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SUMMARY:Workshop Programe – Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders
DESCRIPTION:\nRakhawy Institute for Training and Research (RITR)\nInternational Society for Schema Therapy (ISST)\nSchema Therapy Institute East Switzerland (ISTOS)\n(ONLINE WORKSHOP)\n25./26.09.2025\nDr. Susan Simpson\nis a Clinical Psychologist who has specialized in Schema Therapy for complex eating disorders over the past 20 years. She currently works in an NHS outpatient eating disorders unit in Scotland. She also runs the only ISST-accredited Schema Therapy training program in Scotland. She regularly runs Schema Therapy workshops through Schema Therapy Scotland and Schema Therapy Training Australia. She is part of an international research group which is currently investigating the effectiveness of Schema Therapy for eating disorders. She has published several research papers on the schema therapy model applied to a range of clinical populations and has presented her findings at national and international conferences. She is currently co-authoring the first book on Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders, which will be published by Routledge in 2020.  A full list of her publications can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan_Simpson/publications ( https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan_Simpson/publications )\nWorkshop Programe – Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders\nWhy use schema therapy for eating disorders?\nSchema Therapy is an innovative transdiagnostic treatment model that is ideally suited to the treatment of eating disorders and is well equipped to address the rigidly held belief systems, characterological traits, affective instability, trauma-based symptomatology and comorbidities that have been shown to interfere with clinical outcomes in eating disorders. Schema Therapy has demonstrated promising preliminary findings for eating disorders, including one randomized controlled trial (Joshua, 2023). Further, there is robust evidence for the effectiveness of schema therapy in the treatment of disorders that are frequently comorbid with eating disorders, and which appear to interfere with the effectiveness of first-line treatments, including borderline, cluster c, and narcissistic PDs, chronic depression, and complex trauma.\nThe workshop will provide therapists with an opportunity to learn powerful techniques for working with eating disorders, including those with entrenched beliefs, high complexity and comorbidity (e.g. OCD, rigid personality traits, PTSD). Anyone interested in learning to apply the schema therapy mode work to assist people with eating disorders would benefit from this workshop. The workshop will provide participants with practical experience and guidance in the use of innovative versions of imagery, chair work and other techniques for change. Videos and demonstrations will be used to illustrate experiential change techniques. Training will specifically include working with vulnerable [child] modes, limited reparenting skills, bypassing avoidant or over compensatory coping modes, and fighting punitive (self-critical) or guilt inducing thinking patterns that drive eating disorder behaviors. Participants will receive handouts that they can use in their clinical work.\nThe workshop will offer you methods to cope with these challenging situations and will include:\nMethods to formulate complex eating disorder thoughts, behaviors, urges, & comorbid disorders using schema ‘modes’\nImagery & chair-work to set limits on self-defeating ’inner critic’ modes\nRecognize & learn to work with common coping modes in eating disorders including Over controller modes, and Helpless Surrenderer modes\nEmpathic confrontation & chair-work to bypass strong coping modes\nWorking with clients who are reluctant to participate in experiential work & to connect with emotions.\nMethods to access vulnerability & distress in eating disorders in order to enhance healing.\nEnhancing client’s Healthy Adult mode in treatment.\nThe latest evidence-base for Schema Therapy with Eating Disorders & common comorbidities\n\nProgram\nDay 1:\n9.00 – 11.30 Introduction\n– Gaps in Eating Disorder evidence base\n– Comorbidity and complexity in eating disorders\n– Rationale for Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders\n– Preliminary evidence of Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders\n11.30 – 11.50 Coffee and tea break\n11.50– 13.00\n–       Modes & Mode Maps\no   Review of the modes relevant to eating disorders\no   Introducing some new eating disorder modes\no   Differentiating modes & linking to specific eating behaviors (dietary restraint, bingeing, purging, overexercise, rituals)\no   Getting to know the Over controller mode\no   Group Exercise – Developing a mode map for your eating disorder clients\n13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break\n14.00 – 15.30\n– Schema assessment & education of eating disorders from a schema therapy perspective.\n-Identification of unmet needs & schemas that drive eating disorders\n– Exploring agendas and fears of recovery linked to coping modes\n15.30 – 15.50 Break\n15.50 – 17.00\n– Group Exercise (Experiential): Imagery Rescripting with childhood experiences directly/indirectly linked to development of Eating Disorders\nDay 2:\n09.00 – 12.30 (with a coffee break between 11.30 and 11.50)\n– Experiential Techniques in working with eating disorders\no   Working with Critic Modes (chair work)\no   Bypassing the Over controller mode (therapist plays Vulnerable Child)\no   Group Exercise: Bypassing the Over controller mode (therapist plays Devil’s Advocate)\n13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break\n14.00- 15.30\n– Variations in Imagery Rescripting\n15.30 – 15.50 Break\n15.50 – 17.00\n– Empathic Confrontation with Coping Modes in Eating Disorders\n– Common pitfalls and issues\n– Questions & opportunity to discuss cases (supervision)\n \n\n\n
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