Supporting young people with eating disorders
28 March 2025 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm
- Date: March 28, 2025
- Time: 10:30 – 15:30
- Cost: BSA Full Member – £175, BSA Affiliate Member – £ 250, Non-member – £350
- Audience: Boarding staff, medical staff, Head of Boarding, Deputy Head, mental health leads
- Platform: Zoom (online) – seminar
Course outline:
Eating disorders are wide-ranging and complicated, and remain high on the list of risk areas in mental health care and provision, especially for young people. Eating disorders are a complex mental illness with a high mortality rate, not only down to the eating disorder and malnutrition, but also suicide. For staff working with young people, having the confidence to offer support, and open up conversations about eating disorders can be nerve-wracking.
Our expert speaker, Tina McGuff, will address the need to raise awareness and have a proactive approach to supporting mental health concerns before the need for clinical intervention is reached. Tina will share her own story and invites delegates to ask questions. She will then go through the do’s and don’ts of supporting people with eating disorders, considering use of language, active listening, cultural differences and how eating disorders will be experienced differently by different people.
Training topics will include:
- A lived experience of eating disorder
- Do’s and don’ts of supporting people with eating disorders
- Language
- Cultural differences
- How experiences will vary.
Learning outcomes:
- Improved confidence in supporting people with an eating disorder
- Improved confidence in approaching people you may think are displaying signs of needing early intervention
- Signs and symptoms
- Do’s and don’ts when it comes to supporting people with eating disorders
- Use of language
- Importance of active listening
- Cultural differences for international students
- Seeking appropriate clinical intervention.
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