Family therapy for adolescent eating disorders: An update

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Murray, Stuart B ^a,b   Le Grange, Daniel ^c  

^a Redleaf Practice   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Anorexia nervosa; Bulimia nervosa; Eating disorders; Family therapy; Family based treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BULIMIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EATING DISORDER; FAMILY BASED THERAPY; FAMILY THERAPY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MULTI FAMILY THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT GAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; EATING DISORDERS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMANS;

EID: 84897046197     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-014-0447-y     Document Type: Article

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