Attachment and mentalization as predictors of outcome in family therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa.

ABSTRACT: Anorexia nervosa-focussed family therapy (FT-AN) is the first-line treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN), but the predictors of poor treatment response are not well understood. The main aim of this study was to investigate the role of attachment and mentalization in predicting treatment outcome. The secondary aims of the study were to investigate therapeutic alliance at 1 month as a predictor of outcome, and to test the associations between alliance and baseline attachment and mentalization. 192 adolescents with AN and their parents were recruited as they began family therapy in out-patient specialist eating disorder services. Self-report measures of attachment, mentalization, and emotion regulation were completed at the start of treatment by adolescent patients and one of their p

SUBMITTER: Jewell T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10276078 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature