Florida FBT Group
- Family Based Treatment
- One or two families at a time
- All family members attend including siblings
- Emphasis on family involvement in treatment
- Aimed at preventing inpatient for children and adolescents when possible
- Provide incredible resources
- Family based therapy
- Family Contracting
- Education & Support Groups
- Parent coaching & careers sessions
- Works with binging and over-eating too
- Cognitive Behavioral
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FBT Has a Beginning and End
Evidence Shows...
- FBT should be the first line intervention for adolescents with AN who are medically fit for outpatient treatment
- FBT is superior in promoting full remission in children at follow-up
- More participants treated with FBT reached weight restoration by 3 months
- Most patieents respond favorably after relatively few treatment sessions if illness is recognized early on
