Expand Your Horizon: Testing a Brief Writing Intervention Focused on Body Functionality Among Adolescent Girls With an Eating Disorder

These outcomes suggest that writing about body functionality leads to direct increases in positive body image but not to decreases in negative body image. An important step for future studies would be to test the full three-session version of EYH and investigate its effects over the longer term. This could help to determine the robustness of the present findings and the potential of EYH as a complementary intervention to existing treatments.