Learning Theory to Improve Obesity Treatment

Inclusion Criteria: * Response to an advertisement for the study, * An overweight or obese child in the family who is between the ages of 8 and 13, * The 8-13 year old child must be above the 85th BMI % for age and gender, * Parent willing to participate and attend all meetings, * Parent who can read at a minimum of a 5th grade level in English, * Parent and child willing to commit to attendance and assessments, * Child who eats in the absence of hunger. Exclusion Criteria: * Major child psychiatric disorder diagnoses, * An obese child over the 99.9th BMI % * Child or parent diagnoses of diabetes for which physician supervision of diet is needed or diagnosis of serious current physical diseases (such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, lupus) which could significantly decrease their ability to participate in the intervention (parent report), * Child taking a medication that can affect cognitive functioning, such as attention, concentration, or mental status. * Family with restrictions on types of food, such as food allergies, or religious or ethnic practices that limit the foods available in the home (these restrictions affect their ability participate in the food exposures because it would limit the variety of foods available to do exposures with), * Child with an active eating disorder (based on parent and child self-report) * Major parent psychiatric or eating disorder.