Treatment Goals part 2

Cognitive Therapy conductivist
It combines the best aspects of traditional psychotherapy and behavior modification. This method requires knowledge and challenge self-destructive behaviors and thoughts, followed by appropriate changes in behavior. In this way the patient working simultaneously on the internal motivations and external manifestations. CBT involves the following steps:
Enhance the patient's knowledge of their own thinking patterns.
Teach him to recognize the connection between certain feelings, thoughts and self-destructive behavior trantornada intake.
To examine the validity of certain thoughts or beliefs.
Replace the erroneous beliefs more appropriate ideas.
Gradually changing the fundamental assumptions that underlie the development of eating disorders.

Group Therapy
Group therapy seems particularly valuable in the treatment of bulimia. According to a recent study, this therapy was more beneficial than medication and individual therapy. Since many bulimics think they are the only ones working on these horrible practices, it is therapeutic to learn that other people also do that.
Less is known about group therapy for anorexia nervosa. Some therapists complain that the anorexic group fiercely competing to see who manages to keep the lowest weight or spend more time without eating. In addition, prolonged therapy leads many anorexics need that many groups are inappropriate, since it is unusual for a therapy group last that long.

Family therapy
Many therapists recommend family therapy as part of treatment for anorexia nervosa, because anorexics are often younger than bulimics and still live with their families. Family therapy allows the therapist to simply observe the patterns upset that helped lead to eating disorders.

Nutritional therapy
The goal of nutrition therapy is to help the patient assume you can eat all you want in moderation. To achieve this, it should be free of the fear that everything you eat will make her fat. For the anorexic, this implies a wall of denial: his insistence that he likes how it looks likes it is, nothing happens, their eating habits are good. There are no psychological tricks, but the patient must face a strong test that is too thin, that feels cold all the time, it hurts to sit on a hard chair or just the 30 per cent below ideal weight for their age and height.
For bulimics, the challenge is to learn to eat small amounts of your favorite foods do not necessarily lead to binge and purge session. Toward the end of therapy is recommended that the patient's weekly menu incorporates small amounts banned soon, so make sure to consume these things does not automatically lead to a binge. If the desire to binge becomes irresistible, some doctors recommend three strategies: distraction, delay or repetition.