Shandon Therapy Centre

Individuals and Families living with Eating Distress in Cork

	Mission Statement
	What is Eating Distress?
	Recovery
	Family and eating distress

Mission Statement

We aim to provide a multi-disciplinary service for individuals and their families living with eating distress. The purpose of this aim will be to lead the person with eating distress through to full recovery. Understanding of full recovery for the Shandon Therapy Centre team is not only regaining normal weight, and normal eating behaviour, it is more so a healing process that allows the person to develop their full mental, physical, emotional and spiritual potential.

Aims and Objectives

Shandon Therapy Centre aims to remain cognizant at all times that eating distress is on a spectrum between anorexia at one end and obesity on the other.
To provide a therapeutic treatment service to individuals and their families living with eating distress.
To guide people with eating distress to full recovery.
To include parents and family in the therapeutic process towards full recovery from eating distress.
To provide early intervention in the life of the person with eating distress.
To provide a social care service to individuals and their families living with eating distress.
To provide a psycho education service to the public so as to reduce the incidence and prevalence of eating distress.
To provide liaison with the media regarding eating distress.
To promote and pursue research to advance understanding of eating distress, and to evaluate service provision.
To compose a policy on evidence based practice to monitor, audit, and evaluate services in order to ensure delivery of high quality care.
To ensure that the services offered are adequate, locally and financially accessible and equitable.
To adhere in our work to the code of ethics and practice of the Family Therapy Association of Ireland and the Irish Association of Psychotherapy.

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