Adolescents with anorexia nervosa, irrespective of the duration of their illness, can derive similar benefits from intensive enhanced cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Treatment studies in adolescents with anorexia typically involve patients with less than 3 years of illness.
Enhanced cognitive-behavioral therapy is a specialized psychological transdiagnostic treatment for all forms of eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge, and other similar states. CBT-E was developed as an outpatient treatment for adults but then adapted by my team for adolescents and intensive care settings.
Intensive maintains all the main strategies and procedures of outpatient CBT-E, which are delivered in both individual sessions and in a group format, but with three main features that distinguish it from the outpatient-based version. First, the treatment is delivered by a non-eclectic multidisciplinary team comprising physicians, psychologists, dieticians, and nurses, all fully trained in CBT-E.
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