“…Several studies have found differences in conflict management, defined as the set of behaviors, attitudes, strategies and tactics shown by partners, in order to interact within conflicting dynamics (Togliatti, Lavadera, & di Benedetto, 2011). In AN-B/P patientsâ families, conflict is often high and overt but unmanaged, while families members of AN-R patients tend to avoid conflicting situations or to maintain conflict unresolved (Botta & Dumlao, 2002; Darrow, Accurso, Nauman, Goldschmidt, & Le Grange, 2017; Minuchin, Rosman, & Baker, 1978; Onnis et al, 2012). The literature on separated families has shown a relationship of mutual influence between parental conflict and coparental functioning, that is the coordination and mutual support between parents responsible for the care and raising of children (McHale, 2007).…”