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• CCI Study on Telehealth During COVID-19 Published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders 15 July 2021 CCI Study on Telehealth During COVID-19 Published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders Psychological treatments for eating disorders have traditionally been provided using face-to-face therapy. However the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) resulted in eating disorder treatment services in Western Australia and around the world having to rapidly transition to providing treatment via teletherapy. Concerns have been raised that outcomes may be worse when treatment is delivered remotely via teletherapy than in person; and more generally that the pandemic may have resulted in a substantially worsening of symptoms among people with eating disorders. However high-quality research is needed to establish whether such claims are valid. We sought to investigate the impact of a forced switch in therapy modality on treatment outcomes. We did this by studying the outcomes of eating disorder patients treated at CCI during the pandemic ("COVID cohort") and comparing them against patients treated at our clinic before the pandemic ("Pre-COVID cohort"). Treatment outcomes, such as reductions in eating disorder symptoms and impairment, were similar for the COVID and pre-COVID cohorts, suggesting that evidence-based treatment can still be ef...
• Act Belong Commit References CCI Materials in Article on Managing Anxiety in Lockdown 01 July 2021 Act Belong Commit References CCI Materials in Article on Managing Anxiety Mid-Way Through (Another) Lockdown Act Belong Commit released an article yesterday on how people can manage their anxiety in the context of another COVID-related lockdown here ...
• Professor Peter McEvoy Interviewed About High Functioning Anxiety 10 June 2021 Professor Peter McEvoy Interviewed About High Functioning Anxiety Professor Peter McEvoy, one of CCI’s Senior Clinical Psychologist and our Director of Research(who is also a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Curtin University) was recently i...
• Founding CCI Director Awarded ACPA Lifetime Membership 30 April 2021 Founding CCI Director Awarded ACPA Lifetime Membership At the 2020 Annual General Meeting of the Australian Clinical Psychology Association (ACPA) it was announced that our Founding Director, Paula Nathan, was to be welcomed as a Lifetime Member of A...