Treatment Goals part 1

How can you treat these enfremedades?
Treatment Goals
The success of therapy for eating disorders depends on many factors including: the patient's own personality and the desire for change, the duration of their disorder, the age at the beginning of the disease, his family history, his level of social and vocational skills, and the occurrence of other disorders such as depression.

It is important to remember that there is no miracle cure for eating disorders. You can not give someone a pill or utter a magic word and expect the condition go away. These diseases involve problems against which the patients have fought and continue to fight for the greater part of their lives. But a good treatment program will help build self-confidence and teach the participants and will face no problems arise for a self-destructive behavior. For patients who need it, the program will also help restore the health and physical strength. In general the three main goals of therapy are:
Physical symptoms

1 Mitigation dangerous or threatening to life.
2 Teach the patient to eat normally, destructive thoughts concerning eating, weight and eating.
3 Research, in the hope of change, destructive thoughts concerning eating, weight and eating.

Assessment
Before anyone start treatment as an inpatient or outpatient, must be assessed their general physical and mental condition, the severity of their disorder, the possible existence of concurrent disorders and their willingness to change.

Questionnaires
Have developed several specialized questionnaires to evaluate patients. Help someone assess attitudes toward weight and shape, and clarify the psychological characteristics and personality traits, level of social performance and similar problems.

The interview
The appraisal interview helps the doctor to get a clearer idea of the lifestyle of the patient, his current weight, diet history and weight fluctuations, eating habits and attitudes toward weight and family, the husband, the lover or friends, and outside interests and occupations are of interest because they shed light on their performance skills, the degree of independence and the extent of their isolation.

Treatment Options
After evaluation, you will receive recommendations for treatment.

Individual psychotherapy
Perhaps the most important aspect of psychotherapy for disorders of indigestion is developing a warm relationship between patient and therapist. People suffering from these disorders often find it difficult to trust others, especially when asked about eating habits that they themselves considered rare or repulsive; fear that everyone else feel disgusted. You need a high degree of confidence by the patient to trust the therapist.

Traditional Psychotherapy
The traditional therapy methods encourage the patient to reflect about his childhood, dreams and feelings expressed for, thereby acquiring a new perception of their current behavior. Recognizing the role of these subliminal influences, the theory goes, the patient acquire a new perception of their actions and change.

Modifications of behavior
This form of therapy is perhaps antagonistic with respect to traditional psychotherapy, because it completely ignores the underlying feelings and focuses only on changing behavior. The behavior modification works based on a simple principle: to reinforce a desired behavior through rewards and punish or ignore unwanted behavior. For example, an anorexic reaches a predetermined target weight may be allowed to watch a movie or stop going to class one day. If you can not achieve the goal, may be prohibited to watch TV. A similar system of rewards and punishments would work with a bulimic patient.