New Psychotherapy Has Potential To Treat Majority Of Cases Of Eating Disorders

Wellcome Trust researchers have developed a new form of psychotherapy that has been shown to have the potential to treat more than eight out of ten cases of eating disorders in adults, a new study reports. This new “enhanced” form of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT-E) builds on and improves the current leading treatment for bulimia nervosa as recommended by the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

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Filed under: Psychology on December 19th, 2008