“I’m still here, but no one hears you”: a qualitative study of young women’s experiences of persistent distress post family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa

Plain English summary Family-Based Treatment (FBT) is a well-established, intensive approach to the treatment of adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN). The first phase of treatment focuses on eating and weight restoration, where parents are given responsibility for the adolescent’s home-based refeeding....

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Autores principales: Janet Conti, Caroline Joyce, Simone Natoli, Kelsey Skeoch, Phillipa Hay
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c0aa8dd7c84c4a41ae52bd84388386ec2021-11-14T12:10:37Z“I’m still here, but no one hears you”: a qualitative study of young women’s experiences of persistent distress post family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa10.1186/s40337-021-00496-42050-2974https://doaj.org/article/c0aa8dd7c84c4a41ae52bd84388386ec2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-021-00496-4https://doaj.org/toc/2050-2974Plain English summary Family-Based Treatment (FBT) is a well-established, intensive approach to the treatment of adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN). The first phase of treatment focuses on eating and weight restoration, where parents are given responsibility for the adolescent’s home-based refeeding. This is followed by handing over of this responsibility to the adolescent with the final-phase a focusing on adolescent-specific psychological issues. While the majority of adolescents gain weight with this treatment, a substantive proportion experience ongoing psychological distress and around a quarter of families drop out in the first phase. Little is known about these adolescents’ experiences. In this project, we interviewed 14 individuals who, with their family, had either dropped out of FBT and/or experienced ongoing psychological distress post-treatment. The participants noted that their parents’ stance in supporting them was life-saving and contributed to a sense that their life was worth saving. However, they also noted a relative absence of focus on their psychological distress, particularly in the early stages of treatment. Most helpful for participants was when therapists took into consideration and tailored treatments to them. Future treatments need to consider ways to support an adolescent’s psychological distress more comprehensively, prioritise their voice and support them in finding an identity outside of the AN identity.Janet ContiCaroline JoyceSimone NatoliKelsey SkeochPhillipa HayBMCarticleAdolescent anorexia nervosaMaudsley family therapyFamily-based treatmentExperienceIdentityQualitativePsychiatryRC435-571ENJournal of Eating Disorders, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-17 (2021)
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topic Adolescent anorexia nervosa
Maudsley family therapy
Family-based treatment
Experience
Identity
Qualitative
Psychiatry
RC435-571
spellingShingle Adolescent anorexia nervosa
Maudsley family therapy
Family-based treatment
Experience
Identity
Qualitative
Psychiatry
RC435-571
Janet Conti
Caroline Joyce
Simone Natoli
Kelsey Skeoch
Phillipa Hay
“I’m still here, but no one hears you”: a qualitative study of young women’s experiences of persistent distress post family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa
description Plain English summary Family-Based Treatment (FBT) is a well-established, intensive approach to the treatment of adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN). The first phase of treatment focuses on eating and weight restoration, where parents are given responsibility for the adolescent’s home-based refeeding. This is followed by handing over of this responsibility to the adolescent with the final-phase a focusing on adolescent-specific psychological issues. While the majority of adolescents gain weight with this treatment, a substantive proportion experience ongoing psychological distress and around a quarter of families drop out in the first phase. Little is known about these adolescents’ experiences. In this project, we interviewed 14 individuals who, with their family, had either dropped out of FBT and/or experienced ongoing psychological distress post-treatment. The participants noted that their parents’ stance in supporting them was life-saving and contributed to a sense that their life was worth saving. However, they also noted a relative absence of focus on their psychological distress, particularly in the early stages of treatment. Most helpful for participants was when therapists took into consideration and tailored treatments to them. Future treatments need to consider ways to support an adolescent’s psychological distress more comprehensively, prioritise their voice and support them in finding an identity outside of the AN identity.
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author Janet Conti
Caroline Joyce
Simone Natoli
Kelsey Skeoch
Phillipa Hay
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Caroline Joyce
Simone Natoli
Kelsey Skeoch
Phillipa Hay
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title “I’m still here, but no one hears you”: a qualitative study of young women’s experiences of persistent distress post family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa
title_short “I’m still here, but no one hears you”: a qualitative study of young women’s experiences of persistent distress post family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa
title_full “I’m still here, but no one hears you”: a qualitative study of young women’s experiences of persistent distress post family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa
title_fullStr “I’m still here, but no one hears you”: a qualitative study of young women’s experiences of persistent distress post family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa
title_full_unstemmed “I’m still here, but no one hears you”: a qualitative study of young women’s experiences of persistent distress post family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa
title_sort “i’m still here, but no one hears you”: a qualitative study of young women’s experiences of persistent distress post family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa
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