The Cleveland Center for Eating Disorders offers eating disorder clinical studies and DBT and CBT techniques professional training right here in our center. We encourage you to Contact Us to learn more.
CCED is committed to educating and training clinical and medical professionals on effective eating-disorder treatment, while providing the most up-to-date treatments for our patients by conducting clinical research right here in our center.
DBT and CBT Techniques Professional Training
We partner with the region’s universities, including Kent State, Cleveland State, Case Western Reserve and John Carroll, among others, to offer internships for students (LPCs, LSWs and PhDs). We are committed to helping student professionals grow and learn about empirically founded eating disorder treatments, such as CBT, DBT and FBT. We are invested in education and supervision, and provide multiple learning opportunities each week (individual and group supervision, didactics). Here at CCED, we provide rigorous training in a caring and supportive environment.
In addition, we offer continuing education for practicing doctors from the region’s health-care centers, such as University Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic. Physicians will spend a day with us to observe our therapy sessions and get an inside look at our center.
On average, more than 25 medical professionals rotate through our center each year.
Eating Disorder Clinical Studies
As a privately owned center, we conduct primary research through the permission of our patients to offer the most effective treatments for individuals suffering from an eating disorder.
Our treatment philosophy lends itself to our research, which is based on taking empirically founded treatments and determining whether or not applying them in the real world is effective. We also measure how standard evidence-based treatments may be effectively adapted to higher levels of care, similar to the intensive care structure our center offers patients.
If a patient chooses to participate in our research, nothing about their treatment program changes — patients are treated in the same way as those that don’t participate. First, we evaluate the patient during their initial visit to use their data as a benchmark. From there, we can monitor the patient’s progress from week to week. In some cases, with permission, the patient’s data is published in reports.