from Section 3 - TBT-S Treatment Interventions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2022
There is a biological basis for why eating is not easy in that food is not intrinsically rewarding, contributing to why the brain may code food as harmful. Lack of motivation for treatment may reflect a deficit in biologically induced reward/motivation system rather than willfulness. Clinicians can help clients to turn to Supports and others to identify external motivators since they are unable to experience intrinsic motivation. Providing structure around meals is temperament congruent because it is unlikely that individuals with active AN can eat intuitively given altered brain reward signaling to hunger.
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