Too many children and young people struggling with eating difficulties fall through the cracks—unable to access specialist eating disorder services yet lacking the support they need within generic CAMHS teams. Without timely intervention, these young people face significant risks to their physical and mental health.
This conference shines a light on the urgent need to identify and support those who do not meet the criteria for specialist services but still require expert care. We will explore practical strategies to equip professionals with the knowledge and confidence to intervene early, ensuring no young person is left without the help they need.
Join us as we work to close this gap, prevent harm, and create a more inclusive and responsive system of care.
Booking
Sign up at this link or on the Book Now button at the top of the screen, and complete the form that follows. You’ll then receive an email confirmation and a link to the webinar, plus we’ll send you a calendar reminder nearer the time. Delegates will have exclusive access to recordings for 90 days after the event, together with slides. Plus you will get a personalised CPD certificate via email.
- ACAMH Members MUST login to book onto the webinar in order to access this webinar and get a CPD certificate
- Non-members this is a great time to join ACAMH, take a look at what we have to offer, and make the saving on these sessions
EARLY BIRD £5 for ACAMH Members (Print, Online, Concession) Join now and save (£10 from 31/07/25)
EARLY BIRD £10 ACAMH Learn Account holders (£20 from 31/07/25)
EARLY BIRD £10 Non Members (£20 from 31/07/25)
£5 ACAMH Undergraduate/Postgraduate Members
Low Income Countries Members FREE
Who should attend
This conference is designed for anyone who works with children and young people. It is particularly suitable for professionals in health (including primary, secondary, and tertiary care), education, social care, and youth services.
Delegates will gain a better understanding of how to recognise and support a variety of eating difficulties in children and young people that are often overlooked by specialist eating disorder services. Additionally, attendees will have the opportunity to network with other professionals in the field.
The event will consist of half a day of presentations, followed by a Q&A panel where delegates can ask questions and engage further.
About the talks
Dr. Rachel Bryant-Waugh – Looking beyond anorexia and bulimia nervosa: evidence-informed approaches to service provision for a wider range of eating disorder and disordered eating presentations
Eating disorder (ED) services for young people have until now typically focussed on providing treatment for anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). More recently, service considerations have also included how best to meet the needs of those with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), with variable progress on implementation. However, there are many additional challenges to the current situation, with the needs of young people with some of the less well-known EDs and those developing ‘disordered eating’ far from always being adequately met.
Many changes in our social and clinical context contribute to a pressing need to re-evaluate our practice and service offer for young people struggling with eating. Recent updates to diagnostic classification in ICD-11, changes in clinical presentations, revisions to NHS guidance on the children and young people’s ED pathway, the broader shift towards person-centred and integrated care, and a greater emphasis on reasonable adjustments when working across diagnoses, are all relevant in this respect.
Dr Bryant-Waugh will provide an overview of the currently less-well served EDs (including Binge Eating Disorder, Rumination Disorder, and Pica), and outline current thinking on ‘other specified’ and ‘unspecified’ presentations. We will explore differentiations between ‘disordered eating’ and ‘sub-clinical’ presentations and what is currently in place. Current understanding of assessment, treatment and outcomes will be summarised, alongside evidence-informed guidance on specific interventions and pathways of care. The aim will be to provide practical tips and strategies that might help to improving our collective service offer to this wider group of young people.
Learning outcomes
- To acquire updated knowledge about currently less well served eating disorder presentations
Ursula Philpot – Managing Disordered Eating in Community Mental Health Settings
Disordered eating is an umbrella term encompassing a wide spectrum of eating-related difficulties, including both formally diagnosed eating disorders and subclinical or atypical patterns that significantly impact an individual’s physical and psychological health. Each presentation is unique, necessitating a nuanced, personalised approach to assessment and intervention. This talk will explore both typical and atypical or mixed disordered eating presentations commonly encountered by multidisciplinary teams in clinical practice. It will highlight the critical importance of comprehensive, accurate assessment and the value of formulation-driven care planning to tailor interventions effectively from the outset. The role of neurodiversity—such as autism and ADHD—and experiences of trauma will also be explored, as these factors often influence the development, maintenance, and expression of disordered eating behaviours. Various therapeutic approaches will be discussed, recognising that different presentations may require different strategies and approaches including adaptations for neurodivergent individuals. Special attention will be given to the complexity of working with mixed presentations, where symptoms may not fit neatly into diagnostic criteria, posing additional treatment challenges. The session will also include signposting to key clinical resources, tools, and services to support.
Learning outcomes
- Increase awareness and understanding of the spectrum of disordered eating presentations, including both typical and atypical/mixed cases.
- Enhance practitioner confidence in conducting effective assessments and developing formulation-driven care plans tailored to individual needs.
- Explore the influence of neurodiversity and trauma on the presentation and treatment of disordered eating, and identify ways to adapt care accordingly.
- Introduce a range of therapeutic and dietetic approaches and resources, with guidance on selecting appropriate interventions and signposting for further support.
Programme
09:00 – 09:15 Registration
09:15 – 09:25 Welcome, Introduction by the Chair
09:30 – 11:00 – Dr. Rachel Bryant-Waugh – Looking beyond anorexia and bulimia nervosa: evidence-informed approaches to service provision for a wider range of eating disorder and disordered eating presentations
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:15 Ursula Philpot – Managing Disordered Eating in Community Mental Health Settings
12:15 – 12:45 Panel discussion
12:45 – 13:00 Final reflections/comments by Chair and close
About the speakers
Dr. Rachel Bryant-Waugh
Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Visiting Senior Lecturer, Kings College London
Rachel is an experienced eating disorders clinician and researcher, based at the Maudsley and Kings College London. She is recognised internationally as a leading expert, with a particular interest in currently less well understood eating disorder presentations. She served on both the DSM-5 and ICD-11 diagnostic revision workgroups and continues to play an active role in supporting and implementing national guidance on eating disorders in young people. She has won national and international awards for her contributions. Rachel has a longstanding interest in working with autistic people with eating disorders and is passionate about learning from people with lived experience.
Ursula Philpot
Senior Lecturer and Eating Disorders Course Lead. Clinical Lead (Eating Disorders) NHS England (North East and Yorkshire)
Ursula is a consultant dietician and senior lecturer specialising in eating disorders, disordered eating, mental health, and autism. She has a clinic for eating problems in Leeds and works in complex mental health in Bradford. Ursula is a clinical lead for children and young people’s Mental Health in Yorkshire with NHS England. She is especially interested in producing guidelines, pathways, and consensus statement within the area of eating disorders and mental health. Recent resource productions includes disordered eating presentations ADHD, PAWS and RISH.
Booking
Sign up at this link or on the Book Now button at the top of the screen, and complete the form that follows. You’ll then receive an email confirmation and a link to the webinar, plus we’ll send you a calendar reminder nearer the time. Delegates will have exclusive access to recordings for 90 days after the event, together with slides. Plus you will get a personalised CPD certificate via email.
- ACAMH Members MUST login to book onto the webinar in order to access this webinar and get a CPD certificate
- Non-members this is a great time to join ACAMH, take a look at what we have to offer, and make the saving on these sessions
EARLY BIRD £5 for ACAMH Members (Print, Online, Concession) Join now and save (£10 from 31/07/25)
EARLY BIRD £10 ACAMH Learn Account holders (£20 from 31/07/25)
EARLY BIRD £10 Non Members (£20 from 31/07/25)
£5 ACAMH Undergraduate/Postgraduate Members
Low Income Countries Members FREE