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A Home-Based Program For Adolescents Recovering From Anorexia Nervosa And Bulimia Nervosa: The Promotion Of Recovery In The Natural Context, Rachael Gabrelcik, Kathryn Jensen

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Eating disorders (EDs) have the highest mortality rate of any mental health condition for all ages (Watt & Dickens, 2018). Eating disorders are particularly deadly in adolescents with 1.8% of adolescents dying and 17% remaining unwell long term (Beukers, Berends, de Man‐van Ginkel, van Elburg, & van Meijel, 2015). Carter et al. (2012) expressed that specialized intensive treatment for AN often produces successful responses to treatment, but the significant rate of relapse suggests that acute inpatient/day treatment alone may not be adequate to result in long lasting behavioral changes to maintain normal weight and symptom abstinence once the external structure …