TY - JOUR
T1 - Scientist-practitioner family therapists, postmodern medical practitioners and expert parents
T2 - Second-order change in the eating disorders program at the children's hospital at Westmead
AU - Rhodes, Paul
AU - Madden, Sloane
PY - 2005/5
Y1 - 2005/5
N2 - The Maudsley model of family-based treatment for anorexia integrates a variety of schools of family therapy, and has been developed and supported by a number of randomized controlled trials. In this paper we will describe the systemic organizational changes that have occurred as a result of the inclusion of this model in the Eating Disorders Program at The Children's Hospital at Westmead over an eighteen-month period, including a process of mutual influence between medical practitioners and family therapists. These changes have contributed towards a dramatic improvement in clinical outcomes including a significant drop in readmission rates to hospital.
AB - The Maudsley model of family-based treatment for anorexia integrates a variety of schools of family therapy, and has been developed and supported by a number of randomized controlled trials. In this paper we will describe the systemic organizational changes that have occurred as a result of the inclusion of this model in the Eating Disorders Program at The Children's Hospital at Westmead over an eighteen-month period, including a process of mutual influence between medical practitioners and family therapists. These changes have contributed towards a dramatic improvement in clinical outcomes including a significant drop in readmission rates to hospital.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=18144372402&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2005.00309.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2005.00309.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:18144372402
SN - 0163-4445
VL - 27
SP - 171
EP - 182
JO - Journal of Family Therapy
JF - Journal of Family Therapy
IS - 2
ER -