Mind the Gap: A Timely Exploration of Clinical Practice, Ethical, Research and Therapeutic Methodology Gaps and their significance in Australian youth eating disorder populations of this modern era. This workshop/presentation serves as a comprehensive learning resource for allied health professionals in clinical practice, research, and researchers, emphasising the importance of addressing these gaps to push the status quo, contribute to the growth and advancement of knowledge in the field, and promote compassionate, client centred models of care in eating disorder treatment, where young people are actively involved in evidence-based support that encourages their own voice and needs, and brings about efficacious outcomes and empowerment.

Three Key Learnings:
1. Are therapy models from the 1980’s truly meeting the complex, modern needs of Gen Z with eating disorders and complex commodities? Looking beyond the idea that eating disorders are just about food and weight.

2. Using a multidimensional, bottom-up case formulation: The need to take a look at the deeper underlying factors that ‘caused’ or led to the emergence of the eating disorder in the first place, and the factors that are maintaining it.

3. How to increase the likelihood of long-term recovery and transformative change for adolescents with eating disorders – The 5 Essential Ingredients.