iaedp Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS)-clinical foundations study plan
CEDS · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 8 hours per week
Assess the eating pattern, its context, and current risk
Characterize behaviors, context, trajectory and differential questions.
Separate screening, diagnostic formulation and immediate risk.
Your checkpoint
A formulation worksheet distinguishing reports, observations and missing evidence.
Match treatment to the formulation and monitor meaningful change
Link interventions to maintaining processes and goals.
Compare insight, attendance and actual behavioral or functional change.
Your checkpoint
A treatment-rationale map and outcome-review example.
Recognize medical risk and coordinate timely assessment & Nutritional assessment and rehabilitation within coordinated care
Recognize relevant medical concerns and professional roles.
Distinguish nutrition adequacy, flexibility, medical restrictions and access barriers.
Your checkpoint
A coordination map with medical-response and nutrition-review responsibilities.
Development, caregivers, growth, and collaborative support & Protect autonomy, access, confidentiality, and professional boundaries
Review growth, development, caregiver support and school transitions.
Examine consent, confidentiality, stigma, access and scope without invented legal rules.
Your checkpoint
A developmentally informed support plan with identified framework questions.
Medication roles, evidence, monitoring, and prescribing boundaries & Integrate the eating disorder with other clinical needs
Verify indication and age-specific claims through authoritative sources.
Integrate overlapping medical and psychiatric needs without assuming a universal sequence.
Your checkpoint
A role-and-evidence matrix identifying drug facts separately from clinical decisions.
Choose a setting that can safely deliver the required treatment
Match actual capabilities to combined needs.
Design a confirmed transition and a practical escalation process.
Your checkpoint
A handoff checklist with unresolved concerns and accountable follow-up.
Assess the eating pattern, its context, and current risk & Match treatment to the formulation and monitor meaningful change & Protect autonomy, access, confidentiality, and professional boundaries & Recognize medical risk and coordinate timely assessment & Nutritional assessment and rehabilitation within coordinated care & Development, caregivers, growth, and collaborative support & Medication roles, evidence, monitoring, and prescribing boundaries & Integrate the eating disorder with other clinical needs & Choose a setting that can safely deliver the required treatment
Answer integrated cases before viewing the model responses.
Explain competing choices and identify missing patient information.
Your checkpoint
Case responses and a categorized error log.
Assess the eating pattern, its context, and current risk & Match treatment to the formulation and monitor meaningful change & Protect autonomy, access, confidentiality, and professional boundaries & Recognize medical risk and coordinate timely assessment & Nutritional assessment and rehabilitation within coordinated care & Development, caregivers, growth, and collaborative support & Medication roles, evidence, monitoring, and prescribing boundaries & Integrate the eating disorder with other clinical needs & Choose a setting that can safely deliver the required treatment
Complete mixed practice without reading the key first.
Revisit medical, formulation, ethics and role errors.
Verify current credential and examination instructions directly if applying.
Your checkpoint
A learning review, with unresolved questions for qualified consultation rather than a claim of clinical authorization.
Milestones
Week 2: Explain why an intervention fits a particular maintaining process.
Week 5: Recognize risk and role boundaries without a universal body-size or medication shortcut.
Week 8: Coordinate assessment, treatment, support and transitions while acknowledging vignette limits.