This post was originally published on December 16, 2015. Possibly nothing has changed so much over the last ten years as the acceptance of parents’ role in the treatment of…
Approximately 1.25 million American children and adults have type 1 diabetes (T1DM), according to the American Diabetes Association. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune process whereby the insulin-producing cells of…
1) Weight loss in children isn’t normal Imagine you’re a parent of a bright, active 12 year old boy. He gets good grades and has lots of friends. He excels…
This post was originally published on February 13, 2012. I (among others) have recently been challenged by Laura Collins to get the message out that weight restoration is critical to…
This post was originally published on November 13, 2013. Until I lived in the world of therapists and mental health professionals as part of the Kartini multidisciplinary team treating children…
This post was originally published on June 12, 2013. We’ve all heard from parents whose child had (or has) an eating disorder and who re-feed them at home, single-handedly and…
The canny ability of eating disorders to twist even the most kindly meant words is something that is experienced by almost all our patients. We originally published this post back…
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 --…
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…
Everyone in our field knows that the Holiday season provides special challenges to those with eating disorders, be those restricting, bingeing and purging or predominantly bingeing eating disorders. Add to…
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