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Family Therapy with Eating-Disordered Adolescents

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Eating disorders represent potentially life-threatening conditions that impede physical, emotional, and behavioral growth and development. The prognosis is positive if an adolescent’s eating disorder is treated soon after its onset; otherwise, the disorder may become a chronic condition by adulthood, with devastating and sometimes irreversible medical, behavioral, and emotional consequences (Lask & Bryant-Waugh, 1993).

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Robin, A.L., Siegel, P.T. (1999). Family Therapy with Eating-Disordered Adolescents. In: Russ, S.W., Ollendick, T.H. (eds) Handbook of Psychotherapies with Children and Families. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4755-6_16

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