eating disorders
Permission to Be Parents: Support Groups for Families Dealing with an Eating Disorder
Parents of a child with anorexia nervosa often feel embarrassed or isolated, like they’re on their own dealing with this difficult illness. For decades, the first line of treatment for an adolescent with anorexia was inpatient care to restore their weight, with little parental involvement. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, clinicians started […]
Testing Treatments in the Anorexic Mouse
Anorexia nervosa is one of the most common psychiatric disorders, and also the deadliest. But unlike depression, anxiety, or schizophrenia, no drugs are approved for the treatment of patients with this eating disorder. Non-pharmacological interventions, such as family-based treatment or cognitive-behavioral therapy, remain the gold standard for helping patients get back to healthy eating habits […]
Finding Common Ground on Eating Disorders
By Matt Wood In the field of pediatric eating disorder studies, you might think that the one thing on which researchers could agree would be how to determine the appropriate body weight for a child. An exact determination of expected body weight for adolescents based on age, height and gender is critical for diagnosis and […]
