Expanding exposure‐based interventions for eating disorders
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Initial trials evaluating exposure‐based interventions for eating disorders (EDs) in the 1980s demonstrated mixed results. Since that time, innovations in exposure therapy for anxiety disorders have yielded insights that can be used to refine and expand the approach to effectively target ED behaviors. This article provides a brief summary of relevant advances in exposure therapy for anxiety and outlines how these advances may be adapted and evaluated for use with ED samples. More specifically, we propose shifting to an inhibitory learning framework, considering treatment targets other than fear, and increasing variability in exposure techniques represent three important areas for future study. Overall, this article aims to provide professionals in the field with a framework for how to incorporate cutting‐edge advances in exposure therapy into rigorous intervention research for EDs.
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Exposure treatments should target a broad set of fears and also other emotions, like disgust.
“Based on advances in research revealing the diversity of fears that play a role in eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, it has been suggested that exposure treatments should target a broad set of fears and also other emotions, like disgust [36, 53].”
From Anxiety matters: a pilot lab study into food, weight, and virtual body exposure in anorexia nervosa (2024) · cites this paper as [53]
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- Authors
- Reilly, E. E., Anderson, L. M., Gorrell, S., Schaumberg, K., & Anderson, D. A.
- Affiliations
- University of California San Diego (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- University at Albany, State University of New York (US)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Anderson, Drew A.
- Venue
- International Journal of Eating Disorders
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-08-16
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1137-1141
- ISSN
- 0276-3478 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-108X
- PMC
- PMC5814124
- OpenAlex
- W2750234042
- Cited by
- 77
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 8.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- International Journal of Eating Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (T32MH076694)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Keywords
- eating disorders, exposure therapy, inhibitory learning, anxiety disorders
- MeSH terms
- Feeding and Eating Disorders, Humans, Implosive Therapy
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