Treating eating disorders and eating distress with Compassion Focused Therapy

Dr. Kenneth Goss, Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Therapeutic toolkit with proven strategies and compassionate techniques for long-lasting change

Adult Psychotherapy Cognitive / Behavioral

Overview

Eating disorders and eating distress are particularly challenging to treat. They are frequently associated with high levels of shame, self-criticism and fear of compassion, which contribute to the development and maintenance of psychological distress. These same processes can make therapy itself feel threatening, which helps explain why drop-outs and treatment failures are common.

Dr. Kenneth Goss, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, pioneered Compassion Focused Therapy for Eating Disorders (CFT-E), a transdiagnostic approach rooted in Compassion Focused Therapy that retains key elements of eating disorder treatment such as structured eating, meal planning and therapeutic weighing. In this on-demand online training, made up of pre-recorded video lessons organised into chapters, he presents the CFT-E model, the research that supports it, and how to implement it in practice, including its more recent development, CFT-E2.

You will learn how to help clients understand their eating disorder as an understandable "safety strategy", how the threat, drive and soothing systems (the "Three Circles") operate in eating disorders, and why biological starvation and the hunger–satiety system must be addressed during treatment. Dr. Goss also describes the fears of and blocks to compassion that clients often face during recovery, and how these can be worked with.

This training covers:

  • The need for compassion in eating disorders/eating distress, and why drop-outs and treatment failures are common
  • Research on shame, self-criticism, self-compassion and fear of compassion in eating disorders, eating distress and obesity
  • The "eating disorder voice" and its links with self-criticism
  • Affect regulation systems (the "Three Circles") in eating disorders, including the role of pride
  • Set point theory, the hunger–satiety system and the effects of biological starvation
  • A compassionate model for understanding how eating disorders develop, including their intended and unintended consequences
  • The CFT-E model, CFT-E formulation and the CFT-E group program
  • Applications of CFT with low-weight clients, obesity, binge eating and carers
  • The CFT-E2 model: core assumptions, foci of change, developing capacity for safeness and compassion, and the stages of therapy
  • The phases of the CFT-E2 program: psycho-education, skills, recovery and maintenance
  • Outcome research on CFT-E and CFT-E2, including an inpatient randomized controlled trial comparing CFT-E with CBT

Throughout the lessons, clinical reflection exercises invite you to apply the material to your own clients and to consider how CFT-E could be integrated into your clinical practice, at your own pace.

Download the program

  • 5h of continuing education
  • 32 lessons that last from 5 to 15 minutes each
  • 1 certificate of achievement
  • 1 PowerPoint
  • 1 bibliography
  • 1 course evaluation
  • 7-day money back guarantee
  • Unlimited access
  • 81% of participants who completed the satisfaction survey declare they would recommend this course to a colleague

Accreditation

Ordre des Psychologues du Québec
Canadian Psychological Association
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
Collège des médecins du Québec

For physicians who practice psychotherapy, training recognized by the Ordre des psychologues du Québec is automatically considered as activities adopted by the Collège des médecins, in accordance with Article 3 of the Regulation.

For physicians who do not practice psychotherapy, the College evaluates each recognition request based on the following criteria:

  • the relevance of the activity to the practice of the profession
  • the skills and experience of the trainer
  • the quality of the content and its adequacy with the physician's practice
  • the pedagogical framework of the activity
  • the quality of the documentation provided
  • compliance with the training objectives set out in the regulation
  • the presence of a certificate of participation or an evaluation

About the expert

Picture of Kenneth Goss

Dr Ken Goss, psychologist, is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 30 years of experience working with people with eating difficulties. He has published numerous academic papers and book chapters on the role of shame and compassion in eating disorders.

He leads an ongoing research program exploring these issues and their relationship with therapeutic practice and outcomes. He was the Course Director of the Birmingham University Post Graduate Diploma training course in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). He has worked closely with Professor Paul Gilbert, the originator of Compassion Focused Therapy and pioneered the use of Compassion Focused Therapy for Eating Disorders (CFT-E).

He is the author of the first book on CFT for disordered eating, “The Compassionate Mind-Guide to Ending Overeating” (New Harbinger Publications, 2011), currently under evaluation for its clinical efficacy as a guided self-help program.

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Learning objectives

  1. Understand the CFT-E model
  2. Understand the role of shame, self-criticism and fear of compassion in the development and maintenance of psychological distress, and specifically eating disorders
  3. Implement the CFT-E treatment model.

Learning material

A theoretical course illustrated with clinical examples. This course is composed of videos of 5 to 15 minutes each. The PowerPoint of the course to download.

Syllabus

  • PowerPoint
  • 1. Introduction

  • Understanding Eating Disorders and Compassion

  • 2. Need for Compassion in ED-Edis
  • 3. Drop Outs and Treatment Failures
  • 4. Eating Disorders & Shame Research

  • Clinical Insights and Affect Regulation

  • 5. Clinical Reflections 1
  • 6. Types of Affect Regulator Systems in Eating Disorders
  • 7. Clinical Reflections 2
  • 8. Obesity Shame and Self Compassion
  • 9. Clinical Reflections 3
  • 10. Clinical Reflections 4
  • 11. Some difficulties
  • 12. Clinical Reflections 5

  • The Satiety System and Reflections

  • 13. Satiety system part 1
  • 14. Satiety system part 2
  • 15. Clinical Reflections 6

  • Compassionate Models and Consequences

  • 16. A Compassionate Model for Understanding How Eating Disorders Develop
  • 17. Clinical Reflections 7
  • 18. Unintended Consequences
  • 19. Clinical Reflection 8

  • The Compassion Focused Therapy for Eating Disorders (CFT-E)

  • 20. The CFT-E Model
  • 21. The CFT-E Program
  • 22. Low Weight Obesity and CFT

  • Advanced CFT-E2 Framework

  • 23. CFT-E2 Model part 1
  • 24. CFT-E2 Model part 2
  • 25. CFT-E2 Developing Capacity
  • 26. Stages of CFT-E2
  • 27. CFT-E2 Psycho-education

  • CFT-E2 Skills and Recovery

  • 28. CFT-E2 Skills session 1 to 6
  • 29. CFT-E2 Skills session 7 to 12
  • 30. CFT-E2 Recovery
  • 31. CFT-E2 Outcomes
  • 32. Conclusion
  • Bibliography


Audience

This training is intended for mental health professionals.

Your comments

"The only critique or suggestion I have is that the trainer`s voice is quite monotomous at times." (automatically translated)
A psychotherapist (Canada)

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  • 5h of continuing education
  • 32 lessons that last from 5 to 15 minutes each
  • 1 certificate of achievement
  • 1 PowerPoint
  • 1 bibliography
  • 1 course evaluation
  • 7-day money back guarantee
  • Unlimited access

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