It is hard to evaluate Minuchin et al's study, however, it has been found that many people with AN have dysfunctional families - high levels of parental conflict.
Hsu (1990) - found AN patients do tend to deny or blame conflicts onto others.
The evidence is correlational, as attention is only drawn AFTER AN is developed, so it is hard to establish cause and effect. The parental conflicts may be due to having a AN child and therefore it cannot cause AN. Most research also only uses case studies so generalisability is questioned.
However, there are family therapy and psychotherapy used to treat AN.
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Many research is now also done on the internet. They contact those with AN and those supporting a AN patient, this is how qualitative data is gathered. Discussion boards, chat rooms and 'news groups' are increasingly used.
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