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Conceptualising,designing and drafting a monthly multi-family therapy programme and manual for adolescents with anorexia nervosa |
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| Authors: | Lisa Minier Benjamin Carrot Solange Cook-Darzens Sophie Criquillion-Doublet France Boyer Vesper Barton-Clegg Mima Simic Stamatoula Voulgari Nathalie Godart Jeanne Duclos the THERAFAMBEST group |
| Affiliation: | 1. Psychiatric Unit, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France;2. Psychiatric Unit, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France CESP, INSERM, UMR 1018, University Paris-Sud, UVSQ, University Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France;3. Affiliée au Service de Psychopathologie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, France;4. Affiliée à la CMME, Sainte Anne Hospital, GHU Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Paris, France;5. Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED), Maudsley Hospital, London, UK;6. Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 9193 – SCALab – Cognitive and Affective Sciences, Lille, France |
| Abstract: | The written transmission of therapists' expertise in manuals is an important issue which is highlighted in the literature. Manuals are essential for research, training and therapeutic guidance. However, the conceptualisation, design and drafting of therapy manuals have received little attention. Our team conceptualised and designed a 10-monthly session multi-family therapy programme for adolescents suffering from anorexia nervosa. This paper presents the methodology used to evolve from training and theoretical models to designing a programme and drafting the accompanying manual. We then describe how our team reached a consensus regarding the role to be attributed to food-related symptoms in the programme. These arduous tasks were rewarded by fruitful discussions among team members, which led to a shared theory of treatment. The methodology presented here is drawn from both the experience of specialised teams and from that of families in providing care to adolescents with anorexia nervosa. |
| Keywords: | anorexia nervosa families' experience family therapy multi-family therapy therapy manual |