ABSTRACT

Modifying family criticism is seen as a central issue throughout the work. Lock and Le Grange demonstrate various approaches to achieving this. One is the declaration that parents do not cause eating disorders. Unlike Maudsley Model Family Therapy, Family-Based Treatment maintains the use of the family lunch session but in a very different form. The manual retains the use of the family meal session, but in a form very different to the original. The style of the work illustrated in the manual is very different to that of most approaches to family therapy. Probably a family therapist's would be to stay with the mother's feelings for longer. Earlier generations of family therapists could calibrate their approach to different family relationship patterns. Family therapists who took the view that anorexia was the result of family processes do not seem to have been less effective than those later therapists who explicitly denied this.