Dalle Grave, R. (2020). Psychology Today, Apr 24, 2020
The pandemic spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has created a major outbreak around the world, and many governments have placed their countries on lockdown. As a result, psychological treatments for patients with eating disorders are now less available than usual. This problematic situation urgently requires a new way to deliver psychological treatments, given that face-to-face treatment is often no longer viable.
A potential solution to partially address this problem is to remotely deliver enhanced cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E), an evidence-based psychological treatment for eating disorders.
CBT-E is well suited for distance therapy
CBT-E is well suited to be delivered via teletherapy. The patient and therapist can easily talk remotely through online video calls. Despite the absence of data on delivering distance CBT-E, it should still be possible to develop a good collaborative therapeutic relationship and deliver most aspects of treatment. Indeed, most of the non-verbal communication aspects of the therapeutic relationship are only slightly compromised by virtual sessions.
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