COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY for Eating Disorders
COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
Cognitive therapists, then, believe that distorted thinking causes disordered behavior and that correcting the distorted thinking will alleviate and even cure the disordered behavior. Behavior therapists, in contrast, view disordered behavior as learned from past experience, and they attempt to alleviate the disorders by training new, more adaptive habits. These two positions are not incompatible, and many therapists try both to correct distorted cognitions and to train new habits. When therapists combine both techniques, it is called cognitive-behavioral therapy (Ellis, 1962; Beck et aI., 1979).
Arnold Lazarus is one of the therapists who integrate cognitive and behavioral techniques in therapy. Lazarus argues that disorder occurs in the same patient at seven different levels, and that there are levels of therapy appropriate to each level of disorder. The mnemonic device for these seven levels is BASIC ID, where B is behavior, A affect, S sensation, I imagery, C cognition, I interpersonal relations, 0 drugs.
The job of the therapist using such a multi-model therapy is to separate the disorder into its different levels and to choose appropriate techniques for each level. Lazarus is willing to use cognitive techniques, behavioral techniques; and even psychoanalytic procedures. Here is the variety of treatments used in the course of the -thirteen-month therapy for Mary Ann, a twenty-four-year-old woman diagnosed as a chronic emotional eater with a very poor prognosis. She was overweight, apathetic, and withdrawn. She had been heavily medicated but with little effect. But the end of thirteen months of the techniques she was functioning well and engaged to be married.
Cognitive therapists, then, believe that distorted thinking causes disordered behavior and that correcting the distorted thinking will alleviate and even cure the disordered behavior. Behavior therapists, in contrast, view disordered behavior as learned from past experience, and they attempt to alleviate the disorders by training new, more adaptive habits. These two positions are not incompatible, and many therapists try both to correct distorted cognitions and to train new habits. When therapists combine both techniques, it is called cognitive-behavioral therapy (Ellis, 1962; Beck et aI., 1979).
Arnold Lazarus is one of the therapists who integrate cognitive and behavioral techniques in therapy. Lazarus argues that disorder occurs in the same patient at seven different levels, and that there are levels of therapy appropriate to each level of disorder. The mnemonic device for these seven levels is BASIC ID, where B is behavior, A affect, S sensation, I imagery, C cognition, I interpersonal relations, 0 drugs.
The job of the therapist using such a multi-model therapy is to separate the disorder into its different levels and to choose appropriate techniques for each level. Lazarus is willing to use cognitive techniques, behavioral techniques; and even psychoanalytic procedures. Here is the variety of treatments used in the course of the -thirteen-month therapy for Mary Ann, a twenty-four-year-old woman diagnosed as a chronic emotional eater with a very poor prognosis. She was overweight, apathetic, and withdrawn. She had been heavily medicated but with little effect. But the end of thirteen months of the techniques she was functioning well and engaged to be married.
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I encourage you to schedule a FREE CONSULTATION with the treatment method I recommend:
http://www.theliberatormethod.com/Welcome.html
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Antidepressants
BDNF - brain-derived neurotophic factor
Brain and Neurobiology of Eating Disorders
Cortisol
Dopamine
Drug/food interactions
Endorphins
Generic Drug
Genes
Genetic predisposition
Leptin
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI)
Neuroleptics
Neurotransmitter
Norepinephrine
Over-the Counter Drugs (OTC)
Pre-Pubertal/Pre-Pubescent (pre-adolescent) onset
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI)
Serotonin
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Vasopressin