[Body Exposure for Eating Disorders: Technique and Relevance for Therapy Outcome.]

[Body Exposure for Eating Disorders: Technique and Relevance for Therapy Outcome.]

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Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol. 2013 Feb 4;
Vossbeck-Elsebusch AN, Vocks S, Legenbauer T

The main interventions in the treatment of eating disorders aim at the normalization of the potentially life threatening disordered eating behavior. During the past years, interventions for the improvement of body image have been implemented in the treatment. Body exposure is an important technique in body image therapy. Our article introduces the role of body image in eating disorders and gives an overview of current research regarding effectiveness and effects of therapeutic interventions on the different components of body image. The second part describes the therapeutic technique of body exposure. Taken together, body exposure can be viewed as a promising technique for the improvement of therapy outcomes in eating disorders.
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Positive core beliefs and their relationship to eating disorder symptoms in women.

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Eur Eat Disord Rev. 2013 Mar; 21(2): 155-9
Cooper MJ, Proudfoot J

Positive core beliefs, compared with negative self or negative core beliefs, are relatively neglected in the eating disorder (ED) research literature, despite their significance in treatment. Using a sample of younger women and relevant to those who typically experience EDs, this study outlines a new measure of positive core beliefs and examines its psychometric properties. On the basis of factor analysis, two subscales were developed: positive social self beliefs and positive individual self beliefs. The measure had good internal consistency and good construct validity. Positive individual self beliefs predicted low levels of ED symptoms when confounds were controlled. Positive social self beliefs predicted low levels of depressive symptoms, when confounds were controlled. Positive core beliefs would benefit from further study in subclinical and clinical ED groups of younger women. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.
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A placebo-controlled pilot study of the novel opioid receptor antagonist ALKS-33 in binge eating disorder.

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Int J Eat Disord. 2013 Feb 5;
McElroy SL, Guerdjikova AI, Blom TJ, Crow SJ, Memisoglu A, Silverman BL, Ehrich EW

OBJECTIVE: To assess preliminarily the effectiveness of a novel opioid antagonist, ALKS-33, in binge eating disorder (BED). METHOD: In this randomized, placebo-controlled, flexible dose, proof-of-concept trial, 62 outpatients with BED and obesity received ALKS-33 (N = 26) or placebo (N = 36) for 6 weeks. Outcome measures of binge eating, body weight, and eating pathology were assessed. RESULTS: A large decrease in binge eating episode frequency was observed following both ALKS-33 and placebo treatment. There was no significant difference between treatment groups in binge eating episode frequency or any other measure of binge eating, body weight, or eating pathology. DISCUSSION: In this preliminary proof-of-concept study in BED, ALKS-33 did not separate from placebo. Although a failed trial cannot be excluded, the finding is consistent with earlier observations in bulimia nervosa with other opioid antagonists and suggests ALKS-33, at least when administered daily for 6 weeks, may not be efficacious for BED. © 2013 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Int J Eat Disord 2013).
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