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Comprehensive Eating Disorders Treatment

Eating Recovery Center provides comprehensive, integrated eating disorder treatment for female and male adults, adolescents and children. Treatment programs, developed and overseen by a compassionate team of highly experienced eating disorders experts, include the full spectrum of recovery services including Inpatient, Residential, Partial Hospitalization, Intensive Outpatient and Outpatient levels of care. Medical, psychiatric, psychological and nutritional programming elements give patients and families the necessary tools to achieve lasting behavioral change.

Eating Recovery Center Treatment Philosophy

Eating Recovery Center’s treatment philosophy emphasizes assessment, intervention and discharge planning to support sustainable eating disorders recovery.

Assessment—At Eating Recovery Center, treatment begins with the first phone call. Collecting extensive information is crucial to making an informed treatment recommendation and conceptualizing an effective discharge plan that meets each patient’s recovery needs.

A licensed therapist from the Clinical Assessment team conducts thorough interviews with patients, family members, and current treatment providers, and reviews medical records during the pre-admission assessment phase. Once the data has been collected, each case is reviewed by an admission team that includes Eating Recovery Center’s Chief Medical Officer, Chief Clinical Officer and the Clinical Directors of Adult and Child and Adolescent Services. This process ensures that each patient benefits the expertise of Eating Recovery Center’s most senior clinicians in placing them at the right level of care, identifying important treatment goals and assigning them to a treatment team that will meet their needs.

Intervention—The rigorous pre-admission assessment phase supports the development of an individualized, developmentally appropriate treatment plan, which is delivered by a team consisting of a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, family therapist, dietitian, nurse, case manager, aftercare coordinator and internist. The multidisciplinary treatment team’s first priority is to ensure that patients are medically and psychiatrically safe. Consequently, early intervention efforts generally seek to help patients find relief from these symptoms.

During this phase of treatment, the team will deliver nutritional, medical and psychiatric interventions, as well as individual and group therapy grounded in the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Family-Based Therapy grounded (FBT). The treatment team meets on a daily basis to review patient progress, and meets once a week with the patient to review their overall treatment plan. All clinical staff office on the floors where patients reside to facilitate open communication and frequent interaction.

Discharge Planning—Often times, the hardest work begins when a patient discharges from the structured support of an intensive treatment program. Recognizing aftercare planning and recovery-focused post-treatment as vital to creating sustainable recoveries, Eating Recovery Center pays meticulous attention to the discharge plan from the moment of initial contact, and throughout the course of treatment.

In the service of facilitating lasting recovery and preventing relapse among patients, Eating Recovery Center offers the following programs and services:

• Aftercare Coordinators. A team of licensed therapists work closely with patients’ treatment teams to develop an individualized aftercare plan that meets their needs and unique emotional, behavioral and situational discharge challenges. These plans identify personal and recovery-focused goals as well as a treatment action plan complete with pre-arranged appointments with an existing outpatient team. If patients do not already work with an outpatient team, Eating Recovery Center’s team of Aftercare Coordinators leverage a database of highly skilled eating disorders professionals, including outpatient therapists, dietitians and internists, to assemble a team to facilitate continuity of care and help patients sustain recovery once they return home.
• Relapse prevention training.
• Transitional Intensive Outpatient Program (TIOP). This two-week period prior to discharge from PHP is an excellent way for local patients to begin the re-entry into their home life by offering a time-limited practice stage for life after treatment. While reintegrating back to school, work or a structured home environment, they will still have the support of their current treatment team and have access to four hours of daily programming, including one meal. When patients are challenged and/or experiencing slips with their eating disorder, the treatment team is available and seeks to understand what elements needs to be in place to help for successful recovery. Because patients begin working with their outpatient team and their Eating Recovery Center team together, TIOP helps to facilitate coordination of aftercare.
• Alumni programming. Alumni of Eating Recovery Center’s intensive treatment programs have access to ongoing support and guidance through events and resources designed specifically for program graduates. Former patients have the option to attend an annual Alumni Retreat, and those residing in the Denver area can attend a weekly Aftercare Process Group. Families of alumni are also supported following their loved one’s discharge from treatment through lifelong access to Family Days programming.