January 2008 Archives

I currently have a free slot to see private clients with eating problems. I also work with anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. I see clients near to Kings Cross in London on weekday evenings. If you would like to find out more, please email me in the first instance.

Eating Disorders Awareness Week is coming up again soon - 25th Feb - 2nd March 2008. b-EAT (formerly the eating disorders association) are organising lots of events, and will also launch the results of their carer's survey at the House of Commons on 25th February.
The carer's conference, jointly run by b-EAT and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust will be held at Guy's Hospital on 23rd Feb 2008. You can download further information from the b-EAT website.

Eating Disorders: Journal of Treatment and Prevention has a special issue out on eating disorders and trauma. Guest edited by John Levitt and Randy Sansone, the issue contains articles covering the intriguing but traditionally under-researched relationship between these two areas. Brewerton reviews the literature on PTSD and eating disorders, Waller and colleagues examine the links with emotional abuse and Claes and Vandereyken link trauma to self harm. Briere and Scott's article is a review of assessment instruments for trauma - this is a complex area and it's great to have this summary for those who are not trauma experts. In the treatment section of the issue, Levitt presents a model for working with those affected by complex issues of trauma, eating disorders and abuse, using self-regulation theory.