The five tenets of family-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders

Abstract Family-based treatment (FBT) is the leading treatment for adolescent eating disorders and is based on five tenets, or fundamental assumptions: (1) the therapist holds an agnostic view of the cause of the illness; (2) the therapist takes a non-authoritarian stance in treatment; (3) parents a...

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Main Authors: Renee D. Rienecke, Daniel Le Grange
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-05-01
Series:Journal of Eating Disorders
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-022-00585-y