For health and education professionals

• Please help us recruit participants for our research projects
• Training from the eating disorders research team at the Institute of Psychiatry/Eating Disorders Unit at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
• Downloadable resources from the eating disorders research team at the Institute of Psychiatry/Eating Disorders Unit at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
• Books and other resources
• Websites with resources and information

Please help us recruit participants for our research projects

If you are working with people with eating disorders, please help us recruit participants for our research projects. Below is an information leaflet for people with anorexia and bulimia and we would be grateful if you could download it and give copies to people who you think may be willing to participate in our studies.
Download information leaflet for potential research participants.

Training from the eating disorders research team at the Institute of Psychiatry/Eating Disorders Unit at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical training

The Section of Eating Disorders at the IoP and the Eating Disorders Unit at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) jointly organise training for mental health professionals, GPs, and carers throughout the UK and across the world.

The training is based on the empirical evidence derived from a programme of research that stretches back to 1979.

It includes training in:
Treatments for anorexia nervosia and bulimia nervosa;
Motivational Interviewing;
Cognitive Analytical Therapy;
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy;
Cognitive Remediation Therapy;
Skills for carers;
Working with families of people with eating disorders.

Details of training are normally posted on the IoP website events page, www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/events and there is information about training in Motivational Interviewing on the events and training page of this website. Or contact Gill Todd, gill.todd@slam.nhs.uk for more information.

Research training

If you would like to work with us to get experience as a volunteer or to get research training as part of your PhD, please contact Janet Treasure, janet.treasure@kcl.ac.uk

Downloadable resources from the eating disorders research team at the Institute of Psychiatry/Eating Disorders Unit at South London and Maudsley NHS Trust

Student Counsellor Guide to eating disorders (2008)
Download pdf

Self-harm and eating disorders policies for schools and colleges
These policies provide useful information, practical guidance and suggested actions for school staff to help them help their students who are at risk of or suffering from self-harm or disordered eating.

They have been developed by Jodi Knightsmith in the eating disorders research team in consultation with mental health professionals and the Department of Health as part of a research project – Prevention and management strategies for disordered eating and self-harm in UK schools

Download eating disorders policy
Download self-harm policy

The SCOFF questionnaire
To aid early detection of eating disorders, developed by John Morgan at Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust.
Download pdf

Could this be an eating disorder?
A questionnaire to help establish whether there are sufficient reasons to be worried about a person’s state possibly being an eating disorder.
Download pdf

A Guide to the Medical Risk Assessment for Eating Disorders (2009)
Designed for use with outpatients and inpatients with eating disorders.
Download pdf

Refeeding Programme (2009)
Download pdf

Guidelines for assisted feeding in patients displaying extreme dietary restraint
Download pdf

Protocol for management of hypophosphataemia as part of the refeeding syndrome
To be read in conjunction with A Guide to the Medical Risk Assessment for Eating Disorders and Guidelines for assisted feeding in patients displaying extreme dietary restraint.
Download pdf

Post discharge care and relapse prevention plan
Download pdf

Maudsley Body Mass Index Table
Download pdf

Maudsley Nutritional Health Over Time Chart
Download pdf

A GP's Guide to Eating Disorders 
Download pdf

Medical complications of anorexia nervosa
Download pdf

Motivational Interviewing
Download pdf

Be careful with caffeine: information for people with eating disorders (2008)
Download pdf

General physical well-being recommendations: information for people with eating disorders (2008)
Download pdf

Carers Need Assessment Measure (CaNaM)
This questionnaire is designed to assess the needs of a carer of someone with an eating disorder.
Download pdf of questionnaire
For more information, see:
Investigating the Needs of Carers in the Area of Eating Disorders: Development of the Carers' Needs Assessment Measure (CaNAM)
Haigh R & Treasure JL
European Eating Disorder Review, 2003, 11, 125-141

Books and other resources

NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence)
Treatment Guidelines for England and Wales
Published 28 January 2004

Research and background information for the guideline is available in a book,
Eating Disorders guidelines

The Clinician’s Guide to Collaborative Caring in Eating Disorders:
The new Maudsley Method
Edited by Janet Treasure, Ulrike Schmidt and Pam Macdonald
published September 10 2009 by Routledge, £65 hardback, £24.99 paperback

This book shows how active collaboration between professional and non-professional carers can maximise the quality of life for both the individual with eating disorders and all other family members.

It provides straightforward guidance for clinicians who work with families and carers. It suggests ways of ensuring that interpersonal elements that can maintain eating disorders are minimised and indicates skills and knowledge that can be taught to the carer for both managing their personal reaction to the illness, and for providing a practically and emotionally supportive environment that is conducive to change. The appendices contain a Toolkit for Carers, a series of worksheets designed to help carers recognise their own unique caring styles.

This book is for all health professionals working with people with eating disorders. It is relevant across a variety of settings and client groups including inpatients, outpatients, community and day patients.
Order online

Skills-based learning for caring for a loved one with an eating disorder:
The new Maudsley method
by Janet Treasure, Gráinne Smith, Anna Crane
published by Routledge, 2007, £12.99

This book gives carers the skills and knowledge they need to support and encourage people with an eating disorder, and to help them to break free from the traps that prevent recovery. Detailed techniques and strategies aim to improve carers' ability to build continuity and consistency of support. The authors use evidence-based research and personal experience to advise on a number of difficult areas in caring for someone with an eating disorder.
Order online

The Caring Role in Eating Disorders
is a leaflet for carers written by Professor Janet Treasure
Download leaflet 

Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey
Cole TJ, Flegal KM, Nicholls D, Jackson AA
BMJ 2007; 335 (7612): 194
download paper

Films about anorexia for teachers and secondary school students
School Matters – Battling Anorexia is a 45 minute documentary made for Key Stage 3 and 4 teachers as a PSHE resource.

