Working with families of adults with anorexia nervosa |
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| Authors: | Janet Treasure Wendy Whitaker Jenna Whitney Ulrike Schmidt |
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| Affiliation: | Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, 5th Floor Thomas Guy House, Guys Campus, London SE1 9RT, UK. E-mail: .; Senior Social Worker, Eating Disorders Unit, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, London, UK.; Ph.D. student, GKT, King's College London, UK.; Reader in Eating Disorders, Section of Eating Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, London. |
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| Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to describe working with the carers (families) of adults with anorexia nervosa (AN), which is different from working with families of younger adolescents. The main difference is in the area of rights and responsibilities of both parties. Moreover, as AN in adults is often a chronic condition, the treatment goal may not focus on recovery, but instead on improvement in quality of life. Thus the spectrum of nature and degree of parental involvement in the treatment of adults with AN is much broader than in children and adolescents. Our framework for intervention is based on a clear model of carer distress, from which targets for intervention follow. The paper outlines some of the core components of this work. |
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