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Reconceptualizing Recovery: Integrating Lived Experience Perspectives Into Traditional Eating Disorder Recovery Frameworks.

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Eating disorder recovery has long been conceptualized as comprising the domains of weight, behaviors, and thoughts. Criteria for these domains are generally absolute (e.g., no specified behaviors in a set time frame) and determined by researchers and/or clinicians. This Open Forum draws on the knowledge of experts with lived experience to situate their perspectives against existing models of eating disorder recovery. Definitions of eating disorder recovery could be improved by deemphasizing a single weight target in recovery and acknowledging the nonlinear nature of thoughts and behaviors. The authors provide examples of ways that clinicians and researchers can integrate these improvements into their practice.

Year of Publication
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2021
Journal
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Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
Number of Pages
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appips202000447
Date Published
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2021
ISSN Number
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1075-2730
URL
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https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.202000447?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed
DOI
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10.1176/appi.ps.202000447
Short Title
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Psychiatr Serv
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