Meal-Based Exposure and Response Prevention in Anorexia Nervosa

Exposure and Response Prevention involves collaboratively developing a list of food-related fears with the patient and planning treatment sessions in which the patient is exposed to the fear and inhibits safety behaviors. The explicit goal of these exposure sessions will be to violate the patient's expectation regarding the feared stimulus, rather than to reduce fear.

"Motivational interviewing techniques including reflective listening to demonstrate empathy and understanding, asking questions to elicit change talk (speech that is pro-change), evaluating the decisional balance, and managing or rolling with resistance will be incorporated throughout the treatment sessions."