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Delivered in outpatient care by trained professionals with parents supervised as the primary agents of change, it is sometimes linked to Maudsley Family Therapy. 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To distinguish it from other forms of family therapy, it has sometimes been referred to as“Maudsley Family Therapy,” a reference to its initial development at the Maudsley Hospital in London.  \nFBT is a specific treatment that follows a manual and is delivered in an outpatient setting by parents supervised by trained professionals. Some residential and partial hospitalization programs incorporate principles of FBT in their programs.  \nCenters the Family  \nFBT differs significantly from traditional treatments for adolescent eating disorders. Earlier approaches to eating disorders posited that parents were to blame for the problem—this dates back as far as 1873, when William Gull wrote that “relations and friends” were “generally the worst attendants” for patients with anorexia nervosa. During the 1960s and 1970s leading treatment models for eating disorders continued to assign blame to parents, especially mothers. Eating disorders were viewed as a struggle for independence from a dysfunctional family system. The practice of removing patients from their families and sending them to treatment facilities became the norm.  \nWhile there remain providers who continue to focus on excavating a family problem that needs solving and helping a teen to individuate in order to recover, more recent research has clarified that families do not cause eating disorders. Eating disorders are now understood to be complex illnesses that result from a complicated interplay of biological, psychological, and environmental factors. FBT has been at the forefront of the research that shows that families can be an integral part of the solution, not a detriment, to their teen’s or child’s eating disorder.  \nThe Problem with Traditional Treatments  \nTraditional treatments that wait for a teen to develop insight and the motivation to get better are aliability. They waste precious time trying to find an underlying problem that likely doesn’t exist. In the meantime, the physical consequences of the eating disorder continue to ravish the young person’s health. FBT works faster than other treatments and is often more cost-effective.  \nTeens and children with eating disorders often lack the motivation to eat and get better. FBT recognizes this and can work around it. Your child will likely not want to have treatment and that is okay; FBT can work in spite of their resistance. Until your child is ready to want their own recovery, you can be the one who wants it on their behalf. No one loves your child more than you do; this uniquely poises you to help them recover.  \nWhat Exactly IS FBT?  \nFBT is a treatment that involves the whole family in solving their child’s eating disorder. Unlike  \ntraditional family therapy, it does not blame the family. In FBT, family sessions with a therapist are held  \nonce a week at first and then decrease in frequency. But because the parents are empowered to be apart of the treatment team, the treatment is much more intensive than is typically possible in outpatient treatment. FBT can often provide a level of care that is similar to residential or partial hospitalization programs (PHP) .  \nFBT typically includes at least one family meal at the beginning of treatment in the therapist’s office. This gives the therapist a chance to observe the behaviors of different family members during the meal and to assist the parents in helping their child eat.  \nFBT requires active participation by parents and leverages parents as agents of change. In FBT the core of the treatment is family meals: parents take charge of nourishing their teens with eating disorders by providing energy-dense meals. Parents plan, prepare, serve, and supervise all meals. 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