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 [...]
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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 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 [...]
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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 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 [...]
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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. 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 [...]
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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 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 [...]
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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 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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Exposure-Based Therapy I’m going to now walk you through step-by-step of how we implement what is called Exposure-Based Therapy in the treatment of males with eating disorders. Let’s start with a brief overview of Exposure-Based Therapy, for those of you who are unfamiliar with this approach. Historically, Exposure-Based Therapy is a very effective approach or [...]
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Psychopathology of Males & Treatment of Eating Disorders When we look at the psychopathology of males and some of the co-occurring issues and comparing that to females, let’s first look at what we know the national trends are in comorbidity rates in eating disorders. When we look at the co-occurrence of anxiety disorders with eating [...]
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