ABSTRACT
Over the past 25 years, family-based therapy (FBT) has emerged as the first-line treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN) and has shown promise in the treatment of adolescents with bulimia (BN) (Le Grange, Lock, Agras, Bryson, & Booil, 2015) and young adults with eating disorders (Downs & Blow, 2013). One central premise in FBT posits that adolescents with eating disorders are often unable to make decisions that will foster recovery due to the ego-syntonicity, ambivalence, and treatment resistance that is so often inherent in eating disorders (Halmi, 2009), and thus parents must be empowered to lead their child’s eating in order to restore weight and normalize eating patterns (Lock & Le Grange, 2012).
