Adolescents with eating disorders: family functioning and parental psychopathological risk

This research aims to evaluate: the possible weight of adolescents’ psychological profiles and their parents’ psychopathological risk on their family functioning .We selected three groups in the adolescents population with diagnoses made considering DSM-5 criteria: Anorexia (N = 50), Bulimia (N = 50) and Binge Eating Disorder (N = 50). The results confirm adolescence as a 'joint venture' of the whole family system that involves both parents and children. These results suggest the obvious clinical implications.