title: Family therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Research into the efficacy and practice of family therapy for the treatment of adolescent anorexia nervosa has been ongoing for the past 4 decades. Research results continue to highlight the effective role of family therapy for the treatment of anorexia in adolescents. This review aims to present findings and opinions from relevant articles published over the past 12 months, related to the treatment of adolescent anorexia, utilizing family therapy and multi-family therapy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A number of recent articles continue to explore family therapy for adolescent anorexia, with particular emphasis being placed on attempting to pinpoint those elements of the approaches that may hold significance in relation to recovery from this dangerous illness and the development of new interventions that draw on the evidence to date for a family approach to the treatment of anorexia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ongoing research is needed to identify the active ingredients of family therapy for anorexia.
authors.affiliation: The Maudsley Hospital, DeCrespigny Park, Off Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AZ, UK.
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Blessitt
authors.forename: Stamatoula
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Voulgari
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Eisler
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans