Parenting skills after participation in skills-based training inspired by the New Maudsley Method: a qualitative study in an outpatient eating disorder setting.

Background: Eating disorders affect the whole family and it is recommended that parents play an important role in their adolescents' recovery. Being a parent to an adolescent with an eating disorder is often linked to feelings of guilt and hopelessness and at the same time parents often feel left alone with unmet needs when it comes to handling symptoms in family life. Little is known about parents' perspectives to skills-based training in adolescent eating disorder treatment.