Eating disorders are a group of complex mental health conditions that involve disturbances in eating behaviors, body image, and self-esteem. They include anorexia nervosa, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), binge-eating [...]
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When it comes to eating disorders, it’s important to know who is most at risk for struggling with one. There’s a wide variety of things that can increase the chances [...]
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Binge eating disorder (BED) has only recently gained recognition as an official diagnosis in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic Statistical Manual, 5th Edition (DSM-V). According to the National Eating Disorder [...]
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Dr. Mark Gold’s Research You Can Use Research-to-date supports the findings that transgender individuals are more likely to be diagnosed with an eating disorder than the cisgender population. A recent [...]
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To summarize, I want to describe a couple of case examples that will help to bring these two behavioral treatment strategies, Exposure-Based Treatment and Behavioral Activation Therapy, to life. These [...]
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As I mentioned before, behavioral activation is a very effective treatment for depression and other related mood problems. Now, let’s talk about why we know that behavioral activation is a [...]
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Behavioral Activation Treatment for Eating Disorders – Part I We’ve discussed Exposure Therapy for eating disorders. Now, let’s move to a second behavioral therapy intervention known as Behavioral Activation Overview of Behavioral [...]
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Exposure-Based Therapy & Eating Disorders – Exposure Hierarchy Examples & Coaching Techniques for Eating Disorders in Males Let’s discuss a few examples of what a couple of hierarchies might look like. [...]
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Exposure-Based Therapy & Eating Disorders – Functional Assessment Below are a few different treatment steps that we use in implementing Exposure-Based Therapy. First is the Functional Assessment. This is very [...]
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Exposure-Based Therapy & Eating Disorders – Overview It has, really, only been in the last two or three decades that we’ve done some work looking at unique applications of Exposure-Based [...]
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