TBT-S / Clinician Workshop Series
TBT-S is designed to build upon other Eating Disorder (ED) therapies, addressing neurobiological alterations, treating to the traits, and including Supports for clients of all ages.
Registrations
Melbourne TBT-S Level 1 and 2 Training – Week of February 20, 2023
Brisbane – TBT-S level 1 & 2 training – Week of February 27, 2023
Perth* – TBT-S level 1 & 2 training – Week of March 7, 2023
*Note, this is the same training as the Brisbane program but is not being managed by EDFA
Live Streaming Opportunity
Due to requests from the community, we are delighted to announce we now able to offer a number of attendance places via live streaming.
To attend via live streaming the participant will need to;.
Either:
(a) Reside and work in rural, regional or remote parts of Australia,
(b) Reside and work in places in NSW or SA
(c) Reside and work outside of the Brisbane, Melbourne & Perth greater metropolitan areas that require traveling more than 1.5 hours
(d) Can demonstrate to the event organising team they have other significant Impediments which prevent them attending in person.
Please note that if attending via live streaming, the following differences in accreditation from the program.
Level 1 – will need to successfully complete a quiz on the content of the course.
Level 2 – will receive certificates of attendance only.
If you wish to be considered for attendance via live streaming, please email tbt-s@edfa.org.au and:
If intending to demonstrate criterion c, leave the name of the town in which you reside and if you are a clinician, the name and address of the centre where you practice.
If intending to demonstrate criterion d above, include the phone number you would like the Committee Member to call you on to discuss the nature of the significant impediment.
When deemed eligible to attend via live streaming, you will be provided with the required code for use on the booking website.
More about TBT-S
TBT-S (Temperament Based Therapy with Supports) is eating disorder treatment for children, adolescents and adults.
When working with children, TBT-S is applied with FBT as the backbone.
When working with older adolescents and adults, TBTS builds on the modalities;
- Integrated Cognitive Affective Therapy (ICAT)
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT),
- Radically Open Dialectical Therapy RO-DBT
- Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E)
- Family Based Therapy (FBT)
- Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT),
TBT-S does this by addressing neurobiological alterations, treating to the traits, and including Supports.
Originally from the US, TBT-S recognises that family and carers are central to recovery, as this treatment acknowledges and embraces the family in the treatment process. TBTS is now being applied in Australia, through Europe and in South America.
TBT-S uses experiential therapy to help the person with an eating disorder (and their support people) understand how their symptoms can be explained by their temperament – an umbrella term involving biology, brain functioning, genetics and personality traits’.
Currently there is no eating disorder treatment that specifically addresses the biological temperamental factors that are fundamental to eating disorders.
There is no current eating disorders therapeutic approach that explains why these factors are expressed in a common way in those with eating disorders compared to those who do not have this illness.
In addition, just as it is easier to address one small problem at a time, it has been easier to treat one individual at a time. However, since eating disorders have been proven to be a biologically based mental illness, the complexities of the illness require more specialized treatment and more persons present to manage and reshape the illness.
Supports (family and/or friends) are critical in the treatment process of eating disorders, especially anorexia nervosa, for both adolescents and adults due to the usually present egosyntonicity and lack of motivation . Supports need to know the why, how, when and what of the illness, along with their loved ones, in order to know what to do and what not to do to work with these challenges. (See: Innovations in Family Therapy for Eating Disorders Novel Treatment Developments Patient Insights and the Role of Carers )
A new treatment approach has been developing over the past twelve years and tested in open trials over the last eight. It is now available for clinicians. The research findings have found significant acceptability and feasibility both at the end of treatment and follow up.
As of 2018 the new treatment has been named: Temperament Based Therapy with Supports (TBT-S). This therapeutic approach addresses the temperamental contributing and maintaining factors of eating disorders which include genetic, neurobiological, character traits and other biological factors; and includes families/supports in the treatment process. This treatment originated and was developed by Walter Kaye, MD, Stephanie Peck, PhD and Christina Wierenga, PhD at The Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research at UC San Diego and Laura Hill, PhD at The Center for Balanced Living in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
The TBT-S Manual has been published; it contains four sections with 26 topics that discuss the topic and the learning outcomes the reader needs to achieve.
Training Course Reference
The TBTS Manual will be the reference for the training. Clinicians are required to have the book with them at the workshop. It is recommended Carers have the book with them at the workshop.
Registrants will receive a 20% discount code from Cambridge University Press for purchase of the TBT-S Manual – code details will be emailed after registration.
The book can be purchased at:
TBT-S is unique in the following ways :
- The way it uses neurobiological understandings to work therapeutically with the person with the eating disorder
- Treating to traits
- Upskills the persons support network to allow for them to proactively support recovery; and
- Brings together family/support units in a multi-family format to treat multiple persons at the same time while also drawing on the benefits of peer support and learning.
Find more information on the extensive research on TBT-S here.
How the training works
Drs Laura Hill and Stephanie Knatz-Peck have earnt reputations as outstanding presenters and trainers. They have mastered the capacity to unpack complex concepts and deliver them in digestible and engaging ways. Their sessions are highly interactive and experiential, creating the desired cognitive learning and affect to the paradigms needed to adapt the concepts of TBT-S into the clinical work and the support work.
These outstanding presenters are renowned for their warmth and humility with any group they have worked with.
Accreditation
Those who complete day 1 will attain accreditation as TBT-S Introductory Level 1 Training.
This is a one-day introduction to the breadth and depths of TBT-S.
Those who complete the 4-day training will attain accreditation as TBT-S Intermediate Level 2 Training.
The additional three days involves practicing TBT-S clinical tools to apply in outpatient through residential levels of care. It is open to clinicians only.
Level 3 of TBT-S Training will be offered virtually as follow up to all interested who complete Level 2. It consists of 2-hour segments of supervision one time a month over four months.
Contact
For details about the Program and to discuss suitability for you or your practice, contact EDFA’s TBT-S Team Leader, Don Irvine at don.irvine@edfa.org.au
For booking or administrative queries please contact tbt-s@edfa.org.au