Volume 21, Issue 2
Multilevel Intervention in the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The role of the family
Abstract
Eating disorders, as well as other clinical entities, are due to a multiplicity of factors, biological, psychological and social, and assume diverse presentations, both in terms of their severity and the profile that the set of symptoms, traits, patterns of cognitive processing and of relationship with significant others adopt. The modalities of intervention with better results are those that reflect this complexity and focus from the first interventions on the multiplicity of factors involved. This paper aims to review the role of the family in the conformation of the psychopathological processes at the level of vulnerability to develop the disorder and its maintenance over time and, also, to describe the modalities of participation of the family in the multilevel treatment.
Keywords
multilevel treatment, family, eating disorders, modalities of intervention