We will be presenting an overview of our work, including outcomes, learning points and specially developed resources for clinicians and teams of health professionals working in this area.

The PEACE Pathway is an innovative Pathway for Eating disorders and Autism developed from Clinical Experience. Our research suggests that around a third of people with an eating disorder may be autistic, or present with high autistic traits. Whilst autistic people with eating disorders require adapted treatments, prior to this pathway there was no systematic guidance or support for clinicians working with this population.

With the PEACE Pathway, we have introduced a specialised treatment track for autistic people, and people with high autistic traits, in our national eating disorder service in South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. This has included regular support and supervision for clinicians, the provision of training in recognising and adapting treatments around autism, and an autism assessment pathway for individuals with high features but no prior diagnosis.

We hope that attendees will be able to take some of our experience and ideas back to their clinic and be interested in developing collaboration with our team.

If interested, you are welcome to purchase Professor Kate Tchanturia’s book Supporting Autistic People with Eating Disorders: A Guide to Adapting Treatment and Supporting Recovery.

Please see below draft programme.

10:00: Welcome – PEACE pathway time for the implementation?

Professor Kate Tchanturia, Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Lead on PEACE Pathway – King’s College London

10:25: Sensory Landscape of Eating Disorders Inpatient Care

Dr Dimitri Chubinidze, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, King's College London and Honorary Researcher, SLaM

10:45: Understanding patient needs: using the PEACE screener toolbox?

Jo Zhuo Li, PhD candidate/PEACE researcher

11:05: Broadening the Scope: Neurodivergence in Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder

Lauren Makin, NIHR Maudsley BRC PhD candidate at King’s College London

11:25: Case Study

Dr Claire Baillie, Senior Psychologist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

11:45: Question & Answer

12.00: Lunch

Autism friendly Adaptations:

12:45: How we can implement new pathway in the whole service

Dr Karina Allen, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and

Visiting Senior Lecturer, King’s College London

13:05: Adaptation for nutritional rehabilitation

Caroline Pimblett, Lead Dietitian: Outpatients and Day Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

13:25: Tree of life thinking about Bigger picture

Elisa Zesch, Adia Meyer, Assistant Psychologists, National ED service South London & Maudsley NHS Trust

13.55: Break

Lived experience:

14:05: Working with family carers of people with autism and eating disorders on the PEACE Pathway

Madeleine Oakley, Psychotherapist/PEACE Carers Champion

14:25: Working with peer supporters with lived experience

Catherine Perry, Peer Support Pathway Lead/Specialist CBT Therapist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

14.45: Break

Dissemination of PEACE pathway:

14.55 Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West (BOB) project

Dr Joanna Holliday, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

15.15 The Eating Disorders and Autism Collaborative EDAC

Dr Fiona Duffy, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer, Edinburgh University

15.35-15.50 Discussion and close

Professor Kate Tchanturia, Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Lead on PEACE Pathway – King’s College London