Title: Treating bulimia in adolescents : a family-based approach /
Authors: Le Grange, Daniel; Lock, James.
Publisher: Guilford Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Eating disorders in adolescence.; Bulimia Patients Family relationships.; Family psychotherapy; Parent and teenager; Bulimia Nervosa therapy; Adolescent; Family Therapy methods
Abstract: "Teenagers are twice as likely to have bulimia nervosa than anorexia nervosa, and are often more motivated to seek help. Yet while well-tested therapies exist for anorexia, until now there has been a total lack of evidence-based treatment guidelines for bulimia. This state-of-the-art manual is the first to focus specifically on this significant clinical population. The authors present a time-limited bulimia treatment that is based on the proven Maudsley approach to treating anorexia, and that has been demonstrated effective in a controlled clinical trial at the University of Chicago." --Book Jacket.
Contents: Introduction and background information on bulimia nervosa -- Family-based treatment for adolescent bulimia nervosa -- Phase I: initial evaluation -- Session 1: the first face-to-face meeting with the family -- Session 1 in action -- Session 2: the family meal -- Session 2 in action -- the remainder of phase I (sessions 3-10) -- The remainder of phase I in action -- Phase II: helping the adolescent eat on her own (sessions 11-16) -- Phase II in action -- Phase III: adolescent developmental concerns (sessions 17-20) -- Phase III in action -- Summary of a completed case.