ing and body image. In the collateral sessions, parents were educated about normal adolescent development, given support while being asked to refrain from direct involvement in the patient's eating, and prepared to deal with a more self-assertive adolescent child. These authors admit that the validity of their study was hampered by the lack of suitable controls, and the loss of some subjects to follow-up. Their overall results are not as promising as Le Grange's either. They admit that 20 to 30 percent of their patients did not reach their target weight and 40 to 50 percent did not even reach the 50th percentile of BMI at a one-year
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