Bridging the gap between cognitive neuroscience and clinical practice: Temperament Based Therapy with Support (TBT-S) – A bottom-up approach to anorexia nervosa treatment

titleBridging the gap between cognitive neuroscience and clinical practice: Temperament Based Therapy with Support (TBT-S) – A bottom-up approach to anorexia nervosa treatment
start_date2025/06/06
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summaryTemperament Based Therapy with Support (TBT-S) is an emerging neurobiologically-informed skills-based family intervention for adults with anorexia nervosa (AN). It leverages findings from cognitive neuroscience to address the neurobiological underpinnings of AN, providing a structured bottom-up framework that targets reward and motivational deficits associated with this illness. TBT-S integrates neurobiological psychoeducation and structured skills training to enhance symptom management through a strength-based framework. Rather than pathologizing temperament traits commonly associated with AN, TBT-S leverages these characteristics as adaptive assets in the recovery process. Preliminary open trials suggest that TBT-S is associated with reductions in eating disorder symptoms and improvements in motivation for recovery.
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