Binge Eating Disorders: Executive Functioning and Treatment outcomes for Adolescents Undergoing CBT

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.33242
In this In Conversation podcast, we are joined by Dr. Andrea Goldschmidt, from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Goldschmidt is a licensed clinical psychologist whose research focuses on eating behaviors that are associated with poor weight-related outcomes.
The focus of this podcast will be on her recent JCPP paper ‘Executive functioning and treatment outcome among adolescents undergoing cognitive-behavioral therapy for binge-eating disorder’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.14031).
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include:

• An introduction to Binge Eating Disorders and why this area of eating disorders is often overlooked.
• The effects of executive functioning on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) outcomes in adolescents and the impact of executive functioning on treatment engagement.
• More impulsive decision-making being both associated with more frequent LOC eating following treatment but also with a greater number of sessions attended.
• Apps that teach self-guided CBT and insight into an upcoming trial focusing on this type of intervention.
• Advice for people who think that they, or somebody they know, may have a Binge Eating Disorder.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.
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