This inspiring up-to-date course brings the latest thinking from health psychology and other approaches to help you with clients seeking weight reduction.

The Program

This course is a part of the Master Practitioner Program. It brings together people from all over the world with a clinical and personal interest in weight management. We offer comprehensive, evidence-based training providing a wealth of knowledge.

Recognition: This course is approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre for the purpose of Continuing Professional Development. For any CPD points or CME credits, attendees will have to make their independent requests through their professional organization to assess if their organization will grant them CPD or CME based on the course learnings.

What You will learn:

• Current thinking about all weight loss approaches including drugs & surgery

• How to assess, engage & motivate

• How to customize treatment, getting the right fit

• How to manage barriers to change in diet & lifestyle

• How to deal with comfort & emotional eating

• How to deal with weight stigma

• Targeting relationships

• How to transform obesity thinking

• How to deal with difficult clients

• Dealing with pitfalls, like plateau & relapse

• Important counsellor qualities

• Where psychology, medication, or surgery may fit into an overall treatment plan

• How to boost willpower

Suitability

Psychologists & psychotherapists, counselors & addiction specialists, psychiatrists, family medicine, nutritionists, dieticians, nurses, coaches, and any other healthcare professional interested in or working with Eating Disorders.

Awards

A Certificate of Attendance will be offered at the end of the training, however, if you seek to receive the Diploma In Obesity Management: Psychological Interventions, you will be required to complete a marked assignment after the course.

Note : Upon receiving the Award, you will require close and ongoing clinical supervision to ensure best practice. It is essential to note that becoming an eating disorders specialist takes time and experience. The training offered is an important step in becoming an expert.