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Q uarterly - Treating childhood eating disorders

30 Jan 2024

Implications for practice and policy 11 Sidebars About the Children’s Health Policy Centre Eating disorders are not linked to We are an interdisciplinary research group in socio-economic status 4 the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser An e!ective treatment for binge-eating disorder 12 University. [...] #e Canadian pediatric hospitals study noted previously found that treatment admissions for eating disorder rose sharply during the pandemic.11 Hospitalizations for new patients increased from 7.5$cases per$month in the previous "ve years to 20.0 cases per$month during the "rst pandemic wave.11 Similarly, a$study measuring hospital use for eating disorders for all children and adolescents in Ontari. [...] We conducted a systematic review of eating disorder treatment studies to inform and support practitioners and policy-makers in Families are often integral to the treatment of childhood eating disorders. [...] With Psychodynamic #erapy, according to cause serious the authors, therapists began by encouraging youth to understand their symptoms as a symptoms and “displacement from psychological self to body self.” #erapists targeted bulimic symptoms interruptions in based on the teen’s “con%icts and ego-structural de"cits” while encouraging them to healthy development develop an understanding of the emotio. [...] With Family-Based Treatment, consistent with the researchers’ hypothesis, signi"cantly more teens abstained from bingeing and purging than those receiving CBT, both at end of treatment and at six-month follow-up.27 However, by one- year follow-up, the di!erence between the treatments was not signi"cant for this outcome.27 In contrast, in the RCT assessing CBT compared with Psychodynamic #erapy, re.
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