Adolescent-Focused Psychotherapy (AFP) is an individual therapy approach designed specifically for adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN). The AFP approach AFP takes the view that adolescents with AN are using food restriction and weight control as a coping strategy...
75% of individual therapy patients graduate treatment within 20 weeks. 92% of Intensive Outpatient Program patients graduate treatment within 9 weeks. Columbus Park has achieved “highly effective” treatment status* since 2016. *According to ACORN – Collaborative...
Columbus Park has been delivering high quality*, evidence-based care to individuals with eating disorders since 2008. *Given our dedication to collecting outcome data, we’re able to use the phrase “high quality” with great confidence. Columbus Park uses several...
By Jana Keith-Jennings, LMSW The majority of eating disorder treatments and research has been focused primarily on thin, straight, white, middle- or upper-class, able-bodied women with anorexia nervosa. While this focus has generated important findings, it has failed...
The guidelines set forth by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), inform that Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E) is the most appropriate alternative to Family Based Treatment (FBT) (typically considered the gold standard) for...
