Genie Burnett, Psy.D specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents, and adults suffering from eating [...]
Tips for Finding a Therapist Specialized in Eating Disorders When battling an eating disorder, individuals should seek out the best care possible. When looking for a therapist to help with your recovery journey, it is important to remember that not all clinicians are created equal. One study found that, despite being provided with national “best [...]
Why We Need to Change the Way We Diagnose & Treat EDs We have a huge problem in the eating disorder treatment field. It is vital that we change the way we are describing dysfunctional eating behavior. I have a real sense of loss that the research that we’re doing is so separated from the [...]
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 case examples were derived from the patients that we treated right here in our eating disorders program at Rogers. I’ve obviously changed the names and [...]
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 particularly good fit in the context of eating disorders. First of all, we talked before about the significant overlap and comorbidity between depression and eating [...]
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 Activation Treatment Behavioral Activation (BA) is a treatment approach that is, historically, very effective at addressing depression. As I mentioned before, there are significant common [...]
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. What’s important to point out is that these hierarchies don’t have to focus on just one kind of feared area or domain. We can include [...]
Gaining Weight After Anorexia – Live Again & Enjoy Eating Anorexia is eating as little as possible, starving yourself and causing severe weight loss. Often, anorexia is associated with psychological issues, physiological problems, a trauma, or someone trying to gain some type of control in their life. However, their body and what they eat will [...]
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 important as it kicks off treatment and gets things started and moving in the right direction. Our major objective in completing the functional assessment is [...]
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 Therapy in the context of eating disorders. The good news is this important work that’s been done over the last two to three decades suggests [...]
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