Family-Based Treatment (also called the Maudsley Method) for children and adolescents with eating disorders has proven to be the most effective intervention for sustained recovery from Anorexia Nervosa. Increasingly studies are showing similar success in recovery...
An interesting Op Ed was recently published to online publication Redbook Magazine discussing the fine line between body positivity and body obsession. Lisa Fogarty, an adult female who has been recovered from anorexia nervosa for many years, delved into her unique...
As we continue our blog series on DBT Skills for coping, we enter the DBT module or chapter called Emotion Regulation. Emotion Regulation skills have three primary goals: 1) to help us better attend to and understand our emotions, 2) to decrease our vulnerability to...
Due to the widespread accessibility of cell phones and electronic devices, the mental health field has embraced the likelihood that treatment options could, and very well should expand over the next decade. As a result of this movement, various e-therapies have been...
We continue to travel through the Distress Tolerance module (one of the four “chapters” or modules of DBT, each presenting a number of strategies in each skills group) of DBT with the introduction of the “ACCEPTS” skill. Like other skills within the Distress Tolerance...
