Hi all,

I posted in June asking about who's doing what in terms of research in
the area of ACT and Eating Disorders and didn't get a single response!

I'm writing to reiterate my request, since some colleagues and I are
giving a presentation in a fortnight on the use of ACT with Anorexia at
a statewide forum and I'd like to be able to talk very broadly about
what research is happening. To my knowledge, the published evidence
base for ACT with Anorexia to date is 1 case study.

I don't know what to make of the fact that nobody responded to my
email. I know that there are at least 3 folks across the US doing
research in this area (although I'm not exactly sure the nature of it).
I'm not sure if folks got too busy to respond or I offended people at
the Summer Institute or folks feel protective about what they're doing
and don't want to publicise or... (insert millions of other reasons
here).

Eating Disorders is a hard area to do research in and I'd really like
to hope that we could be collegial and support each other.

To be upfront about what I'm doing, a colleague and I have just piloted
a 20 week ACT group for Bulimia. We haven't crunched the data yet (it
just finished), but eyeballing it, it looks pretty positive,
particularly in terms of people engaging in more valued activities.
Subjectively, they all report increased QOL and decreased bingeing and
purging (in some no longer B & P). We're about to start the group again
in the next month or so.

With some other colleagues, we are planning on looking at a series of
case studies using ACT for Anorexia. Sounds like it should be simple,
but when we sat down to work out the design, measures etc, well, we're
still in discussion and not sure when we'll actually get started.

So, our research is very basic, exploratory stuff at this stage.

What are others up to?

Thanks,
Carla.