2014
DOI: 10.1111/papt.12028
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Pre‐treatment attachment anxiety predicts change in depressive symptoms in women who complete day hospital treatment for anorexia and bulimia nervosa

Abstract: That depressive symptoms can decrease in women who complete day hospital treatment for anorexia and BN. That improvements in depressive symptoms do not vary according to eating disorder diagnosis in these women. That patients who complete treatment and who have higher attachment anxiety experience less improvements in depressive symptoms compared to those lower in attachment anxiety. That clinicians may attend to aspects of attachment anxiety, such as need for approval and up-regulation of emotions, to improve… Show more

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“…There is emerging evidence that attachment patterns can change during other kinds of group therapy. For example, women with binge eating disorder improved in their attachment during a 16-week course of group psychodynamic interpersonal therapy (Keating, Tasca, & Bissada, 2014). Further, these improvements generalized to relationships outside of the group and were present 1-year posttreatment.…”
Section: Interpersonal Learning and Attachmentmentioning
confidence: 91%
“…There is emerging evidence that attachment patterns can change during other kinds of group therapy. For example, women with binge eating disorder improved in their attachment during a 16-week course of group psychodynamic interpersonal therapy (Keating, Tasca, & Bissada, 2014). Further, these improvements generalized to relationships outside of the group and were present 1-year posttreatment.…”
Section: Interpersonal Learning and Attachmentmentioning
confidence: 91%
“…Higher pre-treatment attachment anxiety was associated with poorer outcomes in the day treatment of AN 35,54 and in group therapy for those with BED who received GCBT. 51 Conversely, higher attachment anxiety was associated with relatively better treatment outcomes for those with BED if they received GPIP.…”
Section: Attachment and Psychotherapy Processes And Outcomesmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Perfectionism and social comparison seem to mediate the association between attachment difficulties and disordered eating (Ty & Francis, ; Dias, Soares, Klein, Cunha, & Roisman, ), and insecure attachment predicts poorer treatment outcomes (Illing, Tasca, Balfour, & Bissada, ; Keating, Tasca, & Bissada, ) and dropout (Tasca & Balfour, ).…”
Section: Part 1: Bruch's Clinical Observations and Translation Into Cmentioning
confidence: 99%