Intensive Day Treatment
Day treatment is an intensive approach for the people who struggle with a Severe and Enduring Eating Disorder (SEED), for whom regular outpatient treatment is not sufficient to make the changes they need towards recovery. We offer a comprehensive approach that seeks to promote health by intervening in all those areas of a person’s life that are affected by an eating disorder:
- Physical: Disembodiment (disrupted body connection and constant physical discomfort). Self-care is severely limited, as a result physical health is harmed and at constant risk.
- Psychological: Self perception, worth and identity are consumed by the Eating disorder. Emotional regulation is significantly impaired.
- Social: Serious interpersonal difficulties often lead to isolation and the person’s sense of belonging is diminished and their ability to build and sustain a supporting social net very limited.
- Occupational: Sense of agency and purpose in life is constricted by the ED, as a result vitality, experience and expression of desire and enjoyment in life is very limited.
Person-centered instead of a Disorder-centered
Our approach
Our approach is compassionate and evidence-based. Is person-centered instead of a disorder-centered and our main aim is quality of life.
The intensity of the treatment varies according to each person’s specific needs. The treatment of each person tailored to their needs may include a combination of:
- Group therapies and workshops
- Individual therapy
- Nutritional sessions and education
- Meals and snack support
- Occupational therapy
- Medical support
- Somatic and body-based therapies
- Family and carer support
Main objectives:
- Provide a safe space and supportive community to overcome the challenges of a severe eating disorder
- Nurture your growth
- Foster your sense of agency, autonomy and accountability for your self-care.
Aim of treatment is enhancing autonomy and self-care abilities as much as possible
Compassionate and evidence-based comprehensive treatment:
- Less cure focused-More quality of life focused
- Individualized: Problem areas determine treatment goals
- Spectrum of care ranging in intensity and focus depending on the person’s needs
- Focus on strengths: program focused on health
- Success of treatment means improved quality of life
- Aim of treatment is enhancing autonomy and self-care abilities as much as possible
- Information and support to family/ partners/ friends on accompanying someone with a long term eating disorder
- Dietetic advice to address physical health and improve nutrition
- Help with social and occupational problems to develop skills and community engagement
- Recurrent medical monitoring
For us success of treatment means improved quality of life in all domains: physical, emotional, relational and occupational.
Foster autonomy within the limits of a therapeutic setting
Our Day Treatment Program aims to cultivate engagement, empowerment, care, and accountability towards your recovery. Your autonomy is encouraged at every level of intervention.
Everyone who joins the program has a choice in both treatment direction and decision making, within the limits that the professional team sets. That requires clear communication of boundaries, expectations, and consequences of actions between the professional team and participants.
Our treatment is based on the most recent research in the field as well as real experiences: “It feels safe to know that if I’m really not doing well, they’re going to make a call and lift the level of care. But it feels safe also, that when I’m going well, they give me a bit more space to make my own choices.”
Establishing a collaborative environment towards your recovery requieres a reciprocal interplay of trust, transparency, mutual respect, safety, unconditional positive regard, and shared values between the professional team and the participants.