Premium
You can take it with you: Delivering family‐based treatment for teen eating disorders in the home setting
Author(s) -
Goldschmidt Andrea,
Tortolani Christina
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30347
Subject(s) - eating disorders , bulimia nervosa , anorexia nervosa , psychiatry , vomiting , anorexia , binge eating , psychology , binge eating disorder , affect (linguistics) , disordered eating , medicine , clinical psychology , communication
Eating disorders are devastating psychiatric illnesses with potentially fatal medical consequences. Anorexia nervosa (AN) and related disorders (e.g., avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder) are characterized by a failure to make developmentally appropriate gains in body weight and restrictive eating behavior, with or without co‐occurring body image disturbance. Bulimia nervosa (BN) involves recurrent episodes of binge eating (i.e., eating a large amount of food accompanied by a sense of loss of control while eating) and compensatory behaviors (e.g., self‐induced vomiting, laxative abuse), along with body image disturbance. Collectively, these disorders affect at least 5@ of adolescents in the community, impede quality of life, and lead to increased mortality due to high rates of suicidality, self‐injurious behaviors, and physical health complications.