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When a patient with an eating disorder presents in an outpatient setting, the clinician needs to know how to assess the appropriate level of care. Get an overview of the levels of care available, and clarify admission and discharge criteria at each level. Examine selected modalities of psychotherapy successful in the treatment of eating disorders—including the Maudsley method and the family systems approach—with an emphasis on the role of family therapy.
Learner Outcomes
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Identify under what circumstances a patient with an eating disorder meets criteria for hospitalization, residential treatment, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient or outpatient treatment
- Describe discharge criteria necessary before a patient can appropriately drop down to a lower level of care
- Describe important areas to consider in the family assessment of patients with eating disorders
- Describe features of successful and unsuccessful family meals according to the Maudsley Model
- Differentiate between strategic, structural and Maudsley views of eating disorder etiologies
- Identify themes associated with interpersonal psychotherapy like the role of “the here and now” and techniques such as assertiveness training
- Provide examples of separating one’s self from eating disorder using narrative therapy techniques
- Describe tools used in dialectical behavior therapy
- Describe and give examples of feminist psychotherapy techniques used to help improve body image