CHILD & ADOLESCENT
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Eating Disorder Research: Klarman Eating Disorder Center
Abstract submitted as a poster presentation for the
AED International Conference on Eating Disorders
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 2005
Why Change? Giving Personal Feedback to Enhance Motivation in the
Treatment of Adolescent Girls with Eating Disorders
Nicole Noffsinger-Frazier, Alan Shields, Joshua Hrabrosky, Sherrie Delinsky,
Philip Levendusky, & Mandakini Awasthy
Klarman Center for Eating Disorders, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA
Abstract
Motivational Interviewing (MI) methods have long been employed in the field of addictions to increase patient readiness to change, enhance compliance, and improve treatment outcome (Miller, 2004). Utilizing structured assessment feedback along with an MI style has been supported in decreasing problem behaviors and increasing motivation among addictions patients (Miller, 2004). A handful of studies have examined the efficacy of a brief MI intervention with adult eating disorder patients and have found that readiness and motivation to change increased as a result of the intervention (Feld, Woodside, Kaplan, Olmsted, & Carter, 2000; Treasure et al., 1999). Based on the available literature, it appears that when MI methods have been applied to eating disorder patients they have not typically included a structured assessment feedback component. Rather, these studies focus on utilizing MI techniques in the context of group and/or individual therapy. The purpose of the current study is to extend the literature in this area by conducting an MI intervention with adolescent girls diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and eating disorder NOS, focusing specifically on the structured assessment feedback component. Participants were adolescent girls ages 13 to 22 in a residential eating disorder treatment facility. Participants completed measures of eating disorder symptomatology, readiness for change, and psychosocial problems. A personal feedback report was developed to provide clinicians with a framework around which they could provide patients with systematic feedback about their symptomatology and readiness to change as compared to normative data. The poster presentation will present components of the personal feedback report and performance characteristics of the assessment measures utilized within this population.
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