title: Changes in patient measures as predictors of therapists' ratings of treatment collaboration and change in eating disorder subgroups.
abstract: This study examined how implicit and explicit changes following integrative inpatient treatment of adolescents with eating disorder (ED) may predict the posttreatment ratings of psychodynamic therapists of their patients' openness to therapeutic processes and their change (Therapist Evaluation Inventory). The relative contribution of inpatients' ego functions was compared with that of their mental distress and ED symptoms in two subgroups: restricting type anorexia (AN-R) and binging/purging type EDs (B/P). Data indicated that the implicit personality variable of elevated ability to modulate affects was the best predictor of therapist-rated global outcome among patients with B/P symptoms, whereas in patients with AN-R, evolving openness to implicit negative affects and a reduction in reported distress were best predictors. In patients with AN-R, attenuated affect control was also significantly correlated with therapist posttreatment ratings. These data point that in addition to addressing behavioral/symptomatic aspects, personality variables should be addressed in the psychological treatment of EDs.
authors.affiliation: Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
authors.forename: Lily
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rothschild-Yakar
authors.forename: Liza
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lacoua
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D052018:Bulimia Nervosa / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010343:Patient Admission; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results