Conferences
Within the financial year EDQ was lucky enough to attend two conferences! One in person and one virtually.
Australian and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders The EDQ team travelled to Adelaide for the Australian and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders (ANZAED) conference in August 2019 to connect with other professionals in the field, present on our programs and develop our professional knowledge around the latest research. EDQ were excited to have their abstracts accepted to talk about two programs, Peer Mentor Program and Community Table.
Belinda Chelius and David Langford presented some pilot research on our program, Community Table – community-based meal support as an innovative program. They described the development and delivery of the program and some preliminary data. Belinda and David reported that there were reductions in eating disorder symptom severity (all subscales) from the pilot data and data would continue to be analysed for future research and continuous improvement.
Eating Issues Practitioners, Emily Stanley-Pickering and Emma Trappett presented on the Peer Mentor Program. They discussed the development and growth of the program, outlined previous research and discussed consistent themes that had emerged through feedback about the PMP program. These dominant themes were support, connection, friendship and communication skills.
International Conference for Eating Disorders EDQ were thrilled to be a sponsor of the International Conference for Eating Disorders Conference (ICED) in June 2020. The theme was Taking a Different Perspective.
EDQ was excited have three abstracts accepted to present on our programs.
ICED runs conferences internationally every year and in 2020 was set to be hosted in Sydney, Australia. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was moved to an online platform which allowed the team to access the latest international research, network with other professionals and present on our own programs including the Peer Mentor Program, Community Table and 10-wk Therapeutic Group.
Community Table,
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Peer Mentor Program and 10-week Therapeutic Group. The data analyses were completed in conjunction with Dr Yvette Miller from QUT.
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