FEAST Webinar 2024.12 Dec

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About this Webinar:

Caring for someone with an eating disorder is immensely difficult. Adding autism to the mix makes treatment even more challenging, leaving parents and clinicians alike at a loss to adapt treatments to suit neurodiversity. This webinar features a panel of three experts on eating disorders and autism; each panelist will discuss her area of work and share knowledge and insight about treating eating disorders alongside autism The webinar will offer practical strategies to help caregivers support the eating disorder recovery of a loved one with autism, and will share research findings on adapting Family Based Treatment to individuals with autism.

Presenter Bios: 

Kate Tchanturia, Professor of Psychology in Eating Disorders at King’s College London and Consultant Psychologist of National Eating Disorder Service in South London and Maudsley NHS foundation Trust. Kate has 40 years of experience working in the field of Clinical Psychology. Her clinical and research interests cover women’s mental health,  experimental work in cognitive and emotional processing and translational work from experimental psychology to innovative psychological interventions. She is a member and fellow of Academy Europe, British Psychological Society, Academy of Eating Disorders, Higher education academy and a few other professional bodies. She edited three books in English about the workshop topics and authored more than 300 peer reviewed papers and delivered training and teaching around the world. She is a president elect EDRS 2024.
https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/kate.tchanturia.html

Dr. Fiona Duffy is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in an NHS child and adolescent eating disorder team, a Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh University and a Scottish Government Clinical Advisor on Eating Disorders. She is co-primary investigator of the Eating Disorders and Autism Collaborative (EDAC: The Eating Disorders and Autism Collaborative • EDAC (edacresearch.co.uk) a network designed to bring the eating disorder and autism research field together, with research directed by Autistic people with lived experience of an eating disorder.

Madeline Oakley is Australian by birth and settled in the UK, working as a university teacher and psychoanalytic and family systemic psychotherapist. She is a family carer for a young adult son who has autism and a learning disability. She joined Professor Kate Tchanturia on the PEACE Pathway in 2019, where she has piloted and developed online therapeutic support and psychoeducational interventions for carers of family members with autism and concurrent eating disorders. She is currently writing up her PhD: 'Developing Online Interventions for Families with Autism and Concurrent Eating Disorders or Psychosis'. Alongside her research and clinical work, she works as a Senior Teaching Fellow in Mental Health Studies at King's College London.

 

Date: December 4
Time: 9:30 AM PT / 12:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM UK

Location: Zoom Platform
United States

 

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