It’s Time To Redefine E.D. Treatment
Creating a nurturing home plays a pivotal role in recovery. Family support in eating disorder recovery leads to higher success rates and stronger resilience. Let's make home a foundation of healing.
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Research indicates that home based recovery leads to higher rates of full remission from anorexia nervosa compared to traditional hospital-based treatments. Studies have found that approximately 40-50% of adolescents doing family based treatment achieve full remission at the end of treatment, compared to around 20-30% with traditional treatments.
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Home based treatment has been associated with lower relapse rates compared to hospital-based treatments. Long-term follow-up studies have shown that a significant proportion of adolescents who did home based and family focused recovery maintained their recovery even several years after completing treatment.
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Home based treatment is typically a shorter-term treatment compared to hospital-based treatments. While the exact duration of treatment may vary depending on individual circumstances, family focused and home based treatment often lasts for around 6-12 months, whereas hospital-based treatments may require longer periods of hospitalization and intensive therapy.
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Home based recovery emphasizes the importance of family involvement and empowers parents to take an active role in their child's recovery. By focusing on refeeding and restoring weight within the family context, home based recovery aims to address the underlying dynamics that contribute to the eating disorder and strengthen family relationships.
The Benefits Of Home-Based Recovery
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Protective Factors
Being in the home environment for the recovery process offers a protective factor; a safe "known" in a journey of unknowns for the individual.
Protective factors are characteristics associated with a lower likelihood of negative outcomes or that reduce a risk factor's impact. Protective factors may be seen as positive countering events, and can help people more effectively manage stressful events, and strengthen other characteristics that minimize the risk of mental health challenges.
Together, protective factors and coping skills can bolster resilience – a person’s ability to “bounce back” or overcome adversity. Resilience involves behaviors, thoughts and actions that can be learned and developed in anyone over time.
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Reduce "Boomerang Effect"
We believe that recovery that happens IN your life instead of being removed FROM your life allows the individual and family unit to heal together right from day one. Instead of treatment happening in isolation, removed from the home and removed from their everyday life, our philosophy is to integrate recovery into life immediately.
It is said that "genetics load the gun, environment pulls the trigger", so to expect lasting change and health in an environment that once facilitated the eating disorder is often an unrealistic expectation.
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You Know Your Child Best
Parents and caregivers know their children best.
You are the best resource to establish meaningful patient-centered treatment outcomes. Parents and caregivers are often well-suited to observe change over time that may not be acknowledged by patients in the grips of the disorder or readily detected by others, such as clinicians.
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Enhanced Quality of Life:
Family involvement can contribute to improved overall well-being and quality of life for individuals recovering from eating disorders. Having a supportive family environment can reduce stress and anxiety, improve self-esteem, and foster healthier relationships with food and body image.