allows them to picture what it will feel like when they get there. The fourth principle is to develop a working contract. This enables patients to feel progress as they come closer to recovery. The fifth principle is to use a team approach. This essentially allows everyone in the patients’ lives to get involved. The sixth principle is to negotiate the end of therapy at the beginning. This gives both the therapists and the patients a goal to reach for. The last principle is to assign homework. This allows the patients to work on their problems between therapy sessions (Lemberg and Cohn 155-158). Both of these treatments have a good start on the recovery to eating disorders. The most important part of recovery from eating disorders is the success of the treatments used. Case studies and statistics are the two most valid ways to determine their success. The mental treatments of eating disorders have both great statistics and case studies. Out of at least 20 studies that evaluated the efficiency of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy the majority found that CBT is the best treatment for bulimia. The majority of recent studies have also shown that CBT is useful in preventing relapse in anorexia nervosa (Lemberg and Cohn 128). Case studies are more difficult to sort through. Yet the studies of CBT and Solution-Based Brief Therapy have been very helpful in the validation of the two treatments. In a case study of a 21-year-old bulimic using CBT, she was free of binge eating and vomiting by the fourth month and had reduced her exercise to 45 minutes, four days a week. She also began to exercise for health rather than the simple ridding the body of calories (Lemberg and Cohn 132). The success of this treatment should give society hope for the future.Overcoming an eating disorder is a lifetime process that must consist, in part, of psychological treatment. Eating disorders will continue to be a problem in society far into the fut...
