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Abstract
This report describes a multidisciplinary residential treatment approach for adolescents with eating disorders. It presents data on treatment efficacy and analyzes long term follow-up results focusing on nutritional and behavioral interventions delivered in a systematic residential setting. Residents were evaluated at admission, discharge, and follow-up (M=24 months post-discharge) using a panel of well-established psychological measures (EDE-Q, BDI, YBOC, STAI). The results showed both statistically and clinically significant reductions in eating disorder symptomology between admission and discharge. At the end of residential treatment, symptoms of anxiety, depression and obsessive compulsive behaviors had decreased to within the norms of non-diseased populations, and there was little regression from discharge to follow-up. Weight gains were also sustained after discharge. These results indicate that a multidisciplinary model to treat eating disorders in a residential setting is an effective approach to treat these disorders and further supports the need to grow residential care in behavioral health settings.