Read more about the article Building a Web of Safety
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Building a Web of Safety

One of the challenges of swimming against the stream -- as when, for example, one insists that parents don’t cause eating disorders when many providers learn and believe otherwise --…

Read more about the article Setting Goal Weights
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Setting Goal Weights

Setting a goal weight is not simple. And it is never harder than in a growing child, where it is a moving target. I have written some rather lengthy guidelines…

Read more about the article Animal Assisted Therapy
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Animal Assisted Therapy

Kids and animals, it’s magical. Although some researchers have tried to figure out why, exactly, really - who cares? Many a little kid, or even older kid, who refuses to…

Read more about the article Why Wait For Treatment?
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Why Wait For Treatment?

It still happens all the time.  I go to see a family in the hospital (and they can be from anywhere) and as I take their history, the parents begin…

Read more about the article Our First Teaching Webinar
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Our First Teaching Webinar

Today we did our first webinar on a site called ReelDX, specifically created as a teaching tool for providers and students, offering lifelong learning for a variety of other specialists…

Read more about the article Why We Ban Cell Phones at Kartini Clinic
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Why We Ban Cell Phones at Kartini Clinic

All our kids know it: at Kartini Clinic there are no cell phones allowed on the unit. But why not? Well, treatment takes focus and it takes interaction with the…

Read more about the article Helping Parents, Together
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Helping Parents, Together

Mother nature built us to protect our offspring and, where necessary, the offspring of other members of our “tribe”.  Elephants and non-human primates have been reported to foster or adopt…