“…In families of patients with AN, high parental EE has been associated with treatment dropout and poor treatment outcome (Le Grange, Eisler, Dare, & Hodes, ; Szmukler, Eisler, Russell, & Dare, ), with some studies finding a particularly important role for maternal criticism (Eisler, Simic, Russell, & Dare, ; van Furth et al, ), whereas parental warmth has been found to predict good treatment outcome (Le Grange et al, ). In adult women with eating disorders, parental criticism is stressful and associated with worse eating disorder symptomatology (Medina‐Pradas, Navarro, Lopez, Grau, & Obiols, ). In spite of the fact that families of patients with eating disorders have lower rates of high EE than those with schizophrenia (Vaughn & Leff, ), EE nevertheless seems to play an important role in eating disorder treatment.…”