TITLE:
Preliminary Study of Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Treatment of Eating Disorders in COVID-19 Pandemic
AUTHORS:
Hanbin Wang
KEYWORDS:
COVID-19, Eating Disorders, Isolation, CBT-E, Remote Therapy
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.6,
June
28,
2022
ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a great impact on the body
and psychology of all mankind. Pneumonia caused by COVID-19 leads to death, and
the isolation policy to prevent the spread of the virus has led to people’s psychological
problems, such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders. This paper first briefly
introduces the symptoms, classification, and psychosocial causes of eating disorders. Then, the impact of the COVID-19
pandemic on the general population and patients with eating disorders is
described respectively, which is divided into
a behavioral level and psychological level. Next, this paper introduces the
most effective treatment for eating disorders, enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy,
and how psychologists invented CBT-E from the experience and theories of CBT, but
it also says that CBT-E face-to-face cannot be carried out in isolation. In the
most important part, this paper infers that remote CBT-E can also produce a good
therapeutic effect on eating disorders by generating the effectiveness of remote
therapy and remote cognitive behavior therapy for eating disorders, which is supported
by theory and limited empirical research.