31st January 2024

Psychiatric

The initial treatment is psychoeducation and setting regular weekly, then fortnightly appointments for monitoring of weight, as well as assessment of height to determine the patient’s ‘healthy’ weight, determined by BMI. In adults, the main treatment is a modified form of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) where thoughts, emotions, physical sensations and actions are linked to understand how the eating disorder behaviour is linked and perpetuated and understand how to break the cycle. In children and adolescents, the main treatment is family therapy. 

Assessing and addressing emotional needs is very important too, as this population has the highest rate of suicide of all mental disorders.