A new cognitive behavior therapy for adolescents with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder in a day treatment setting: A clinical case series.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a new diagnosis in the DSM-5 Feeding and Eating Disorders section, for which very limited treatment research has been carried out, yet. A new, 4-week exposure based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) day treatment, which integrated the inhibitory learning principles, was developed for adolescents with ARFID, and tested in the current study.

Method

A nonconcurrent multiple baseline design was used in a clinical case series of eleven 10- to 18-year-old patients. After baseline, the 4-week CBT followed. Measurements of DSM-5 ARFID diagnosis, food neophobia and related measures such as body weight and length, were taken at baseline (t1), at the end of the 4-week intensive day treatment (t2) and 3 months after treatme

SUBMITTER: Dumont E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6593777 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature