Patients with anorexia nervosa given intensive CBT-E during the COVID-19 pandemic had significantly improved, albeit to a lesser extent than pre-pandemic patients.
Low self-esteem is common in people with eating disorders but for the treatment is crucial to understand if is secondary to the eating disorder or is independent by it.
A large subgroup of patients with eating disorders are diagnosed with clinical depression, but often the depressive features are secondary to the disorder. Here's why that matters.
Excessive exercising is a major cause of physical and psychosocial impairment in people with eating disorders and needs to be directly addressed by the treatment.
A promising strategy to improve the outcome of eating disorders treatment is the intensification of the evidence-based enhanced cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E)
Dietary restraint is the attempt to restrict what one eats, while dietary restriction is undereating in the physiological sense. Both should be addressed in treatment.
Despite the many similarities between binge eating and substance use disorder, there are fundamental differences between the two conditions. This has implications for the treatment
The overvaluation of shape and weight, according to the cognitive behavioral theory of eating disorders, is the core component of body image disturbance.
Celiac disease and eating disorders interact negatively with each other, and their coexistence increases the likelihood of developing severe complications.
CBT-E designed both for adults and adolescents of all eating disorders has the potential to overcome some issues that plague conventional eating disorder services.
Family-based treatment (FBT) and Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT-E) achieve similar outcomes in the treatment of adolescents with eating disorders, new research finds.
About 20% of individuals with anorexia nervosa go on to develop a lifelong condition. Unfortunately, there is no consensus on how to define and treat these patients.
Overvaluation of shape and weight has been observed in about 20 percent of patients seeking treatment for obesity and was associated with eating psychopathology and poorer quality of life.
The overvaluation of shape and weight and not weight phobia is the core psychopathology of anorexia nervosa, according to the modern transdiagnostic cognitive behavior therapy.
CBT-E for eating disorders is well-suited to be delivered via teletherapy and can address the lack of psychological treatments available caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.