ABSTRACT
Eating disorders (EDs), particularly anorexia nervosa (AN), exert a profound negative impact on a patient’s behavioral, cognitive, affective, and physiological states, with psychosocial, psychiatric, and medical sequelae (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The broad-range insults these disorders introduce in a patient’s system require a comprehensive treatment approach that includes perspectives, assessments, and interventions from multiple disciplines. Nowhere is this more critical in the developmental pathway than during childhood and adolescence, where AN can disrupt normal development, at times with irreversible effects (Katzman, 2005). At a minimum, the treatment team for AN will consist of a mental health clinician who can deliver an evidence-based psychological intervention, and a collaborating medical provider. For youth, this team is typically a practitioner of Family-Based Treatment (FBT; Lock & Le Grange, 2013) plus a pediatrician or adolescent medicine specialist.
