The Role of Family-Based Treatment For Adolescent Eating Disorders: Opportunities and Challenges

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Family-Based Treatment
There is a commonly held misconception that eating disorders are a lifestyle choice. However, this is not the case in reality. In reality, eating disorders are serious illnesses that could turn out fatal if not attended to. Eating disorders are illnesses that are associated with severe disturbances in people's eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions ("Eating Disorder Statistics | General & Diversity Stats | ANAD," 2021). Family-Based Therapy (FBT) is a robust outpatient program that tries to keep away from hospitalization and rather effectively connects with guardians during the time spent reestablishing their kid to a solid load at home. 
Family-Based Treatment is also referred to as the Maudsley approach (Morris & Twaddle, 2007). The method was initially developed and tested in London, England, at Maudsley Hospital. This research was done on a population of adolescents and adults, which was found to be efficacious for patients that were eighteen years old and younger. The Maudsley approach has been primarily designed to provide an alternative treatment to Anorexia Nervosa. Although this treatment is for patients with Anorexia Nervosa, it is known to work best for patients diagnosed with the disorder for at most three years (Rienecke, 2017). With the help of FBT, parents have been able to get help with their diagnosed child and ultimately get through the remission from Anorexia Nervosa. The FBT aims at bringing back the child to their original state of mind and their authentic physical look, their chronologically appropriate stage of physical and psychosocial development (Brown et al., 2013). Family-Based treatment is a common form of treatment among children and teens to treat Anorexia Nervosa. However, FBT can also be effectively applied to treat Anorexia Nervosa in young adults and other adults.  
There exists evidence by a seminal study attributing to the effectiveness of FBT's utility in preventing relapse and facilitating continuous improvement following inpatient weight restoration. FBT for adolescent Anorexia Nervosa has been subjected to further study in additional RCTs, open trials, and clinical case series. Collectively, existing literature has demonstrated that FBT is adequate for an entire course of weight restoration (Caskey, 1985). This shows that Maudsley's approach can be very effective if used correctly and accurately. The patients continue to be healthier and healthier as time goes by. Previous studies have also shown that binge eating and dieting have determined that 10-50% of adolescent boys and girls engage in binge eating (Costa-Font & Jofre-Bonet, 2012). FBT treats Anorexia as a clinical ailment while using food as the remedial specialist.
Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa, on the other hand, is a mental/emotional disorder that is becoming more and more common in today's society. Mental illnesses are fragile because there are no many choices in medicine to find a cure. Anorexia Nervosa is the lack or loss of appetite for food with an obsessive objective of losing weight by not eating correctly. In addition, it is ...