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• A Trial of 10 Session Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Eating Disorders at CCI 02 June 2019 To celebrate World Eating Disorders Action Day on June 2nd 2019, we share some recent innovations developed within our own Eating Disorders Program. There are currently long waitlists to access evidence-based interventions for eating disorders.  This has resulted in an increased need for shorter, cost-effective psychological therapies that are also effective to ease the burden on the healthcare system and ensure that individuals can access appropriate treatment more quickly.  Professor Glenn Waller and colleagues at the University of Sheffield recently developed 10-session Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for eating disorders – an outpatient treatment that adopts some of the key elements of CBT for eating disorders (CBT-ED) such as in-session weighing, exposure, nutrition, cognitive restructuring, body image work, and relapse prevention. Initial evaluations of CBT-T have shown it to be as effective as longer treatments for eating disorders, and that it changes to both behaviour and thinking. It also results in improvements to secondary outcomes such as depression and anxiety....
• Visiting Professionals... Opportunities for Learning and Collaboration 17 April 2019 Here at CCI we are continually looking at innovations in the field of psychology and ways we might be able to improve our practice, collaborate with other professionals, or contribute to advances in psychological interventions. In early April 2019,...
• New Training Workshop CBT for Body Dysmorphic Disorder 28 February 2019 In 2018 CCI was pleased to introduce a new training workshop to its training series that specifically focuses on CBT for body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). Given the positive feedback we received from participants at this training, we will be offering t...
• CCI Founding Director Awarded Officer of The Order of Australia 11 February 2019 Late last year, CCI’s founding director Paula Nathan was awarded the Office of the Order of Australia (AO) on the 2018 Queen’s Birthday List.  Paula was recognised for her distinguished service to community health as a psychologist,...