Behavioral family systems therapy for adolescents with anorexia nervosa
- Författare
- Robin AL.
- Titel
- Behavioral family systems therapy for adolescents with anorexia nervosa
- Utgivningsår
- 2003
- Redaktör
- Kazdin AE, Weisz JR,
- Stad
- New York
- Utgivare
- Guildford Press
- Sammanfattning
This chapter describes behavioral family systems therapy (BFST) for adolescents with anorexia nervosa. BFST takes place within the context of multidisciplinary team where the therapist works side by side with a pediatrician and a dietitian, either in the same setting or in different settings with regular communication. There are 5 goals to this multidisciplinary intervention: 1) restore the teenager's health-weight, menses, and effects of starvation; 2) change the teenager's eating habits and attitudes in a more normal direction; 3) correct distorted body images and unrealistic fears of getting fat; 4) change maladaptive family interaction patterns which may be preventing the teenager from achieving the developmental tasks of adolescence; and 5) help the adolescent achieve age-appropriate individuation and autonomy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)