Family Therapy for Adolescent Eating and Weight Disorders ─ New Applications

Family-based treatment (FBT) for eating disorders is an outpatient therapy where parents are the main resource in treatment. The therapist supports the parents to do the work nurses would have done if the patient were hospitalized to a specialist inpatient-refeeding unit. Once starvation has been resolved, the parents are tasked to encourage the patient to resume adolescent development, unencumbered by the eating disorder. Recently, many new adaptations of the FBT intervention have been developed for addressing the needs of special populations. This book chronicles these novel applications of FBT in a series of chapters authored by the clinicians and investigators who are pioneering each adaptation.

Katharine L. Loeb, PHD is an associate professor of psychology in the PhD program in clinical psychology at Farleigh Dickinson University. She is also an adjunct associate professor in and was the founding director of the Eating and Weight Disorders Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Daniel Le Grange, PHD is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience and director of the Eating Disorders Clinic at The University of Chicago. He has written extensively on family-based treatments for eating disorders in children and adolescents.

James D. Lock PHD, MD is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford School of Medicine.