The use of a cognitive therapy approach makes it feasible to directly explore and question common assumptions about the importance of weight and shape. Having aired these assumptions, clients can decide whether they wish to continue to espouse them, modify them, or replace them with alternative ones.
At a deeper level too, the approach makes it feasible to address more personal issues regarding self-worth. So, while the therapy takes on board the task of tackling individual assumptions about the importance of weight and shape, it also challenges underlying core beliefs about the personal identity of sufferers.
CBT emphasizes homework, goal setting, and self-monitoring.
The advantages of group therapy in general have been described by Yalom (1985) and include altruism, installation of hope, interpersonal learning, and modeling.
If you look on this issue from another point of view you can see that when group members start educating each other they can also teach each other not only things that may help them to fight their eating disorder but also the tips and tricks how to be a better anorexic-bulimic and more sneaky.
By sharing with and listening to others, patients learn that they are not alone in their suffering, their feelings and their experience of having an eating disorder. It can enhance a person 's self-esteem just to realize that she is neither crazy nor alone.
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Cognitive-Behavioral Eating Disorder Therapy
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy that draws a connection between thoughts, actions, emotions, and physiological