Pupil mental health: eating disorders

Before you begin this course, we'd recommend that you take our broader eLearning course on understanding pupil mental health and wellbeing.

By the end of this 45-minute course, you'll be able to:

• Explain what an eating disorder is and recognise the different types
• Spot signs which may suggest a pupil is struggling with an eating disorder
• Report any concerns that you have about a pupil
• Provide support for both pupils who have eating disorders and pupils who do not

You'll finish with a short assessment to test your knowledge and put your learning into practice.

With thanks to the following experts for their help with this course:

• Ann Marie Christian, an independent safeguarding consultant, trouble shooter, author and trainer. She provides consultancy for DSLs, heads, senior leaders and governors. She has experience in frontline and managerial child protection matters including school improvement, casework and training
• Deanne Jade, owner of the National Centre for Eating Disorders. Deanne is a psychologist who has worked with eating and weight problems for many years. She has a passionate commitment to help people to recover and has taught a generation of counsellors how to treat eating disorders. She belongs to The British Psychological Society, the National Obesity Forum, The Royal Society of Medicine and an All-Party Parliamentary Group for Obesity. She also assisted the development of treatment guidelines for eating disorders and obesity by The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
• Sara Alston, a practising SENCO teacher and an education consultant and trainer at SEA Inclusion & Safeguarding, specialising in special educational needs and safeguarding