Parent Coaching Model for Adolescents With Emotional Eating

Eat Disord. 2015;23(4):377-86. doi: 10.1080/10640266.2015.1044352. Epub 2015 May 26.

Abstract

A significant proportion of both healthy and treatment-seeking youth report eating for emotional reasons. Emotional eating (EE) is associated with medical and psychological sequelae including overeating and eating disorder symptoms. Youth with EE are thought to have a predisposition toward a high level of emotional sensitivity, with a tendency to experience emotions intensely, and for a long duration. Interventions are needed to address emotion dysregulation associated with EE. Parent-focused interventions that emphasize training parents to respond to emotion dysregulation in their children have the potential to reduce the incidence of EE. This article describes an emotion-focused parent training intervention for youth who engage in EE.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Biobehavioral Sciences
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Emotions*
  • Family Therapy*
  • Feeding and Eating Disorders / psychology
  • Feeding and Eating Disorders / therapy*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hyperphagia / psychology*
  • Hyperphagia / therapy
  • Male
  • Parents / education*