In this episode, MEEDA volunteer and certified Eating Psychology Coach Florence Gillet interviews Dr Riccardo Dalle Grave, Director of the Department of Eating and Weight Disorders at Villa Garda Hospital (Lago Di Garda, Italy).

In collaboration with Professor Christopher Fairburn, Dr Dalle Grave developed an original inpatient treatment for eating disorders based entirely on enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E), an adaptation of CBT-E for adolescents with eating disorders, and the CBT-OB, an innovative treatment combining the behavioral treatment for obesity with strategies and procedures derived by the CBT-E for eating disorders.  

Over the past 20 years, he has published several papers in international peer-reviewed journals (137 included in PubMed), about 100 papers in Italian, 25 books in Italian, and written three books in US. In 1997 he founded the First Certificate of Professional Training in Eating Disorders and Obesity. This one-year course, that is now at the 19th cohort, trains medical doctors, psychologists, and dietitians in cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders and obesity. He provides expert supervision for clinical services in Europe, the USA, Australia, and the U.A.E.

Together, Florence and Dr Dalle Grave discuss about

1/ what is CBT-E and what makes CBT E the gold standard for ED treatments in adults?

2/ CBT-E : 

a)       who can benefit from it, 

b)      who is allowed to deliver it

c)       treatment modalities (how long, how often, etc)

3/ Differences between Family Based Therapy and CBT-E for adolescents

4/ the most crucial support parents can provide if they have an adolescent being treated with CBT-E

5/ Differences between the Focused and Broad version of CBT-E and who needs what

6/ Guided self-help for binge eating disorder, as a streamlined form of CBT-E 

7/ If someone doesn’t have access to CBT-E where they are, what could be a Plan B option for treatment

To know more about CBT-E for patients, professionals and lay people, please visit www.cbte.co: https://www.cbte.co/

Consider reading Dr Dalle Grave and Carine El Khazen's book:  Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Young people with Eating Disorders.

Or understand how to get trained in CBT-E via https://www.credo-oxford.com/#topic0

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