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What Equip treatment looks like for real patients
Patient discharging from hospital
OSFED
Patient with no prior treatment
Bulimia
Meet Kenny, a 14 year-old with anorexia nervosa
restricting type (AN-R)
Ahead of hockey season, Kenny started compulsively exercising and restricting. This resulted in significant weight loss, and Kenny was ultimately hospitalized due to malnutrition, bradycardia, and electrolyte imbalances. When Kenny was discharged, his family looked for his next step.
What traditional treatment would have looked like:
After discharge from the hospital, traditional treatment models likely would recommend Kenny attend a residential program to monitor his vitals and meals, and to receive intensive therapy.
However, residential treatment has variability in effectiveness. This is because while many patients make progress in residential, they find it difficult to maintain it when they’re forced to re-acclimate back home. For Kenny, he would leave the facility and still have to adjust back to home cooking, reintegrate with his hockey team, and find (another) new set of outpatient providers.
What Kenny’s treatment looked like at Equip:Upon medical stabilization, Kenny’s family decided to begin virtual treatment with Equip so that he could stay home for the remainder of his recovery. Kenny’s providers and mentors guided him and his family through the renourishment process while he gradually returned to everyday life back at home. Ultimately Kenny reached his target weight restoration goal of nearly 30 pounds.
Consistent monitoring and tailoring of his
treatment plan
Through his time in treatment, Kenny’s parents and care team focused on establishing regular eating and decreasing disordered behaviors. Kenny’s weight and vital signs were closely monitored every week so that his team could make ongoing adjustments. Kenny’s Equip psychiatrist prescribed new medications and adjusted dosage throughout treatment.Challenges with compulsive exercise
Kenny’s greatest challenge throughout treatment was excessive exercise. His Equip team helped him to externalize his “exercise voice” and talk back to his obsessive thoughts. As Kenny returned to hockey, his care team provided him and his parents education on proper refueling for physical activity and how to tell if exercise is joyful or compulsive.Returning to total independence
With skills from his dietitian, guidance from his peer mentor who had lived experience in recovery, and other providers, Kenny was able to regain independence over his meal choices and integrate new foods into his diet. When Kenny was discharged from Equip, he was in full remission from his eating disorder. He and his family maintain a relapse prevention plan, and he continues to meet with an outpatient psychiatrist.All names and identifying information have been changed in accordance with privacy laws. Images are of models; not actual patients
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