WA Eating Disorders Outreach and Consultation Service
½ Day Reconceptualising Weight Goals Workshop
This workshop is suitable for ALL clinicians working with people living with an eating disorder.
Clinicians have begun to recognise the limitations of some of the guidelines espoused by evidence-based treatment approaches that were developed and manualized over 20 years ago. A recent paper (Byrne & Fursland, 2024) offered suggestions for updating several areas of focus, one of which was treatment weight goals. This workshop will highlight the importance of reconceptualising weight restoration goals.
This collaborative workshop will include information on:
- The danger of prolonged weight suppression
- The importance of appropriate weight restoration for long term recovery.
- Explore looking beyond the “healthy weight” range and the target weights mentioned in Family Based Treatment (FBT) and Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT-E) manuals.
- Proposal of an algorithm (after Peebles et al, 2024) for calculating adolescent weight goals and a model for estimating appropriate weight goals for adults.
- Via case examples, illustrate the application of these algorithms.
Participants will break into small groups to work through additional case examples. There will be ample time for discussion about the strengths and limitations of our proposed methods for assessing weight goals.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO NOTE PRIOR TO REGISTERING
This presentation will be held as a live event and the workshop will still be recorded but due to unforseen circumstances will no longer be available for purchase.
A minimum number of clinicians need to register for this workshop to be run. If the workshop DOESN'T reach the minimum number of attendees needed to run, you will be notified 2 weeks prior to the workshop's scheduled date (once registrations have closed) that the workshop is cancelled. If you have paid for this workshop, you will receive a refund for the workshop fee only (i.e. $90.00). Try Booking will charge a small administrative fee which the attendee will bare the cost of. Thanks for your understanding with this.
For those registrering to attend this workshop in-person, please note pending sufficient registration numbers, we may need to move your attendance to online. If this is the case, we will let you know once registrations for the workshop have closed. We appreciate your understanding with this.
You will receive information about the workshop directly after booking and 1 week prior to the workshop including the MS Teams link to connect (if this is your choosen way to attend this workshop). Please ensure that the email address you use to register for this workshop is current and is checked regularly.
The workshop will be recorded for internal use by the WAEDOCS team only and will not be distributed. By purchasing a ticket to attend live training (in-person or online) you acknowledge and agree to these terms.
DATE & TIME
Tuesday 16th September 2025
09:00AM - 01:00PM (WA) - venue opens from 08:30AM | virtual room opens from 08:45AM10
10:30AM - 02:30PM (SA | NT) - virtual room opens from 10:15AM
11:00PM - 03:00PM (QLD | VIC | NSW| ACT | TAS) - virtual room opens from 10:45AM
LOCATION
Online - via MS Teams (link will be emailed 1 week prior to workshop) OR
In-Person - 516 Hay Street, Subiaco, WA (strictly limited places available) OR
COST
WA Clinician - FREE
Outside WA Clinician - $90.00 (including GST) + Trybooking Registration Fee
REGISTRATION CLOSE
Tuesday 30thSeptember 2025 at 5pm
Should you have any enquiries, please contact us on 1300 620 208 (within WA only) or (08) 6458 3130 (outside WA) Monday – Friday 9am – 4pm or via email at waedocs.education@health.wa.gov.au
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