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The Impact of Social Skills Training within an Established In-Patient Treatment Programme for Anorexia Nervosa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. Pillay  and
A. H. Crisp
M. Pillay
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Psychology, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, 31 Copse Hill, London, SW20
A. H. Crisp
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, St George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE
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Summary

The paper reports a controlled study of the impact of social skills training within a longer treatment approach to patients with anorexia nervosa. Under these circumstances social skills training was not found to be a very powerful form of intervention. Possible reasons for this are touched on.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 139 , Issue 6 , December 1981 , pp. 533 - 539
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1981 

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