Effects of Childhood Emotional Abuse on Treatment Outcome in Adolescent Inpatients With Anorexia Nervosa
Emotional abuse did not affect treatment response during hospitalization for AN, but it was associated with heightened eating and general psychological symptom severity at both hospital admission and discharge. Clinicians are advised to investigate a history of emotional abuse in adolescents with AN and to consider emotional abuse not as a predictor of treatment resistance, but as a psychological scar that persists regardless of symptom severity.
Authors
- David R. Kolar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8649-5467)
- Adrian Meule (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6639-8977)
- Giammarco Cascino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0358-8594)
- Silke Naab (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9084-196X)
- Marco Carfagno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1357-1035)
- Ulrich Voderholzer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0261-3145)
- Alessio Maria Monteleone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6786-4458)
Institutions
- University of Salerno (IT)
- University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" (IT)
- LMU Klinikum (DE)
- Schön Klinik Roseneck (DE)
- University of Regensburg (DE)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Eating Disorders
- Published
- 2025-06-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.24484
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Infant Health and Development
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.07