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Trait Management: Tailoring Treatment to Patient Characteristics

Thursday, March 22, 2012: 2:00 PM-3:30 PM
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Yellow Topaz (The Charleston Marriott)
In this patient population, treatments are often inappropriate for a patient’s characteristics, resulting in widely accepted treatment approaches falling short of sustaining recovery, contributing to high relapse rates among patients. In this presentation, Dr. Bishop will discuss data supporting the need and techniques effective in tailoring treatment to patient characteristics.
Trait Management: Tailoring Treatment to Patient Characteristics
  1. Issues in Treating Eating Disorders
  2. Summary of Major Treatment Goals
    1. Research Supporting Treatment Goal
      1. How do Patient Characteristics Inform Treatment?
        1. Temperament and Character Inventory Data
        2. TCI vs. EDI Data
        3. AAQ vs. Self Directedness Data
        4. AAQ vs. EDI Data
        5. Negative Affect as Function of Character Profile Data
        6. Life Satisfaction, Subjective Health and Social Support as Function of Character Profile Data
        7. Character Profile Comparison with “Best Health” or “Worst Ill-Health” Data
        8. Frontal System Behavior Scale Data
        9. Attachment Data
  3. Techniques to Accomplish Treatment Goals
    1. Address Psychobiology
    2. Train Flexibility 
    3. Establish Context of Personal Values
    4. Develop Reflective Function
    5. Foster Experiential Acceptance
    6. Teach Connections
    7. Optimize Traits
  4. Conclusion
Through examining research regarding characteristics of the eating disorder patient population, specifically, focusing on neurocognitive processing and outlying temperaments, this presentation identifies the need to tailor treatment to patient characteristics in order to optimize outcomes.  Many widely accepted treatment approaches fall short in sustaining reduction of eating disorder symptoms within this patient population, so techniques should be used to tailor treatment to the needs of the patient. This presentation presents clinical data supporting these observations and elaborates tangible techniques the participants can incorporate into daily work with the eating disorder patient population.
Primary Presenter:
Emmett R. Bishop Jr., MD, FAED, CEDS

Emmett Bishop, Jr., MD, FAED, CEDS is the Medical Director of Adult Services at Eating Recovery Center in Denver, Colorado. He has more than 30 years experience in the treatment of eating disorders. He has served on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals since 1993 and was President of the Board for 2005 and 2006. He is a fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders and has been a member since its inception in 1993. Author and co-author of numerous articles in his field, he has lectured widely on eating disorders and psychotropic medications.



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