Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies for Eating Disorders

Year
4
Academic year
2020-2021
Code
02018290
Subject Area
Psychology
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
ECTS Credits
4.0
Type
Elective
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

  It is strongly recommended that students have previously obtained approval to the following subjects: Psychopathology I, Psychopathology II, Behaviour Modification and Behavioural and Cognitive Models.

Teaching Methods

In the theoretical classes, the main method is based on lectures accompanied by clinical cases reports. In practical classes, several clinical cases will be presented which will allow students to learn and train their clinical evaluation and intervention competencies.Role-play activities with discussions about clinical issues will be regular.The articulation between theoretical and practical classes will allow students to get an accurate idea of the cognitive-behavioural interventions in body image and eating-related problems,developing assessment,formulation,and intervention skills.

Learning Outcomes

The objectives of this curricular unit are:

(1) Contribute to a greater understanding of feeding and eating disorders, namely etiology, classification, diagnosis and clinical features;

(2) To inform about Cognitive Behavioural Models in eating disorders;

(3) Develop skills on clinical assessment, diagnosis, conceptualization of clinical cases and intervention strategies in these clinical conditions.

 

Theoretical skills:

1. To know clinical features, and diagnostic criterion of feeding and eating disorders;

2. To promote reflection about the diagnostic issues in eating disorders;

3. To know the theoretical assumptions underlying the Cognitive-Behavioural Models to understand and treat body image disturbance and eating disorders;

4. To know new approaches for eating psychopathology based on the third-generation behaviour therapy models;

 

Practical skills:

Developing and training of clinical skills for assessment, clinical formulation and interventions for eating disorder pathology;

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Feeding and Eating Disorders:

1. Classification and diagnosis according to DSM-5 criteria and the transdiagnostic approach for eating psychopathology;

2. Psychopathological and clinical features;

3. Epidemiology: The incidence and prevalence of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating and other eating disorder conditions;

4. Assessment of body image and eating-related psychopathology: Methodology and the adequacy of different assessment approaches;

5. Cognitive-Behavioural approaches to eating disorders: Biological, familial, and psychosocial factors in the development and maintenance of eating pathology;

6. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for eating disorders;

7. Evolutionary approaches to eating psychopathology based on evolutionary and social mentalities models;

8. New intervention approaches derived from the third wave of cognitive-behavioural models to eating psychopathology: Principles and intervention strategies.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Two written test based on theoretical and practical contents; Final mark = 1st evaluation (7.5 points/37.5%) + second evaluation (12.5 points/62.5%): 100.0%

Bibliography

Fairburn, C.(2008). Cognitive behavior therapy and eating disorders. New York: Guilford Press.

Garner, D. & Garfinkel, P.(1997). Handbook of treatment for eating disorders. New York: Guilford Press.

Goss, K., & Allan, S.(2010). Compassion focused therapy for eating disorders. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 3, 141–158. doi:10.1521/ijct.2010.3.2.141.

Pinto-Gouveia, J., Ferreira, C., & Duarte, C. (2014). Thinness in the pursuit for social safe- ness: An integrative model of social rank mentality to explain eating psychopathology. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 21, 154–165. doi:10.1002/ cpp.1820.

Ferreira, C., Pinto-Gouveia, J., & Duarte, C.(2013). Self-compassion in the face of shame and body image dissatisfaction: Implications for eating disorders. Eating Behaviors, 14, 207–210. doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2013.01.005.

Stice, E.(2002). Risk and maintenance factors for eating pathology: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 825-848. doi:10.1037//0033-2909.128.