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Posted on January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 by Behavioral Tech

Radical Genuineness: What Can DBT Teach Us About How to be Eating Disorder Clinicians? (Part 2)

Leslie Anderson - Radical Genuineness part 2

This feature by Leslie Karwoski Anderson, PhD is Part 2 of 2 in a series about DBT for eating disorders. In the first part, Leslie addresses her experience working with DBT as an eating disorder clinician and the first of five Eating Disorder skills she will discuss in this blog. In this second part, she will discuss the remaining four Eating Disorder skills, including Radical Acceptance, Validation, Effective Eating, and Non-judgmentalness.

Posted on January 2, 2023January 19, 2023 by Behavioral Tech

Radical Genuineness: What Can DBT Teach Us About How to be Eating Disorder Clinicians? (Part 1)

This feature by Leslie Karwoski Anderson, PhD is Part 1 of 2 in a series about DBT for eating disorders. In this first part, Leslie addresses her experience working with DBT as an eating disorder clinician and the first of five Eating Disorder skills she will discuss in this blog.

Posted on April 27, 2020March 1, 2022 by Behavioral Tech

How DBT Can Help Treat Eating Disorders (Part 2)

This feature by Lucene Wisniewski is the second part in a two-part series about applying DBT to the treatment of eating disorders. In part 1, Lucene addresses some of the existing literature and basic concepts for the application of DBT to eating disorders. Part 2 shares advice for clinicians and insight on when it is appropriate to use DBT with clients diagnosed with an eating disorder.

Posted on April 20, 2020March 1, 2022 by Behavioral Tech

How DBT Can Help Treat Eating Disorders (Part 1)

This feature by Lucene Wisniewski is the first part in a two-part series about applying DBT to the treatment of eating disorders. In part 1, Lucene addresses some of the existing literature and basic concepts for the application of DBT to eating disorders.

Posted on June 1, 2016March 1, 2022 by Behavioral Tech

How DBT Can Help Treat Eating Disorders

Therapy Models for Treating Eating Disorders

The rationale for applying DBT to the treatment of eating disorders (EDs) has been described comprehensively in the literature. The rationale proposed suggests that alternative approaches are necessary for eating disorders because current empirically founded treatments (e.g. cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal psychotheray) may only be partially effective or ineffective for a select number of patients. DBT can be considered a logical alternative because, unlike other approaches, it is based on an affect-regulation model of treating ED symptoms. Eating pathology (e.g. binge-eating, self-induced vomiting, restriction, etc.) may now be understood as mechanisms to cope with emotional vulnerability (Telch et al., 2000), as opposed to errors in cognition or faulty interpersonal relationships alone ( Fairburn et al., 1993).