Parenting skills after participation in skills-based training inspired by the New Maudsley Method: a qualitative study in an outpatient eating disorder setting.

Skills-based training serves as an important intervention and it may improve parental skills, reduce high expressed emotions and reduce anxiety, guilt and stress. Skills-based training may contribute to reinforcing parents to regain parenting authority and enable parents and adolescents to 'be on the same side' in the beating the eating disorder.