Psychological Treatment of Binge-Eating Disorder: A Case Study

Authors

  • Ligiana Mihaela PETRE PhD, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, University of Bucharest, Romania

Keywords:

binge eating, psychological treatment, behavioural techniques,, creative-expressive techniques, creative meditation

Abstract

We present an integrative, experiential-based, psychological treatment for binge-eating disorder (BED). The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory III (MCMI-III), Eating Disorder Inventory 3 (EDI-3), Social Cognitive Scales of Healthy Eating Behavior have used pre- and post-treatment for the assessment of the personality features and associated symptoms, binge-eating symptomatology and eating behavior. The experiential psychotherapy consisted of 10 sessions. The reflective, mindfulness-based strategies, creative-expressive and behavioral techniques were focused both on the psychological maladaptive mechanisms, and symptoms of the BED. The psychological treatment reduced the BED symptomatology and depressive symptoms associated with BED.

Published

2019-11-21

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2019): RAIS Journal for Social Sciences

Section

Articles

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