Advanced Workshop - Family Based Therapy for Adolescents

2-Day Advanced online workshop on Family Based Therapy for Adolescents: A special form of family therapy with an eating disorder focus Presented by: Andrew Wallis

 

Workshop details:

Friday 30 & Saturday 31 May, 9am - 4pm each day AEST (online)

Workshop overview:

Family Based Therapy (FBT) is an evidence-based eating disorder specific outpatient treatment first developed at the Maudsley Hospital in London in the 1980’s with further development in the USA (Stanford and Chicago) in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. FBT integrates concepts from a number of family therapy models in a developmentally sensitive framework and holds the basic premise that parents are the best resource to help their child recover from anorexia nervosa.

While simple to understand, the clinical practice of FBT can often be a challenge for clinicians who want to maintain fidelity and respond to the individual family and the clinical complexities.

This online workshop is for mental health clinicians, experienced with FBT, who want to reflect on their practice and develop more advanced family therapy skills. In addition to the FBT principles the workshop will integrate systemic family therapy ideas to develop a strong focus on the therapy process, while also maintaining fidelity to the treatment structure and goals.

Workshop Content:

Over the two days we will focus on -

  • Establishing a secure base and relationship focus alongside the core principles.
  • Working with common in session dynamics such as parental discord, mis-attuned interactions, strong emotions, and poor participation.
  • Advanced interviewing skills that help parents and children to talk in session using questions, reflections and attuned responding.
  • Clinical issues and processes in the later phases of treatment

Pre-requisites:

It is expected that clinicians attending will have -

  • Experience implementing FBT
  • Professional training and skills in child and adolescent mental health care

    •  This workshop will be held online. To register, please log in to your account (ANZAED members). Non-members, please create a new account to register.

    Workshop Pricing:

    ANZAED Members: $510.00

    Non-Members: $610.00
    When
    30/05/2025 9:00 AM - 31/05/2025 4:00 PM
    AUS Eastern Standard Time
    Where
    AUSTRALIA
    Spots available
    Registration
    Online registration not available.

    Speakers

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    Andrew Wallis

    Two Day Advanced Workshop
    Dr Andrew Wallis is a Clinical Social Worker and Family Therapist. He has been working with adolescents and their families for more than 30 years. He is currently the Network Lead of the Eating Disorder Service at Sydney Children’s Hospital Network - a tertiary service in Sydney, Australia. In 2003 with colleagues at The Children’s Hospital, Westmead, he established the first Family-Based Therapy program in Australia, and Multiple Family therapy for Anorexia Nervosa in 2014. He has been providing training, consultation and supervision in Australia and New Zealand for more than 15 years, helping to support public and private services to implement family therapy approaches to adolescent problems. Andrew has also been involved in FBT research with more than 25 peer reviewed papers and book chapters including his PhD research on the impact of Family Based Therapy on family relationships.

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