ABSTRACT
The child and adolescent treatment programme was designed and developed within the South London and Maudsley (SLaM) Intensive Treatment Programme (ITP). This is part of the wider National and Specialist Child and Adolescent Eating Disorder Service (CAEDS). The ITP was set up in September 2010 for young people with anorexia nervosa (AN) or eating disorder not otherwise specified restrictive type (EDNOS-R), who require more intensive support than outpatient care and as an alternative to inpatient admission. The ITP aims to increase a young person's motivation for recovery, establish a regular and more flexible eating pattern, achieve consistent weight gain and maintenance, treat maintaining factors of the disorder and foster reintegration to school and with peer group. Young people attend a variety of therapeutic groups based on cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) including mindfulness, motivational interviewing (MI), mentalisation based art psychotherapy and cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) and yoga.
