Thursday 7 October 2010

Whole family therapy for anorexic teens

A study in the Archives of General Psychiatry journal states that whole family therapy rather than therapy centred on the anorexic teenager alone, may be more effective in the long term. The model of treatment shifts away from past treatments which insinuated parents were to blame for their children's eating disorders. Better results were established at the six month and twelve month intervals.

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