Rapid improvements in emotion regulation predict eating disorder psychopathology and functional impairment at 6-month follow-up in individuals with bulimia nervosa and purging disorder.

We previously demonstrated that early improvements in access to emotion regulation strategies during the first 4 weeks of intensive cognitive behavior therapy (CBT)-based eating disorder (ED) treatment predicted a range of post-treatment outcomes. This follow-up article examines whether early improvements in access to emotion regulation strategies continue to predict good treatment outcomes at 6 months post-treatment.