Milkshakes, Macaroni and Cheese for Anorexic Teens

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High calorie food like milkshakes, cheese and macaroni meet the demand of the anorexic teens' health helping them gain a healthy weight.

Maudsley Approach, named after the hospital in London,as what this treatment is termed as which fall under the Behavioural family therapy (BFT) is being compared with the Family Systems therapy (FST) which is more established as part of an ongoing research for kids aged between 12 and 18. This research is being carried out in the New York Presbyterian Hospital Westchester Division and five other centres in the US.

"Anorexia is a life-threatening condition. Treating it early is very important since it is during the teenage years that this disorder usually takes hold," said Katherine Halmi, founder of the Eating Disorders Program and professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College.

"Traditionally, patients with anorexia have been treated in a hospital setting or through one-on-one outpatient therapy. While inpatient treatment is still appropriate in acute cases, we have increasingly seen the value of family-oriented outpatient therapy for adolescents."

The study that is now being carried on is formed to compare two different therapeutic approaches that involve the family, one being the BFT focussed on weight, and the other assess different underlying family issues.

In the Maudsley Approach, developed in the 1980s in the hospital of which it was named after, anorexic teens attended the therapy sessions accompanied by their parents and sibblings said a Weill Cornell release.

In FST, families also take part in regular therapy sessions, however the discussions do not foucus only on eating with the family members are open to explore and challenge any problematic communication patterns or issues that causes stress within the family unit.

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