Hi Carla,

I think the WC in London was 3 years ago, time flyes and life
changes. Its amazing to have a little daughter and see her starting
to walk, eventually talk and everything in between.

We will have a look at data so far in a near future to see if there´s
anything happening at all, and we´ll make a decision if we shall
proceed with the study. The trouble is a much lower rate in incoming
patients to the unit and also the motivational part for this kind of
"problem". I think we shall try to submit a paper this year on this
study and report on the data we have. Later when everyone has
attended the 2 year followup we´ll write that up as well.

20 weeks seems fine I think with those who have really started
regular eating habits and gained some weight. With those still in
starvation 20 weeks isnt enough I´d say (Fairburns transdiagnostic
treatment proposal prolongs the treatment for these patients up to 40
weeks!) but we´ll wait and see what data will tell. What we are
really interested in is to prevent relapse.

Ok, some more info there. Hope the presentation will be a success!
Dont hesitate to ask more if questions keep popping up.

best, Thomas


5 feb 2009 kl. 22.25 skrev Carla Walton:

>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Thanks for responding. Congratulations on becoming a Dad. I can't
> remembe if World Con in London was 2 years ago or 3 years ago, but
> it's amazing how much changes in a short time and your life must be
> quite different now!
>
> Glad to hear that your trial is still underway. Have you finished
> the post-treatment assessments now and just waiting for follow-up?
> If so, have you had a look at the data to see any preliminary
> results? Are you going to wait to publish til after the 24 month
> follow-up? did 20 weeks feel like it was enough for participants?
>
> Enough questions for now. I feel like I'm bombarding you! But, I
> would love you to send me any more info I hvae. Not for the
> presentation, just for my own interest. I just wanted to be able to
> say what is happening in general for the presentation. They will be
> an audience of hard nosed CBT practitioners and I really wanted to
> be able to say that we had research happening it's just not
> published yet!
>
> Lovely to hear from you.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Carla.
>
> From: Thomas Parling <thomas.parling@...>
> To: eatingconcernsandcontextualpsychology@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, 5 February, 2009 11:47:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [eatingconcernsandcontextualpsychology] Research in
> ACT and Eating Disorders
>
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
>
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> Institutionen för Psykologi
> Box 1225, 751 42 Uppsala
> Trädgårdsgatan 20
> 018-471 6221
> 070-205 8007
> thomas.parling@ psyk.uu.se
>
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