treatment

[ensembles]

Hello everyone :) if you are in the U.S., I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving yesterday

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[reillume]

It is rare that a treatment center will tell you that you need to leave as soon as you reach a certain weight; it is mostly the insurance company saying it, then the patient leaving because they have no way to pay for the treatment costs. Insurance companies make it extremely difficult to obtain the length of time it takes to do work on an eating disorder because they view it as too expensive... yet they are actually shooting themselves in the foot because the costs of hospital expenses to treat the physical repercussions of using ED symptoms costs WAY more and they do not deny these kinds of benefits. So in the long run it would actually save them money to pay for the length of time needed to work on eating disorder recovery, such as 3 months residential treatment, then a step-down structure as well, like 2 months days, then intensive outpatient, etc. However they refuse to acknowledge this kind of program and are only concerned with a "quick-fix" which obviously prevents lasting recovery

[reillume]

http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org... )

[ensembles]

you're wonderful :) thank you

[lovefromgirl]

I would suggest you ask your school librarian about academic journals. *furrows brow* Are you in high school or college? That tends to make a difference in terms of access to that sort of thing, but either way, it's worth asking about.

You may or may not find enough articles for what you're writing. I'm writing about something similar for my final paper in Medical Sociology (doctor-patient relationships and treatment outcome across several different types of treatment); and I've had to take the "design a study" option (which, thank goodness, spares me the actual research). Right now, a lot of what's relevant is still in the people, not yet in the journals, and definitely not in widely-accessible books on the subject.

[ensembles]

thank you - and I'm in college.
I agree with your comment on the accessibility.

[lovefromgirl]

Being in school online is making a huge difference for me; I've had to learn how to get at that stuff from home in a hurry. :)

[almost_home]

you could address the fact that there's no independent standardisation in place in the US to regulate treatment facilities. there's no way for a consumer to determine the quality of a facility because they're largely independent, privately run and publish their own stats.