Author(s)

Hanbin Wang

Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a great impact on the body and psychology of all mankind. Pneumonia caused by COVID-19 leads to death, and the isolation policy to prevent the spread of the virus has led to people’s psychological problems, such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders. This paper first briefly introduces the symptoms, classification, and psychosocial causes of eating disorders. Then, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the general population and patients with eating disorders is described respectively, which is divided into a behavioral level and psychological level. Next, this paper introduces the most effective treatment for eating disorders, enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy, and how psychologists invented CBT-E from the experience and theories of CBT, but it also says that CBT-E face-to-face cannot be carried out in isolation. In the most important part, this paper infers that remote CBT-E can also produce a good therapeutic effect on eating disorders by generating the effectiveness of remote therapy and remote cognitive behavior therapy for eating disorders, which is supported by theory and limited empirical research.

COVID-19, Eating Disorders, Isolation, CBT-E, Remote Therapy

Wang, H. (2022) Preliminary Study of Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Treatment of Eating Disorders in COVID-19 Pandemic. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 10, 319-334. doi: 10.4236/jss.2022.106024.