{"id":13350,"date":"2013-05-31T15:13:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T19:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=13350"},"modified":"2013-06-03T21:21:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T01:21:12","slug":"study-suggests-emotion-focused-therapy-may-help-with-binge-eating-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/05\/study-suggests-emotion-focused-therapy-may-help-with-binge-eating-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests emotion-focused therapy may help with binge eating disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em>Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics<\/em> press release via AlphaGalileo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"food choices\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/healthy_food_choices.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"205\" \/><strong>The combination of psychotherapy with dietary counseling (DC) might be a potential useful strategy<\/strong> to improve both eating disorder psychopathology and body weight in patients with BED.<\/p>\n<p>Recent <strong>research seems to support a model of binge eating that includes emotional vulnerability and a deficit of skills<\/strong> that functionally modulate negative emotions, a mechanism not directly addressed by both cognitive behavior and interpersonal psychotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is a psychological treatment designed to address the cognitive and interpersonal experiential perspective of emotions.<\/p>\n<p>We report the results of a naturalistic study that evaluated the effect of EFT , DC to reduce the consumption of energy-dense food, and combined treatment (CT) in treatment-seeking patients with BED and obesity. 189 patients who met DSM-IV research criteria for BED were included in the study. Participants received EFT administered via 20 group sessions. <strong>A proportion of cases between 44.4% and 74.6% achieved the 5% weight loss target by the end of treatment, depending on the type of treatment<\/strong>. CT was superior to other treatments.<\/p>\n<p>At the 6-month follow-up, EFT, either alone or in combination with DC, significantly increased the outcome rate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From a clinical point of view, our results show that EFT, a psychotherapy focused on the cognitive and interpersonal experiential perspectives of emotions associated with DC<\/strong>, produces promising results on binge eating remission, weight loss, binge eating behavior and health-related quality of life in treatment-seeking BED patients with obesity.<\/p>\n<p>The data also suggest that the combination of EFT and DC might be a promising strategy to produce both an improvement of the eating disorder psychopathology and a healthy amount of weight loss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics press release via AlphaGalileo: The combination of psychotherapy with dietary counseling (DC) might be a potential useful strategy to improve both eating disorder&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/05\/study-suggests-emotion-focused-therapy-may-help-with-binge-eating-disorder\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10,336],"tags":[223,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13350"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13501,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350\/revisions\/13501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}