Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
Back to Outpatient Eating Disorders Clinic Page
Anxiety disorders/OCD are a common set of co-occurring diagnoses in patients with eating disorders. ERP is the gold standard treatment for anxiety disorders/OCD and can help to enhance a patient’s ability to not only eat, but to do so in a way that can ultimately lead to improved tolerance of anxiety. ERP is additionally beneficial in disproving patients’ maladaptive beliefs related to the overestimated probability (how likely a negative outcome will occur) and cost (how awful it will be) of increasing food consumption and associated body changes.