PMID: 20128253Feb 5, 2010Paper

Application of group psychotherapy in treatment of adolescents and young women with anorexia nervosa (presentation of therapeutic work model in the Neurosis and Eating Disorders Treatment Centre "Dabrówka"--the author's own experience)

Psychiatria polska
Bernadetta Izydorczyk, Elzbieta Niziołek

Abstract

The article shows chosen motives from the authors self experience in the specificity and principles of conducting group psychotherapy in treating patients with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. In the first part of the article, the author presents elementary postulates of the working model in teenage therapeutic groups in the Neurosis and Eating Disorders Treatment Centre "Dabrówka", in the years 2002-2004. The second part presents basic postulates of adult group psychotherapy practiced in the "Dabrówka" Centre. Conclusions indicate the main elements of a group therapy process in patients with anorexia nervosa.

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