60th Annual Meeting

October 19 - 27, 2013

Clinical Case Conference 5 (open)

Strategies for Effective Behavioral, Nutrition, and Cognitive Therapy for Eating Disorders

Eating disorders carry the potential for serious physical and psychological consequences, with Anorexia Nervosa having the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Several challenges exist in successfully engaging these individuals and their families for treatment beyond the acute hospitalization period. This CCC identifies structural family elements and processes of conflict management that perpetuate eating disordered behaviors and discusses the process of negotiating adaptive relational patterns. Attendees learn about the combination of Family Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a clinically effective means of addressing eating disordered behavior with sustained outcomes, and are able to apply pediatric nutritional guidelines to the treatment of pediatric eating disorders.