Online Self-help Resources on Body Image and Eating Disorders - Centre for Clinical Interventions WA
The core psychopathology of Eating Disorders involves an overvaluation of control over weight, shape and eating. The leading evidence-based treatment for bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder is cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or its enhanced version, CBT-E. Whilst there is not yet a gold standard treatment for anorexia nervosa, CBT-E has also been found to be effective with anorexia nervosa. The Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) has created a double set of website modules, Overcoming Disordered Eating A and B, based on enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders: http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/resources/infopax.cfm?Info_ID=48
Those with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) tend to overestimate the likelihood that others will respond to their appearance in a negative manner, underestimate their ability to cope if this did occur and discount any information which suggests otherwise. CCI’s website modules, Building Body Acceptance, address these issues using evidence-supported CBT interventions: http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/resources/infopax.cfm?Info_ID=55
Anthea Fursland, PhD, FAED
Acting Director, Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI)
Gerhard is a full professor of Clinical Psychology at Linköping University, Sweden since 2003, an
d affiliated researcher at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Professor Andersson is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of CBT delivered through information and communication technology, as well as the author of the book “The Internet and CBT: a clinical guide”.
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