Hi Carla,

guess I am one of those who did not reply to your mail. My reason
that you can add tp the list :-) Been on paternity leave! And now I´m
back, so:

1. Were conducting an RCT for Anorexia and EDNOS AN type. First 9 -
12 weeks of daycare (collaboration w hospital) aiming to restore
regular eating and resting behaviors. After that they are approached
wether to join the study: ACT individual therapy for 20 weeks
(elaboration of a substance abuse protocol) or Treatment as Ususal
for 20 weeks. We are doing followups every 6,12,18 and 24 months. for
each patient. Still in process.

2. Self help for anorexia and EDNOS AN type. RCT with a swedish ACT
self-help book for anorexia (Ghaderi & Parling) and a waiting list
that eventually get the self-help. (and sad to say right now I cant
remeber how many weeks exactly the self help constitute.... have some
major catching up to do)

These are parts of my PhD-student research at Uppsala university,
Sweden.


Hope that helps a bit and I can give you more info if you are
interested.


Would be glad to see the results from your Bulimia research when its
available.


best,

Thomas



5 feb 2009 kl. 13.18 skrev carlajoywalton:

> 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.
>
>
>

Thomas Parling, leg.Psykolog, doktorand
Institutionen för Psykologi
Box 1225, 751 42 Uppsala
Trädgårdsgatan 20
018-471 6221
070-205 8007
thomas.parling@...