The efficacy of CBT in treating Anorexia Nervosa is inconclusive. Through reading I have not encountered many papers that discuss CBT's efficacy based on individual components - e.g. Cognitive restructuring and distortions.
Are there any interesting papers out there like this?
Thank you
This paper is not new but may be of interest. Family Based Therapy is generally the treatment of choice for adolescents with anorexia nervosa, but CBT is recommended as an individual treatment for all individuals with anorexia by most published guidelines.
In case you haven’t already, you could try adding “dismantling” to your lit review search, though I didnt see any dismantling studies with CBT or CBT-E (E stands for enhanced for eating disorders) with a quick google search. If there are any trials of say CBT vs Behavioral Activation, and BA does better or the same, maybe the cognitive components aren’t the active ingredient. Or if CBT is compared to cognitive therapy only, maybe the big C is the active ingredient.
maybe u can try interesting data in this paper Body perception treatment, a possible way to treat body image disturbance in eating disorders: a case–control efficacy study