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Cognitive Restructuring

This is the process of learning how faulty thinking can promote negative outcomes. Therapist teaching the client to change such irrational beliefs and substitute more rational ones. This is accomplished in teaching the patient with eating disorders how to challenge their detrimental thought habits and substitute life-enhancing thoughts and beliefs.

Expressive writing

Those patients with eating disorders often come from a traumatic background, it is important to allow the patient to express past traumatic events in such safe settings as writing.

Food records

This allows for therapists and patients alike to see the types of food the patients are eating.