describe three treatments for eating disorder?

Answer 1

(1) Cognitive behavioral therapy -- this encourages the patient to challenge the way she thinks (about herself, her body, relationships, etc.). By challenging negative thoughts and replacing them with more positive ones, the patient may gradually change the way in which she views herself. For example, when the patient things, "I'm fat - I don't deserve to eat" the therapist challenges this thought by asking, "Why don't you deserve to eat? What have you done that makes you undeserving?" This is done because most of the reasons that people with eating disorders feel this way don't make much sense, and the therapist wants to help the eating disordered person understand that her thinking is warped. This is one of the more effective treatments and is used in individual and group therapy on both an inpatient and outpatient basis.

(2) Nutritional therapy will help the patient re-learn proper and healthy ways of eating and dealing with food. The nutritionist will try to problem-solve with the patient so that the patient can either gradually consume more calories and slowly put weight back on, or will help the patient manage food and find things to eat that she won't be tempted to throw up

(3) Psychodynamic therapy focuses on what is causing the symptoms and what the symptoms may represent. For example, many people with eating disorders have a strong desire to be in control and feel that the only thing they are able to control is their food intake and their bodies. A psychodynamic therapist will try to help the patient understand why control is so important. This type of treatment looks more towards the patients past and is less focused on symptoms.

Treatment can be conducted on either an inpatient or outpatient basis. Most people do not have to go to the hospital and those that do have typically gotten to the point where they have become medically unstable because of malnutrition. Outpatient therapy is typically recommended before inpatient treatment, and inpatient treatment is typically short-term so as to disrupt the patient's life as little as possible. I'm a licensed therapist and have worked worked for a major eating disorders clinic with centers up and down the east coast -- we provided both inpatient and outpatient treatment and really only encouraged any patient to go inpatient if it was absolutely necessary. The hospital has a wonderful success rate in treating patients but recognizes that inpatient hospitals are really only good for stabilization -- the real work and recovery often occurs on an outpatient basis

Answer 2

OP - Outpatient: may work with MD, Psych, Nutritionist, Therapist

IOP - Intensive Outpatient: Day-Treatment thru a hospital

IP - Inpatient: Ranges in length of stay, but in a hospital

Residential - long-term treatment centre - usually several months in length

Answer 3

I'm a nurse. I have only one and that's inpatient care. It's the best for an eating disorder.

Answer 4

Family support, friends support, and asking the Lord to help you to see yourself as one with great worth. When we are able to see ourselves the way God sees us, many troubles become far more manageable.

Answer 5

what kind of eating disorder?

Answer 6

Realize you are not your body by asking whose body it is, and naturally... who am I?