Change in expressed emotion and treatment outcome in adolescent anorexia nervosa

Depression and treatment outcome in anorexia nervosa.

The aim of this study was to compare the immediate and long-term effect of a cognitive-behavior therapy program for anorexia nervosa inpatients with and without concomitant Major Depressive Episodes (MDE). The program has been adapted from the "enhanced" form of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) for eating disorders. Sixty-three consecutive underweight adult patients with severe eating disorder ...

Adolescent-onset anorexia nervosa: 18-year outcome.

BACKGROUND The long-term outcome of anorexia nervosa is insufficiently researched. AIMS To study prospectively the long-term outcome and prognostic factors in a representative sample of people with teenage-onset anorexia nervosa. METHOD Fifty-one people with anorexia nervosa, recruited by community screening and with a mean age at onset of 14 years were compared with 51 matched comparison i...

Treatment and outcome of anorexia nervosa.

Five years ago one of us (W. S.) developed a new method of treatment of anorexia nervosa with large doses of chlor-promazine combined with a modified insulin regimen, and we issued preliminary reports on it (Dally and Sargant, 1960). This combined treatment appeared to be much more effective in rapidly regaining lost weight than any other treatment previously described and was easy to carry out...

Stages of change, treatment outcome and therapeutic alliance in adult inpatients with chronic anorexia nervosa

BACKGROUND Anorexia nervosa (AN) is associated with high rates of chronicity and relapse risk is a considerable therapeutic challenge in the disorder. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association of stages of change and outcome with a focus on the relapse struggle in the maintenance stage in patients with predominantly chronic AN. Further, therapeutic alliance and stages of c...

Stages of change, treatment outcome and therapeutic alliance in adult inpatients patients with anorexia nervosa