ABSTRACT
Health services are more challenged than ever to find ways of providing effective treatments for eating disorders (EDs) with limited resources. One way of addressing this is through combining group and individual treatment protocols. It is suggested that group therapy may in fact catalyse the effects of schema therapy (ST), by providing corrective emotional learning experiences, as well as fora in which participants can begin to develop and practice new interpersonal and behavioural coping skills that heal their early maladaptive schemas (EMS). In addition, the experience of sharing similar experiences and early maladaptive schemas with other participants can counteract the experience of shame and powerlessness that many clients with ED experience, as well as providing ample opportunities to learn vicariously through others. Preliminary pilot group trials have utilised this manual with a mixed transdiagnostic ED sample.
