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NEDA TOOLKIT for Coaches and Trainers Mealtime Support Therapy  Treatment program developed to help patients with eating disorders eat healthfully and with less emotional upset. Mental Health Parity Laws  Federal and State laws that require health insurers to provide the same level of healthcare benefits for mental disorders and conditions as they do for physical disorders and conditions. For example, the federal Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 (MHPA) may prevent a group health plan from placing annual or lifetime dollar limits on mental health benefits that are lower, or less favorable, than annual or lifetime dollar limits for medical and surgical benefits offered under the plan. Mia Slang.  For bulimia or bulimic. Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors  A class of medications used to treat depression. Movement/Dance Therapy  The psychotherapeutic use of movement as a process that furthers the emotional, cognitive, social, and physical integration of the individual, according to the American Dance Therapy Association. Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET)  A treatment based on a model of change, with focus on the stages of change. Stages of change represent constellations of intentions and behaviors through which individuals pass as they move from having a problem to doing something to resolve it. The stages of change move from “pre-contemplation,” in which individuals show no intention of changing, to the “action” stage, in which they are actively engaged in overcoming their problem. Transition from one stage to the next is sequential, but not linear. The aim of MET is to help individuals move from earlier stages into the action stage using cognitive and emotional strategies. Nonpurging  Any of a number of behaviors engaged in by a person with bulimia nervosa in order to offset potential weight gain from excessive calorie intake from binge eating. Nonpurging can take the form of excessive exercise, misuse of insulin by people with diabetes, or long periods of fasting. Nutritional Therapy  The goal of this therapy is to support the nutrition rehabilitation process that proceeds in stages. It includes CBT, behavioral therapy, transtheoretical stages of change, the Health Belief Model and Social Learning Theory. Specific recovery outcome measures are employed to assist the client with change, taking nutrition risks, exploring limits and boundaries, and challenging unsupported beliefs surrounding nutrition, weight and body image. Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD)  Mental disorder in which recurrent thoughts, impulses, or images cause inappropriate anxiety and distress followed by acts that the sufferer feels compelled to perform to alleviate this anxiety. Criteria for obsessive compulsive and related disorder diagnoses can be found in the DSM-5. Opioid Antagonists  A type of drug therapy that interferes with the brain’s opioid receptors and is sometimes used to treat eating disorders. Orthorexia Nervosa  An eating disturbancein which a person obsesses about eating only “pure” and healthy food to such an extent that it interferes with the person’s life. This eating disturbance is not a diagnosis listed in the DSM-V. Osteoporosis  A condition characterized by a decrease in bone mass with decreased density and enlargement of bone spaces, thus producing porosity and brittleness. This can sometimes be a complication of an eating disorder, including bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa. Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorder (OSFED)  Any disorder of eating that does not meet the criteria for the other feeding and eating disorders in the DSM-5. Out-of-network benefits  Healthcare obtained by a beneficiary from providers (hospitals, clinicians, etc.) that are outside the network that the insurance company has assigned to that beneficiary. Benefits obtained outside the designated network are usually reimbursed at a lower rate. In other words, beneficiaries share more of the cost of care when obtaining that care “out of network” unless the insurance company has given the beneficiary special written authorization to go out of network. Parity Equality  (see Mental Health Parity Laws). Partial Hospitalization (Intensive Outpatient)  For a patient with an eating disorder, partial hospitalization is a time-limited, structured program of psychotherapy and other therapeutic services provided through an outpatient hospital or community mental health center. The goal is to resolve or stabilize an acute episode of mental/behavioral illness. Page  | 55