A multi-family group day treatment programme for adolescent eating disorder

✍ Scribed by Christopher Dare; Ivan Eisler

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 156 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1072-4133
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0968(200002)8:1<4::aid-erv330>3.0.co;2-p

✦ Synopsis

We describe a new treatment for the outpatient management of disabling eating disorder in adolescents. The pilot programme has thus far treated 14 adolescents, half with anorexia nervosa and half with bulimia. Most of the young people had been previously admitted or the current referral was for admission. None of the patients has subsequently had to be taken into an inpatient service and the preliminary results suggest that the programme may be bene®cial. The programme has elicited a very positive response from the patients and their families. For the professionals involved, the experience of participating in the multi-family group treatment has been unusual and powerful and the training opportunities provided by it seem rather unique. This has led us to make this preliminary communication. We describe the context and structure of the programme and give some details of the patients so far treated.