James, Paige https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2017-6751
Baudinet, Julian https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7840-4158
Eisler, Ivan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8211-7514
Konstantellou, Anna https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1354-7569
Simic, Mima https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4900-1429
Oldershaw, Anna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9473-5715
Schmidt, Ulrike https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1335-1937
Article History
Received: 16 April 2025
Accepted: 2 August 2025
First Online: 6 November 2025
Declarations
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: JB, IE and MS receive royalties from Routledge for a published treatment manual for multi-family therapy for anorexia nervosa. US receives salary support from the NIHR Mental Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London (KCL). She is also supported by the Medical Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind initiative as part of the EDIFY programme (Grant no. MR/W002418/1).
: Ethics approval was granted for this project in August 2020 by the Stanmore Research Ethics Committee London (IRAS: 234354; REC: 20/LO/0839). All participants provided written consent to participate and for the publication of results, including anonymised quotations.
: All participants provided written, informed consent/assent.
: Not applicable.