“I’m still here, but no one hears you”: a qualitative study of young women’s experiences of persistent distress post family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa

Abstract

There is a need to develop and research treatments that address, from the outset of treatment, the adolescents' psychological distress (including as experienced in the context of their weight restoration). This should be with priority accorded to the adolescent's voice and identity negotiations, as they and their families take steps to address the physical crisis of AN and in doing so, support more holistic and durable recovery.