A Therapeutic Team’s Interventions and Their Perception of Parental Reactions Towards Them: A Child’s Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa

Abstract

This article explores the family consultations during the inpatient treatment of children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa. There were three study goals: to explore the therapeutic team’s interventions, to study the team’s perception of parental reactions toward the interventions, and to compare two groups of parents. Medical records of 32 were analyzed using Consensual Qualitative Research. There were eight categories of interventions discussed. Parents with better cooperation were more concentrated on their personal experiences (p = 0.005), whereas parents with poorer cooperation had more work on marital conflict (p = 0.004). Bereavement also appeared to be a particularly important theme.