For adults with an eating disorder, regular daily functioning in work, school and relationships are interrupted by feelings of self-loathing, preoccupation with weight and shape, intrusive obsession with calories, and paralyzing self-doubt. The skills taught in DBT can help adults gain control over their eating disorder behaviors which will impact all areas of their life. Skill modules addressing mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness and distress tolerance empower individuals to manage their social, emotional and physical worlds with a new and expanded sense of competence and control.
For teenagers with an eating disorder, the regular trials of adolescence may be drowned-out by the war of self-loathing, preoccupation with weight and shape, intrusive obsession with calories, and paralyzing self-doubt that plagues those who suffer from eating disorders. The skills taught in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy can help teenagers gain control over their eating disorder behaviors as well over as the rest of their life. Skill modules addressing mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness and distress tolerance empower teens to manage their social, emotional, and physical worlds with an expanded sense of competence and control.