As you may have learned in last week’s blog about Outcomes-Informed Care, Columbus Park is committed to ongoing treatment reviews with each client to ensure goals are being met in treatment, and that strong therapeutic alliances lead to consistently high success rates...
There is no doubt that all patients deserve the very best care. So whether a psychotherapeutic treatment is actually working or not working is highly relevant. Therefore, outcomes – how patients are responding to treatment – absolutely must be monitored. And not...
Over the past 10 years, various universities, researchers, and clinical teams have worked to evaluate the efficacy and efficiency of eating disorder treatments delivered via technology. In this time, a wide range of technologies (e.g., televideo, e-mail, CD-ROM,...
A recent study conducted by lead researcher Kristen Anderson, LCSW aimed to test the feasibility of family-based treatment (FBT) delivered to adolescents and their families via Teleheath. All participants (N=10) were diagnosed with anorexia nervosa (AN) based on DSM5...
To date, it has been well documented that eating disorders are complex, multifactorial diseases. Sociocultural, family, biological and environmental factors impact one's susceptibility to develop an eating disorder. In addition to these vulnerability factors, it has...
A recent study by Danielle E. MacDonald, PhD1,2 | Kathryn Trottier, PhD1,2 | Marion P. Olmsted, PhD1,2 It has been identified that Rapid and substantial behavioral change (RSBC) earlier on in the process of CBT for eating disorders is the strongest predictor to...
A recent study by Talbot, Gavin, van Steen, and Morey (2017) examined the different content in fitspiration, thinspiration, and bonespiration on social media outlets. These types of images are used to try to motivate people to achieve specific body types, which can be...
For many, the holiday season is associated with warm hors-d'oeuvres, mingling and social dinner parties. For others, the thought of gathering with loved ones around the table elicits a very different feeling. In a time when the obesity epidemic has gained so much...
For some time, the “core psychopathology” associated with anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders has been identified as “an overvaluation of body shape and weight and one’s ability to control them.” Despite this widespread belief, there exists a subset of the AN...
In a recent study by Leppanen, Dapelo, Davies, Lang, Treasure, and Tchanturia (2017) it was found that there are differences in facial emotional expressions in EDs. The study included individuals with anorexia (AN), individuals with bulimia (BN), individuals recovered...