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    Patterns of attachment and reflective functioning in families of adolescents with eating disorders

    234002_Seah 2015.pdf (3.359Mb)
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    Open access
    Authors
    Seah, Elizabeth Jane Izett
    Date
    2015
    Supervisor
    Prof. Jan Piek
    Dr Lynn Priddis
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    School
    School of Psychology & Speech Pathology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/629
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    Abstract

    This study investigated attachment patterns and mentalising capacity of adolescent girls with eating disorders, their mother’s reflective capacity, and family functioning. Girls with eating disorders scored higher rates of insecure attachment, lower attachment coherence and higher hypermentalising than non-clinical girls. Although mothers’ reflective functioning did not differ between groups, a proportion of clinical mothers scored very low reflective functioning compared to controls. Clinical families presented with higher depression, anxiety, communication difficulties and conflict.

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