| Treatment Options | Description |
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| Counseling and psychotherapy | Treatment may involve individual, group, or family counseling. The focus of counseling and psychotherapy can be on nutrition, psychological issues, or thoughts and behaviors surrounding the eating disorder. |
| Health care and medical monitoring | Many eating disorders result in serious medical crises. Medical monitoring and care are critical when it comes to the patient’s health. |
| Drug therapies | Although drugs will not prevent, cure, or restore an individual to a normal weight, drug therapies may be useful in treating the mood issues (often anxiety and depression) that can accompany eating disorders. |
| Effective treatment of eating disorders often involves a combination of approaches tailored to the individual. This tends to be more effective than one type of treatment alone. |
| SOURCE: ADAPTED FROM NIMH (2011). |