Cognitive Behavioral Interventions
Cognitive Behavioral Interventions
- The single most effective treatment for eating disorder patient
- Steps to helping the patient
- Help the patient become aware of cognitive distortions is the first step
- Ask patient to monitor and record eating, bingeing, and purging behavior and thoughts and feelings regarding weight, shape, and food
- Helping Patients understand the aspect of their behavior
- Cues that trigger problematic eating responses
- Thoughts, feelings, and assumptions associated with specific cues
- Connections between these thoughts, feelings, and assumptions and eating regulation
- Consequences resulting from the eating responses
- Steps to helping the patient
Body Image Interventions
- First determine whether the patient has problems with perception, attitude, or behavior and then devise a treatment program targeting the specific problem area.
- Behavioral features of body image disturbance are seen in a lifestyle that revolves around a self-concern about the body.
- Constantly measuring body weight
- Wearing baggy clothes
- Avoiding social situations that focus on appearance
- Body Image Distortion
- A discrepancy between the patient’s actual size and the patient’s perceived body size
- Body Dissatisfaction
- The degree of unhappiness that a person feels in relations to body size
- Behavioral features of body image disturbance are seen in a lifestyle that revolves around a self-concern about the body.