Fathers in the spotlight: parental burden and the effectiveness of a parental skills training for anorexia nervosa in mother-father dyads

CONCLUSIONS: These findings show that fathers are a great resource for the child's eating disorder treatment as they may counterbalance maternal emotional overinvolvement and over-protection. Furthermore, this is the first study demonstrating that fathers can profit from a parental skills training for anorexia nervosa in a similar way as mothers.LEVEL III: Evidence obtained from well-designed cohort or case-control analytic studies.PMID:37526742 | DOI:10.1007/s40519-023-01597-6

Source: Eating and weight disorders : EWD - August 1, 2023 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Authors: Michael Zeiler Julia Philipp Stefanie Truttmann Tanja Wittek Konstantin Kopp Gabriele Sch öfbeck Dunja Mairhofer Ellen Auer-Welsbach Eva Staab Andreas Karwautz Gudrun Wagner Source Type: research