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Acceptance-Based Separated Family Treatment for Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa

NCT01274416 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2013-08-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators are trying to learn the most effective way to treat an adolescent's eating disorder and how best to involve the parents or caregivers in this process.

Typically, parents and their child are seen together in therapy. However, this can sometimes be difficult for both the parents and the adolescent. Both parents and adolescents have different concerns and are struggling with different aspects of the eating disorder. Therefore, the treatment in this study involves the parents in treatment, but does not have therapy sessions with the parents and child together.

The purpose of this study is to develop this investigational type of treatment (separated family treatment), and see what works best for adolescents and their families.

Participants meet with a therapist for 20 sessions over the course of 24 weeks. For the first 16 weeks families separate therapy sessions weekly. For the last 8 weeks families meet with the therapist bi-weekly. These bi-weekly sessions are conjoint - that is, adolescents and parents will meet with the therapist together. This is to help parents and adolescents come together as a family to continue to aid the adolescent in the treatment of his/her eating disorder.

The investigators hypothesize that adolescents who receive ASFT will demonstrate improvement in eating disorder symptoms and body-mass index, that caregivers who participate in ASFT will demonstrate decreased distress and caregiver burden, that increases in psychological acceptance will be seen for both adolescents and caregivers post-treatment, and that treatment will be viewed as both credible and acceptable to both caregiver and adolescent

Conditions

  • Anorexia Nervosa
  • Subthreshold Anorexia Nervosa
  • Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, Primary Restriction

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

The stated goal of this intervention is to increase willingness to experience difficult thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations in order to engage in flexible action.

BEHAVIORAL

Parent Skills Training

Skills Training for parents that provides psychoeducation for eating disorder and skills in behavior management, self-regulation, and emotion regulation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Rhonda Merwin, PhD · Assistant Professor

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-05-31
Primary Completion
2011-05-31
Completion
2012-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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