title: Being me and being us - adolescents' experiences of treatment for eating disorders.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This qualitative study addresses adolescents' perception of treatment for eating disorders. The importance of involving parents in treatment of young people with eating disorders, especially young people with Anorexia Nervosa, is emphasized in a number of studies. Even so, this form of treatment does not work for everybody, not even within a limited diagnostic group. Previous research has revealed that many young people are not entirely satisfied with their treatment. However, there is a lack of knowledge concerning the perspectives of adolescents in outpatient treatment, whose treatment often involves family. The aim of the present study was to investigate how young people with experience from adolescent outpatient treatment for eating disorders, involving family-based and individual based interventions, perceive their time in treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was conducted using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. Fifteen participants were recruited in collaboration with four specialized eating disorder units and interviewed with the purpose to gather narratives.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The analysis revealed that the adolescents sometimes felt more or less forced into treatment, and strong ambivalent feelings about if and how to participate in treatment permeated the adolescents' narratives. The common factors which emerged in the narratives were assembled under the two major themes: Having to involve family in treatment - in one way or another and Making progress in treatment - a matter of trust.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is of great importance to involve family in treatment in order to understand the problems of the adolescents in their context and be able to take advantage of the resource that parents constitute. However, in certain situations, it is necessary to prioritise individual treatment interventions so that instead of sorting out difficult family situations the therapist focuses on enhancing the young people's resilience, thus enabling them to tackle problematic situations in life.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden.
authors.forename: Katarina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lindstedt
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden.
authors.forename: Kerstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Neander
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden.
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kjellin
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden.
authors.forename: Sanna Aila
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Gustafsson
keywords: Adolescents; Eating disorders; Family involvement; Patients’ perspective; Qualitative research; Treatment
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