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Relational containment: exploring the effect of family-based treatment for anorexia on familial relationships

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Eating Disorders, July 2017
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Title
Relational containment: exploring the effect of family-based treatment for anorexia on familial relationships
Published in
Journal of Eating Disorders, July 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40337-017-0156-0
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Authors

Andrew Wallis, Paul Rhodes, Lisa Dawson, Jane Miskovic-Wheatley, Sloane Madden, Stephen Touyz

Abstract

The aim of this research was to investigate the process of familial relationship change for adolescents with anorexia nervosa and their parents, who participated in Family-Based Treatment (FBT). A Constructionist grounded theory design was employed with purposive sampling. Sixteen young people between 12 and 18 years with a good outcome in FBT and twenty-eight of their parents participated. Young people and their parents took part in separate interviews at the end of treatment. Each interview was transcribed and analysed to identify a unifying phenomenon across the data to elicit a theory that explained the data and then integrated into existing theory. Prior to treatment families' experienced significant conflict, disconnection and isolation. The FBT structure, therapist direction, and the specialist medical setting created a process of relational containment. This enabled parents to trust the process of FBT and develop confidence in their executive role in the family. In turn this allowed the adolescent with anorexia nervosa to trust their parents, feel more secure and gradually engage in the treatment process themselves. Improvements in closeness, communication and adolescent sense of self were reported after FBT. These findings illuminate a possible mechanism of change in FBT. It underscores the importance of parental management of eating disorder symptoms at the commencement of treatment to enable increased parental confidence. Meaningful changes occurred for the adolescents' that aided normal developmental and relational processes, an important aspect of recovery. Australian Clinical Trials Register number: ACTRN012607000009415.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 90 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 16%
Student > Bachelor 14 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Researcher 6 7%
Other 10 11%
Unknown 32 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 33 37%
Social Sciences 8 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 2%
Mathematics 1 1%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 35 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 August 2019.
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#1,454,806
of 23,432,919 outputs
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#107
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#30,508
of 317,532 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Eating Disorders
#5
of 12 outputs
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