Does it matter how quickly eating disorder symptoms resolve once you start therapy? Yes, it absolutely does. Columbus Park, an outpatient facility treating disorders throughout New York state, announced their Early Change Model for the treatment of eating disorders...
Does it matter how quickly your eating disorder symptoms decrease once you start treatment? Yes, yes, and yes! An abundance of evidence accumulated over the last 20 years reinforces that early change to treatment is a “robust” predictor of a good outcome.1 In other...
Early change in treatment is one of the most replicated and well-established predictors of a positive outcome in psychotherapy. In other words, patients whose symptoms decrease notably early on in treatment (roughly within the first four to eight weeks) have a better...