CBT and Bulimia Nervosa

CBT and Bulimia Nervosa

The paper written by Pretorius, et. al. (2009) basically provides the reader evidence regarding the cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescents with bulimic symtomatology. The purpose of the study was to assess the viability, adequacy, and clinical conclusion of the web-based technique covering the cognitive behavioral intervention in the case of adolescents who suffering from bulimic symptomatology. To make the research effective, the researchers selected 101 participants that were recruited from the clinics that having problem of eating disorders from the UK most popular and famous eating disorder charity. The program was based on an online session of CBT, which consisted of the emails from the clinician and peer support through messages. However, the participants suffering from the bulimic symptomatology gone through the session of interviews after 3 and 6 months to look for the desired outcomes in them. Similarly, the results shown that there was a significant change in the eating disorder of the participants after 6 months interview. Therefore, the researchers concluded that the intervention can possibly used as the first step for the treatment of bulimic symptomatology in the adolescents.

The second study selected by the author is the study published by Mitchell, et. al., 2011. In this paper, the researchers stated that the study basically prove a point that the best available technique for the bulimia nervosa in adolescents is the CBT, similarly, if the treatment influenced by the stepped-care treatment approach than it will lead to greater effectiveness of the method. The methodology adopted by the researchers was that they randomly selected 4 clinical centres and total 239 participants suffering from bulimia nervosa were selected. For this purpose, the researchers selected to treatment conditions. First is the manual based CBT that was delivered as an individual therapy for almost 20 sessions lasted form 18 weeks, similarly, 6 sessions were based on the CBT added fluoxetine in the treatment. The results showed that intent to treat and complete samples had no difference between the 2 different treatment conditions. The therapist concluded that first level treatment in the stepped care sequence was more effective than CBT.

The third research paper selected by the author is written by Schmidt, et. al., (2007). In this paper, the researchers presented that no empirical trail focused on the treatment of adolescents suffering from bulimia nervosa. The purpose of this research is to compare the cost effectiveness and efficacy of family therapy and CBT with bulimia nervosa. For the research purpose, 85 adolescents were selected with bulimia nervosa. The primary outcome of the therapy was the binge-eating and vomiting. However, the result showed that 41 participants assigned with the family therapy and the remaining 44 were gone through the CBT.

The fourth paper selected by the author for this paper was written by Anderson and Maloney (2001). The researchers mentioned that CBT considered being the best therapy for the treatment of Bulimia nervosa worldwide. An interesting fact that was proved by the researchers was that almost 40-50% of the ...