Multifamily psycho-educational group and treatment of adolescents with eating disorders

The psycho–educational multifamily group is part of a multidisciplinary treatment offered to adolescents with eating disorders and their families, in the out-patient Program for Children and Adolescents with Eating Disorders – PROTAD – of the Institute of Psychiatry, of Hospital das Clinicas, Medicine College, University of Sao Paulo, PROTAD-AMBULIM-HC-IPq-FMUSP. This article is based at the experience from the monthly meetings with the families and caregivers, from the out-patient program for adolescent patients with eating disorders, and exhibit the employed psycho-educational group model, linking it to the specific literature and the clinical practice.