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¹Eating and Weight Disorders Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA. tom.hildebrandt@mssm.edu

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Summary

Acceptance-based mirror exposure therapy (A-MET) effectively reduced body checking, body image dissatisfaction, and eating disorder symptoms in individuals with healthy weights. This promising adjunctive treatment showed lasting benefits at follow-up.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Eating Disorder Research

Background:

Mirror exposure therapy (MET) is effective for body image issues in eating disorders.
Limited research exists on MET's efficacy in healthy-weight clinical populations with eating disorders.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate acceptance-based mirror exposure therapy (A-MET) versus a non-directive control (ND) as adjunctive treatment for eating disorders.
To assess A-MET's impact on body image and eating disorder symptoms in a healthy-weight sample.

Main Methods:

A randomized controlled trial involving 33 participants (aged 14-65) with a BMI of 18.5-29.9.
Participants received five sessions of either A-MET or ND therapy, with a 1-month follow-up.
Outcome measures included body checking, body image dissatisfaction, and eating disorder symptoms.

Main Results:

A-MET demonstrated large to moderate effect sizes in reducing body checking, body image dissatisfaction, and eating disorder symptoms.
Treatment efficacy was observed at both the end of treatment and the 1-month follow-up.
Baseline social comparison and appearance-related teasing predicted treatment response.

Conclusions:

A-MET is a promising adjunctive therapy for residual body image disturbances in normal and overweight individuals with eating disorders.
The therapy showed significant improvements in key outcome measures.
Further research and clinical applications of A-MET are warranted.