Scientific Network: Body Exposure – Attention Modification (BEAM)

这项建议中申请的“身体暴露-注意调整”网络(BEAM)的目标是聚集工作组，这些工作组的研究重点是身体暴露和其他干预措施的基础、作用机制和影响，以修改饮食失调中与身体相关的注意过程。BEAM-Network所关注的领域具有重要的科学和临床意义。虽然身体形象障碍是各种饮食失调的发展和维持的中心因素，但改善身体形象的直接干预在研究和常规护理中都很少受到关注。BEAM网络将由在临床心理学和心理治疗领域工作的五名研究人员组成。该网络的一个主要目的是开发联合新的创新研究思路。为了实现这一发展，一方面将促进网络成员之间的合作以及他们的研究努力的协调和系统化。另一方面，被邀请参加网络会议的国际研究人员将在临床心理学和心理治疗领域以及其他领域，包括邻近的心理学学科，进行跨诊断交流，从而激发研究想法，例如通过提供方法投入，并实现更广泛的国际合作。除了审查基本情况、作用机制、不同的有效性、制定指示标准和确定有效性的预测因素外，BEAM网络的第二个主要目标是支持该方法的传播。因此，建立了一个平台，在这个平台上，将向从业者提供关于身体暴露和修改与身体相关的注意过程及其影响的研究结果。因此，将实现从研究到常规护理的更好转移，最终患者将从中受益。

The goal of the Network "Body Exposure – Attention Modification" (BEAM) applied for in this proposal is to bring together work groups that hold a research focus in the area of basics, mechanisms of action, and effects of body exposure and other interventions to modify body-related attention processes in eating disorders. The area focused upon by the BEAM-Network is of great scientific and clinical relevance. While a body image disturbance is a central factor for the development and maintenance of diverse eating disorders, direct interventions to improve body image have received little attention both in research and routine care. The BEAM-Network will consist of five researchers working in the area of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. One main aim of the network is to develop joint new innovative research ideas. To enable such development, on the one hand, cooperation among network members as well as the coordination and systematization of their research endeavors will be fostered. On the other hand, international researchers invited to the network meetings will engage in transdiagnostic exchange across the field of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and beyond, including neighboring psychological disciplines, therewith stimulating research ideas, e.g. by providing methodological input, and achieving even wider international collaborations. Besides the examination of basics, mechanisms of action, differential effectiveness, the development of indication criteria, and the identification of predictors of effectiveness, the second main aim of the BEAM-Network is to support the dissemination of the method. Therefore, a platform is established on which research findings regarding body exposure and modification of body-related attention processes and their implications will be made available to practitioners. In consequence, a better transfer from research to routine care will be achieved that, eventually, patients will benefit from.