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The role of the primary care practitioner in the treatment of eating disorders.
Adolescent Medicine 2003 Februrary
This article addresses practical issues facing the primary care practitioner caring for an adolescent with an eating disorder. It is grounded in the four elements of successful treatment noted by Comerci: (1) recognizing the disorder and restoring physiologic stability early in its course, (2) establishing a trusting, therapeutic partnership with the adolescent, (3) involving the family in treatment, and (4) using an interdisciplinary team approach. Although primary care practitioners often have an established relationship with their patients, adolescents with eating disorders present special challenges. These adolescents tend to be bright, strong-willed, and wary of any recommendations to change their weight-control practices for fear that they will lose control. Their families are often distraught by the conflicts that arise as a result of the disordered eating behaviors and the fear that the condition is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The article provides primary care clinicians with pragmatic ways to diagnose and initiate treatment and engage the patient and parents as active participants and members of the therapeutic team in the early phases of treatment. In addressing these principles, the authors combine the nurturant-authoritative approach described by Levenkron with the biopsychosocial model proposed by Engel.
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