Training & Resources

Isis provides both training and resources for workers with an interest in professional development in the area of body image and eating issues.

Training for Workers

Isis offers two key training options:
1. Student placement
2. Training events

Quick link: Resources for workers

1. Student placements

Internship opportunities are available periodically for students with a special interest in body image and eating issues. Isis offers a variety of tasks that students may take on, including:

Organisation of social functions, workshops or events
Assistance with one-off projects
Policy development
Telephone counselling
Face-to-Face counselling
Group Work
Research
Literature Reviews
School Based Projects
Community Education

Please contact us for further information about student placements.

2. Training events

Isis has a mailing list for people interested in hearing about upcoming training and professional development opportunities, as well as our general newsletter mailing list.

Please contact us to request to be on our professional development mailing list.

Resources for workers

Free Isis info pack

A collection of articles and guides focusing on eating issues.
download (or contact us for post)

Isis general brochure

Our general brochure - (2-fold to DL) outlining Isis’ philosophy and services.
Easy for rack display, posting to clients and offering in consultations.
download (or contact us for post)

Isis Men’s Project brochure

(2-fold to DL) outlining Isis’ pilot project to increase understanding and assist men with eating issues more effectively.
Easy for rack display, posting to clients and offering in consultations.
download (or contact us for post)

Isis access borrowing library

For those who are able to visit our centre (our address), we have a free borrowing library open to the general public. Our collection of books and journals cover topics including: eating issues, body image, youth, self-esteem, feminism, dealing with abuse, nutrition, and more.

Isis documents & publications

Creative Group Work Strategies for Women with Eating Issues
Compilation of creative arts strategies for workers in the health and social welfare professions, particularly those who engage in group work and counselling with women.
(available in Isis' online shop soon)

Understanding Eating Issues: A Feminist Perspective - Documentation of a two-day workshop
Includes linking theory and analysis with practice and exploring individual work and group work with young women with eating issues.
(available in Isis' online shop soon)

Setting The Table Straight - a resource manual for working with women with eating issues
From a feminist perspective, this manual provides a combination of practice insights from experience of working with women with eating issues, literature in the field, and creative arts strategies used in group work and individual counselling.
(available in Isis' online shop soon)

Bite Me - Information About Eating Issues For Young Women  
Audio CD with an accompanying booklet for young women aged 12-17 years providing information about eating issues, includes women who have a personal experience of an eating issue as well as young women from a high school in the development and design of the storyline, script and artwork.
(available in Isis' online shop soon)

Free articles

Hollands, Karen – ‘The cause and effect of eating issues’
download available soon
Gilmore, Jenny – ‘Young Women and Eating Issues: A Feminist Perspective’
download available soon

Other resources - eating issues & body image

LoBue, Andrea & Marcus, Marsea- ‘The Don’t Diet – Live it! Workbook - Healing food weight and body issues’
(available in Isis' online shop soon)