Dialectal Behavioral
Therapy for Eating Disorders...
DBT skills have been shown to be an effective adjunctive treatment for eating disorders, particularly bulimia and binge-eating. [1][2][3]
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Clients learn to effectively regulate their emotions and better tolerate distress.
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They learn to assert themselves in effective, functional ways.
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They become more mindful of their physical, emotional and cognitive process.
Often, deficiencies in one or more of these areas exacerbate the impulse to engage in pathological eating.
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