“…These include in-patient and outpatient treatment and self-help approaches involving individual and group therapies, antidepressant medication, and support and self-help groups. Studies have shown that ongoing, prolonged use of recovery management strategies lead to BN symptom reduction and greater self-reported subjective well-being (Kurtz, 1997;Schiff, 2000). Because bulimia is reported as a chronic disorder in most published reports (Eckert, Halmi, Marchi, Grove, & Crosby, 1995;Strober, Freeman, & Morell, 1997) and the expense related to ongoing clinical treatment may be prohibitive for many individuals, there is a need to consider the role of self-help treatments in the ongoing recovery process of individuals with bulimia nervosa.…”