Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CRT)
A big-picture mindset and mental flexibility are the focus of CRT. Anorexia nervosa is currently treated with it. To combat anorexia nervosa’s rigid thinking patterns, a variety of exercises and tasks are employed in CRT. The following are examples of such tasks:
Your dominant hand and your non-dominant hand can be used to draw shapes or perform actions;
- Switching your attention between two topics repeatedly
- Reading and summarizing increasingly complex passages
- Navigating a map in different ways
- Come up with alternative uses for everyday objects