Body awareness therapy in teenage anorexia nervosa: outcome after 2 years
✍ Scribed by Ulf Wallin; Per Kronovall; Marie-Louise Majewski
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 92 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1072-4133
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✦ Synopsis
Objective: To evaluate the effect of Body Awareness Therapy (BAT), a speci®c treatment method for dealing with body-image disturbances, in anorexia nervosa in the young patient.
Methods: A consecutive group of patients receiving family therapy was randomly assigned to Body Awareness Therapy. The patients were examined at treatment start and at 2-year follow-up. The eating disorder symptoms were evaluated with the Global Clinical Score, Ch-EAT and EDI. The body-image disturbances were examined with the Visual Size Estimation technique.
Results: We found no differences in the overall treatment results between the patients that received BAT compared with the patients who only received family therapy. The patients who received BAT, and had a disturbance in estimated body size, improved in their body image.
Discussion: Body Awareness Therapy did not have an effect on the overall outcome of anorexia nervosa, but had a normalizing effect on the distorted body image.