Guidelines for Consultation

In order to met the requirements for the Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS) credential you must accrue a minimum of 24 hours of consultation from an Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Consultant (CEDS-C).

• Consultation is an opportunity to build self- awareness, skills, and competencies improving quality of care for clients.
• Applicants can choose the CEDS-C they would like to work with, iaedp does not determine the who, how, when or potential cost of consultation.
• A CEDS applicant, consultee, must enter into an agreement with a CEDS-C defining a start and end date for consultation before beginning to accrue eating disorder experience hours (as of October 2023). If experience hours are accrued outside of the consultant/consultee agreement dates these hours will not count towards the required 2500 hours of eating disorder specific experience.
• If there is more than one consultation agreement, agreement must clarify which hours will be attributed to each agreement and CEDS-C in addition to dates of agreement. Hours cannot be counted twice.
• Experience hours cannot be gained before the applicant is a licensed provider or in fewer than 2 years or 24 months.

Breakdown of required 2500 experience hours:

• 2000 hours direct client/patient service and education
  • face-to-face interaction with clients, case conceptualization, team coordination of care and treatment documentation
• 150 hours indirect client service
  • includes 24 hours of consultation, case-based learning/teaching, community presentation, program development, teaching on eating disorder topics, coursework and readings, writings, case study, journal clubs.
• Remaining 350 experience hours can be either direct or indirect
  
• A minimum of 12 consultations hours must be provided individually (1-2 consultees present)

Consultants are responsible for:

• Completing Consultant portion of CEDS application
• Confirming number of individual and group consultation hours
• Confirming direct and indirect experience hours
• Attesting to applicant’s strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations for certification

Updated Jan 2024