The release last week of the long-awaited results from a five-year multi-site study confirmed what many of us already knew: family-based treatment for anorexia works. In a controlled randomized study, FBT worked better than traditional individual-based psychotherapy: More than half the patients getting FBT recovered, compared with less than a quarter of those getting the other treatment. And far fewer in the FBT cohort relapsed.
This is great news. There's more work to be done, of course; a 50 percent recovery rate is not acceptable. But it's so much better than the usual statistics: people with anorexia stay sick for five to seven years, and only about a third recover.
Read more here on my Psychology Today blog.
3 comments:
Huzzah! Great study and I'm glad it's getting attention.
Hi Harriet.
Have you watched/heard about the new TV series on E! TV---"What's Eating YOu: True Stories of Food, Fear and Obsession"? Yikes! Saw the first episode, and my mama-bear response was, "My kid ain't watch'n this!" Trigger, Trigger. I was horrified.
R
I haven't. I don't think I could take it. Blech.
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