Motivational enhancement therapy (MET)

Motivational enhancement therapy (MET) seeks to help individuals understand the function that the eating disorder serves for them and then works toward enhancing their personal motivation to affect change, with the aim of increasing success of treatment interventions. Caution needs to be taken with this concept as eating disorders entail physical and emotional health risks and consequences that can be lethal.  Research has demonstrated that sufferers often die of complications of their disease, due to their inability to develop the requisite motivation to overcome eating disordered behaviors. See motivation.


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