Treatment Outcome in Eating Disorders

Family-based treatment, or FBT, is the leading evidenced based therapy for children and adolescents with an eating disorder.

The treatment is a talking type of treatment that involves the whole family and primarily focuses on helping parents play an active and positive role in helping to restore the patient's weight, then hand control of eating back to the patient as is age appropriate. Toward the end of treatment, it is concerned with developmental issues that may have been impacted by the illness.

Enhanced Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT-E, is a leading evidence based treatment for adolescents and adults with an eating disorder.

The treatment is a one-to-one talking type of treatment that primarily focuses on what is keeping the eating problem going. It is therefore mainly concerned with the present and the future. It addresses the origins of the problem as needed.

Family-based treatment modified for individuals with an ARFID diagnosis is a proposed therapy for treating ARFID.

The treatment is a talking type of treatment that involves the whole family and primarily focuses on helping parents play an active and positive role in helping to restore patient's weight and variety in eating, as needed.

Family-based treatment combined with the Unified Protocol for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents is a proposed therapy for treating ARFID.

The treatment is a talking type of treatment that involves the whole family and begins with focus on psychoeducation, family engagement, and weight gain as needed. The Unified Protocol is then added to build skills that empower the patient to cope with difficult emotions, address avoidance, and increase tolerance of emotions or disgust responses.