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Clinicians are invited to join this 2-day workshop to discuss the application of Adolescent Focused Therapy (AFT) in the treatment of adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa.


Treatment of Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa: Adolescent Focused Therapy (AFT)

2-DAY WORKSHOP

This workshop will prepare you to understand the background, theory, and application of Treatment of Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa: Adolescent Focused Therapy (AFT). This workshop will utilize an interactive format, including clinical discussion, role plays and lecture.

  • Registration:  TBD
  • Date:  TBD
  • Time:  TBD
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Hosted by TBD

* NOTE: Individuals are only eligible for the trainee rate if they are a current student enrolled in a mental health related graduate program, post-doctoral fellowship, or in the process of getting licensed (e.g. LSW to LCSW). Please email us to provide appropriate documentation to verify your eligibility for the discounted rate. 

Adolescent-focused therapy (AFT) is an individual psychotherapy for adolescents suffering from anorexia, and is recommended as a second-line alternative to family-based treatment.

AFT is a psycho-dynamically informed individual psychotherapy focusing on enhancing autonomy, self-efficacy, individuation and assertiveness while also including collateral parent meetings to support individual treatment.

The treatment emphasizes on the young person's ability to change his or her own behaviors with the support of the family and therapist. Whereas in a family-based approach the parents are central to treatment, with AFT they only have a supporting role . The importance of a return to normal development, both in eating and in the child or adolescent’s daily living, is essential for preventing relapse and rounds out the end of treatment. Endorsed by the NICE guidelines as the first line of treatment for child and adolescent eating disorders.

If you cancel workshop registration within the time from when you register to one month in advance of the workshop, you will be reimbursed 50% of the registration fee, and within one month, no refund.

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