schemas and modes specific to eating disorders, as well as core experiential, interpersonal, cognitive and behavioural change techniques. Participants will be shown how to conceptualise eating disorders in the context of wider comorbidity, and to utilize powerful techniques to challenge self-criticism and eating disorder symptoms. Participants will learn ways they can help clients to build a healthy compassionate self to replace the ‘survival’ modes that drive eating disordered behaviours.
Training can be viewed at your own time and pace. There will be access to live Zoom Q&A Meetings with Susan (recorded) and discussion forums to encourage active engagement and learning. Material will be made available to registrants for a further 6-weeks after the completion of the course (so 12-weeks access in total).
The training covers 16-hours of Active Continuing Professional Development. A certificate of attendance will be provided at completion of the course.
Course Curriculum
- Intro: How to Get the Most Out of Your Online Course with Susan Simpson
- Intro to the week- “Welcome to Course 1: Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders” (5:16)
- Webinar 1: Evidence base, Comorbidity & Rationale for ST for Eating Disorders (23:33)
- Webinar 2: PATHWAYS to EATING DISORDERS - The role of temperament & childhood experiences in Eating Disorders (38:30)
- Webinar 3 & Video Material- Attachment Styles and Eating Disorders (10:56)
- Webinar 4 - Schema Therapy Assessment in Eating Disorders (46:02)
- Reflection Exercise: Formulating your clients' SCHEMA STORY based on unmet needs (22:38)
- Schema Mode Inventory for Eating Disorders - SMI-ED
- Intro to the week- “Welcome to Module 2”
- Webinar 1: Introducing common Eating Disorder Modes (60:44)
- Webinar 2: ST Formulation, Mode Mapping in Eating Disorders (32:55)
- Video - Talkback show Dr. Phil - Portrayals of anorexia nervosa & binge eating disorder (9:21)
- Video: Diagnostic Imagery to identify ED modes & schemas linked to unmet needs (22:40)
- Reflection Exercises: (1) Identify the possible modes that link to each stage of Fairburn's CBT-E model of Eating Disorders; (2) 'Spot the Modes' roleplay with Susan & Rob (12:57)
- Answers to Reflection Exercise 2: Spot the Modes
- Intro to the week- “Welcome to Module 3”
- Webinar 1: Identifying and Working with Modes to Work With Motivation Issues; Internal Mode Meetings - facilitating mode dialogues and co-consciousness (84:05)
- Videos - Talkshow clip demonstrating the of role modes in creating ambivalence (6:46)
- Skills: Explaining the concept of modes & learning to roll with resistance (13:14)
- Working with Ambivalence Reflection Exercise (13:55)
- Zoom Recording of Live Q & A Session on 16th September, 2020 (recording Available Here) (80:17)
- Intro to the week- “Welcome to Module 4”
- Webinar - Limited Reparenting & Attunement to the hidden Lonely Child. What can we learn from neuroscience? (96:18)
- Skills Video- ' I have no Vulnerable Child' - Contaminating the Chair' (5:48)
- Skills: Video: Coaching Client's Healthy Adult to reparent their Vulnerable Child (3:42)
- Bonus Material: Five-step process of attunement with Rob Brockman (34:34)
- Reflection Exercise: Wheel of Awareness (8:57)
- Intro to the week- “Welcome to Module 5”
- Webinar 1 - Recognising the Inner Critic (77:50)
- Video-clips- Appearance-Focused Inner Critic Messages (6:46)
- Webinar 2: Differentiating the Inner Critic from the Flagellating Overcontroller: Why is it important, and how should we respond?· (15:17)
- Skills Video: Imagery Rescripting to address childhood experiences linked to ED & schemas (39:55)
- Skills Video: Strengthening the Healthy Adult Mode (11:37)
- Video Clip - Fighting the Inner Critic - My Mad Fat Diary (3:17)
- Skills video - chairwork to fight the Punishing Mode (23:03)
- Reflection Exercise: Focusing on our own body-focused Inner Critic messages (3:00)
- Intro to the week- “Welcome to Module 6”
- Webinars - Working with Coping Modes (82:17)
- Videos – Overcontroller/Overanalyser mode - diet-focused rumination as a means of blocking vulnerability (9:00)
- Videos - Mogli Metaphor of 'Trance' of Detached Self Soother (2:57)
- Skills Video - Pros & Cons of Eating Disorder Coping Modes Exercise (34:11)
- Skills Video - Chairwork for when client can't access their Vulnerable Side. Therapist plays Vulnerable Child. (23:21)
- Skills videos- Chair Work With Overcontroller; (29:42)
- Live Podcast and Q & A on 7th Oct 2020 (Recording Available here) (62:24)
- Reflection Exercise: Therapists' coping modes as blocks to attunement
- Intro to the week- “Welcome to Module 7”
- Webinar 1 – The Role of Cognitive (& Behavioural) Strategies for Change in Eating Disorders (59:20)
- Webinar 2 – Behavioural Change Strategies (51:50)
- Videos – Reviewing the Evidence Technique for Dealing With Failure or Defectiveness/Social Undesirability Schemas
- Skills exercise- Upward Arrow Technique to identify function of Coping Modes
- Final Exercise: Audio Flashcard for Responding to Body Signals (10:48)
Your Presenter - Dr Susan Simpson
Dr. Susan Simpson is a Clinical Psychologist who has specialised in Schema Therapy for complex eating disorders over the past 20 years. She is secretary of the ISST Executive Board, and director of an ISST accredited training program, Schema Therapy Scotland. She has worked in specialist eating disorders services for over 15 years, and is currently based in an NHS-Scotland inpatient eating disorders unit. She is part of an international research group which is investigating the effectiveness of Schema Therapy for eating disorders. She has published several book chapters and journal articles on schema therapy, with a particular focus on the eating disorder population. She is co-author/editor of the book Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders published by Routledge (2020). Susan has presented at national and international conferences and has provided workshops across Australia and Europe.
For a list of research publications, see: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan_Simpson