Author of the New York Times article “When Anorexics Grow Up,” Lisa Fogarty vividly recalls her first experience with anorexia on screen. A number of made-for-TV movies hit televisions in the late 80’s and 90’s that provided her and many others with their first...
Researcher Walter Kaye and his team at the UC San Diego Eating Disorder Center believe that brain imaging may play a key role in shaping the way we understand disordered eating behaviors. The team identified specific reward mechanisms within the brain that may be...
A meta-analysis of the relationship between therapeutic alliance and treatment outcome in eating disorders While the therapeutic alliance has long been identified as an important factor in favorable psychotherapeutic outcomes, the effects of the therapeutic alliance...
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...
For the first time, researchers have identified genetic origins of anorexia nervosa. The ground-breaking study was carried out by the Psychiatric Genetics Consortium Eating Disorders Working Group at UNC Chapel Hill Medical School in an effort to identify a genetic...
