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The development and application of compassion-focused therapy for eating disorders (CFT-E)
1Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry Eating Disorder Service, Coventry, UK.
Objectives:
This article outlines specific developments in compassion-focused therapy (CFT) for the treatment of patients with an eating disorder.
Methods:
The article provides a narrative review based on the existing literature and current practices of CFT for eating disorders (CFT-E).
Results:
The role of shame, self-criticism, self-directed hostility, and difficulties in generating and experiencing affiliative emotion in patients with an eating disorder is highlighted. The article describes how CFT-E uniquely addresses these issues and discusses the current evidence base for CFT-E. It also provides an outline of recent and potential future developments in CFT-E.
Conclusions:
CFT-E offers a promising treatment for adult outpatients who present to specialist eating disorder services with restricting and binge/purging eating disorders. Recent developments include treatment protocols for patients who are low weight and have an eating disorder and for those presenting with obesity.
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