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Treatment Evaluation for Eating Disorders by Clients with Eating Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Tim Newton ,
Pat Hartley  and
Peter Sturmey
Tim Newton
Affiliation:
University College, Salford
Pat Hartley
Affiliation:
University College, Salford
Peter Sturmey
Affiliation:
Abilene State School, Texas
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Abstract

A group of 54 clients with eating disorders who attended a college-based, group counselling service evaluated four treatments for eating disorders. Individual discussion of problems was uniformly rated as more acceptable than two behavioural treatments (systematic desensitization, and goals and relaxation) which were, in turn, rated as more acceptable than drug treatment. Methodological problems with this form of consumer evaluation and the need for further evaluation of behaviour therapy within a wider range of clinical populations are discussed.

Type
Brief Clinical Report
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 1993 , pp. 371 - 374
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1993

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