Webinar for Mental Health Clinicians:

Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment:

Evidence for What Works

Webinar Summary

Join internationally recognised researcher and clinician Professor Tracey Wade for a practical and evidence-based webinar focused on the assessment and treatment of eating disorders.


Designed for psychologists, paediatricians, dietitians, psychiatrists, counsellors, and other mental health professionals, this session will explore what the research tells us about effective approaches to both assessment and treatment. Professor Wade will offer guidance on maximising good outcomes by applying evidence-based strategies in clinical settings.


A key focus will be on the ED-15, a brief and effective tool for sessional outcome monitoring in eating disorder treatment. Attendees will gain practical insights into integrating this measure to support better outcomes.

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Webinar Highlights

  • Explore the role of screening tools and when to use them.
  • Gain an informed overview of assessment strategies across the spectrum of eating disorders.
  • Learn how to integrate motivational enhancement techniques into assessment.
  • Monitor treatment over time using the ED-15 outcome measure.
  • Understand how linking assessment to treatment improves outcomes.
  • Review the evidence base for providing effective treatment across various modalities, and how to collect practice-based evidence through outcome monitoring.

Professor Tracey Wade

Professor Tracey Wade has worked as a clinician in eating disorders for 30 years. Her current research interests focus on the aetiology, prevention, and treatment of eating disorders, with a strong emphasis on translating research into real-world settings to improve outcomes in body image and eating disorder care.

She has co-written four therapy books and has over 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals. In recognition of her contributions, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2015 and was made an Inaugural Honorary Fellow of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy in 2016.

From 2017 to 2018, Professor Wade served as President of the Eating Disorder Research Society. She was also a member of the Million Minds Expert Advisory Panel between 2018 and 2020. Currently, she is a Senior Associate Editor for the International Journal of Eating Disorders.

In 2025, she was honoured with two prestigious awards: the Academy of Eating Disorders Leadership Award in Research and the Australia & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders (ANZAED) Lifetime Achievement Award.

Professor Wade is the Director of the Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders (FUSED) and the Blackbird Research Initiative. She also serves on the National Eating Disorders Collaboration steering committee, commissioned by the Federal Government to guide policy development in eating disorder prevention and treatment.

She currently holds an NHMRC Investigator Grant (2024–2028), supporting the development and testing of transdiagnostic approaches to early intervention for eating disorders in youth.

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