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Dialectical behavioral therapy for the treatment of adolescent eating disorders: a review of existing work and proposed future directions
- Source :
- Eating Disorders. 28:122-141
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2020.
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Abstract
- Over the past several decades, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has been adapted for a range of presenting problems related to emotion dysregulation. Considerable enthusiasm exists regarding the use of DBT for treating eating disorders; however, to date, there have been no reviews summarizing empirical efforts to adapt DBT for eating disorders in youth. Accordingly, in the present narrative review, we provide a comprehensive summary of existing work testing DBT for adolescent eating disorders. First, we briefly review existing work applying DBT to eating disorders in adults and general adolescent samples. We then review research focused specifically on the use of DBT for adolescent eating disorders, including both those studies applying DBT as the primary treatment and investigations of DBT as an adjunctive treatment. Overall, initial results for DBT-based approaches are promising. However, rigorous empirical work testing DBT for treating adolescent eating disorders remains limited; the majority of existing research is comprised of case series and small-scale studies. Therefore, we close with specific recommendations for future research testing this approach.
- Subjects :
- 050103 clinical psychology
Psychotherapist
Adolescent
medicine.medical_treatment
Emotions
Behavioral therapy
MEDLINE
Feeding and Eating Disorders
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Behavior Therapy
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Dialectic
Empirical work
05 social sciences
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Dialectical behavior therapy
030227 psychiatry
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Eating disorders
Adjunctive treatment
Narrative review
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1532530X and 10640266
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Eating Disorders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....334abc1f89bf40d02a9c54b47ca02e69