Multimodal behavioral treatment of anorexia nervosa in childhood and adolescence

After introducing the clinical phenomena and the clinical and behavioral as sessment this review describes the concept of multimodal treatment of anore xia nervosa in adolescent patients, Among specific behavioral interventions both operant conditioning of weight increase and cognitive therapy are des cribed. Finally, the literature on evaluation of multimodal treatment of ju venile patients with anorexia nervosa is summarized.