Moderators of weight gain in the early stages of outpatient cognitive behavioral therapy for adults with anorexia nervosa.

Objective: Treatments for anorexia nervosa have relatively low levels of effectiveness. This prospective study examines the impact of patients' characteristics on their early responses to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anorexia nervosa.

Method: Patients' eating attitudes, body mass index, and comorbid characteristics at the outset of treatment were used to predict drop-out and changes in weight across the first 10 sessions of CBT.

Cognitive content and process in eating-disordered patients with obsessive-compulsive features.

Objective: This study examined the schema-level cognitive content and processes that might explain the presence of compulsive behaviours among patients with eating disorders.

Method: Each of 62 eating-disordered women completed standardised measures of schema-level core beliefs and cognitive processes, and was interviewed for diagnosis and obsessive compulsive features.

Results: Compulsive behaviours were associated with four core beliefs--'mistrust/abuse', 'defectiveness/shame', 'dependence/incompetence' and 'subjugation'.

The relationship between different levels of cognition and behavioural symptoms in the eating disorders.

Background: Both disorder-specific cognitions and unconditional core beliefs have been associated with eating-disordered behaviours. This study examines whether these beliefs might provide competing or complementary explanations of those behaviours.

Method: The participants were 151 women with eating disorders.

Compulsive features in the eating disorders: a role for trauma?

There is considerable evidence of a link between reported childhood trauma and the current presence of impulsive behaviors in eating-disordered populations. However, there is no research testing the possibility of links with compulsive behaviors in this group, despite evidence that both impulsive and compulsive behaviors can serve to affect regulation functions. This study of 62 eating-disordered women examined potential links between different forms of reported childhood trauma (emotional, physical, sexual) and current compulsive behaviors (cleaning, checking).