Eating Disorders Full Day

Course overview

This course is designed for anyone wanting to improve their skills and reach their potential as a practitioner. The course is fully interactive and prompts you to assess your own approach to supporting young people who may require additional support with eating disorders. The course covers key topics such as statistical research within the U.K. current thinking around the causes of an eating disorder, provides learners with signs and symptoms to raise their awareness, discusses mental health legislation within the U.K. aimed at protecting health and wellbeing and highlights diagnostic factors within the Health & Wellbeing Standards (Care Standards). The course also includes a downloadable PDF workbook that you can fill in as you complete the training, so that you can develop your skills as a leader or manager and get the most out of the course content.

Aims and objectives

• Define Eating disorders and mention some of the most common ones in the UK
• Give a background into Eating Disorders and what research suggests causes them
• Give detailed accounts of the signs and symptoms for practitioners to recognise and engage an individual with early intervention
• Discuss the Mental Health Legislation of the UK that is used to make decisions for and protect the health and wellbeing of people with Eating Disorders
• Highlight the Diagnostic factors and The Health and Wellbeing standard