Made for Teachers’ TV, the film features three teenagers, two girls and a boy, who are beat Young Ambassadors, talking openly about their battle with anorexia. School staff and health professionals talk about support that can be offered: the video features Professor Janet Treasure from the eating disorders research team at the Institute of Psychiatry and eating disorders services at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

You can access the film at Teachers’ TV
Access a 15 minute student’s version: KS3/4 PHSE – Anorexia

Working with Carers and Families of those with Eating Disorders
Janet Treasure spoke at the 2008 Peter Beumont Memorial Lecture in November at the University of Sydney, Australia, about Working with Carers and Families of those with Eating Disorders.

The event’s title was Understanding eating disorders, Tailoring treatment ot patient and carer needs and was organised by the Wesley Mission in conjunction with the School of Psychology and the Department of Psychological Medicine (Psychiatry) at the University of Sydney and The Eating Disorders Foundation.

The other presentation was from Professor Stephen Touyz, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sydney and Co-Director of the Peter Beumont Centre for Eating Disorders, Wesley Private Hospital. He spoke about Challenges facing the field of eating disorders: What we know and what we don’t know.

View Janet Treasure’s Presentation
View Stephen Touyz’ Presentation
View Panel Discussion

New directions for home treatment of eating disorders
Transcript and recording of lecture by Professor Janet Treasure about the history of eating disorders, myths and misperceptions, causes and new approaches to treatment. The lecture took place at Gresham College on 14 February 2006.
A recording and transcript is archived at www.gresham.ac.uk
listen to lecture/read transcript

Anorexia Nervosa: a survival guide for families, friends and sufferers
by Janet Treasure
published by Psychology Press, 1997, £12.99

This book is for both for people with anorexia nervosa and for family members. It shares the knowledge and skills that are required to manage an eating disorder.
Available from Amazon
and the beat Bookshop
and the Eating Disorders Arena

Getting Better BitE by BitE
Survival Kit for sufferers of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders: Clinicians’ Guide
by Janet Treasure and Ulrike Schmidt
published 1997 by Psychology Press, £22.99

This book describes how Getting Better BitE by BitE, a self-help manual for those who are now ready to work at giving up being bulimic, can be used as part of guided self care.
Available from Amazon

Getting Better BitE by BitE: Survival Kit for sufferers of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders
by Ulrike Schmidt and Janet Treasure
Is available from the beat Bookshop

Handbook of Eating Disorders – Treatment, Theory and Research, 2nd edition (2002)
Editors: Janet Treasure, Ulrike Schmidt and Eric van Furth
published by Wiley, 2002, £95

This book critically examines the ideas, models and hypotheses that have dominated the field of eating disorders for more than three decades. It is a summary of what has been learnt about eating disorders, and a source of ideas of how to progress into the future.
Order online

Neurobiology in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Editors: Hans Wijbrand Hoek, Janet Treasure and Melanie Katzman
published by Wiley, 1998, £200

This book describes the clinical heterogeneity and diagnosis of eating disorders. It presents advances in neurobiological research and also discusses treatments. The aim is to make accessible to clinicians the recent advances in the neurosciences and suggest how to incorporate the data in a treatment setting.
Order online

Animal Models of Disorders of Eating Behaviour and Body Composition
Editors: John B Owen, Janet Treasure, David Collier
published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, £92.50

This book contains a series of scientific articles written by renowned authors in their respective fields, describing normal and pathological aspects of feeding behaviour in a wide range of animals. The book discusses what is known about the biological and evolutionary underpinnings of these phenomena.
Available from Amazon

Overcoming Bulimia
is a CD Rom programme based on cognitive behaviour therapy. The programme was written by Dr Chris Williams, an experienced CBT practitioner from the University of Glasgow, who has a special interest in eating disorders. It was recently updated in collaboration with Professor Ulrike Schmidt in the Section of Eating Disorders at the IoP. Overcoming Bulimia is available from Calipso, a company that produces mental health training materials for healthcare professions and self materials for use with patients.
www.calipso.co.uk

Websites with resources and information

The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Eating Disorders Special Interest Group.
Information and resources for professionals.

National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
a service of the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
The NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance disorders. It includes details of motivational interviewing and motivational enhancement.

The Eating Disorders Arena
provides professionals, researchers and students with information on eating disorders books produced by Psychology Press, Routledge and Guilford Press.

Caring about Carers
is a government website aimed at professionals who work with carers and contains guidance and regulations affecting carers.

Motivational Interviewing
is a website offering resources for clinicians, researchers and trainers. It features information about Motivational Interviewing for eating disorders written by Janet Treasure, Ulrike Schmidt and Gill Todd from the Section of Eating Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry/Eating Disorders Unit at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

DAWBA: Information for researchers and clinicians about the Development and Well-Being Assessment (YouthinMind)
The DAWBA is a package of interviews, questionnaires and rating techniques designed to generate ICD-10 and DSM-IV psychiatric diagnoses on 5-17 year olds. The DAWBA primarily focuses on the common emotional, behavioural and hyperactivity disorders. Clinical raters can additionally diagnose eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa.

Association for the Study of Obesity
The UK-based organisation is dedicated to the understanding and treatment of obesity. It offers a forum for sharing of scientific expertise and clinical practice through scientific and educational meetings.