I am often surprised and pleased at the way we—pediatric providers who believe in the biological basis for eating disorders and parents who are caring for their children-- stumble our…
If your child or adolescent is admitted to a hospital for the medical complications of an eating disorder, you need to carefully assess adequacy of care at that hospital. Common…
I made this dialogue up, pieced it together from things that have been said to mothers and fathers seeking our care for their eating disordered children many times over the…
Life for most pediatricians used to be pretty well defined: you got up early and made hospital rounds on all your patients—mostly newborn babies and an occasional hospitalized child—before you…
Readers of this blog know that Kartini Clinic offers inpatient medical stabilization, partial hospitalization and outpatient care, all entirely family based. We do not offer residential care. However, we find…
We get a lot of questions about how to handle college for an eating disordered young adult. There is no one right way to handle all situations, but I will…
Family-based treatment for the young adult patientFor most of us when we are 17, 18, 19 or slightly older, independence from our family of origin can’t come a moment too…
I am often asked: “do we really need to have all this treatment for our child’s eating disorder? Can’t she/he just talk to someone once a week and not have…
Occasionally we invite guest bloggers to write about their experiences in the field. Steve Nemirow has been, among many things, a intake co-ordinator at Kartini Clinic for many years, and…
Several people whom I respect have asked me to do something I find hard: stop calling what we do at Kartini Clinic "Family based Treatment". That term, they aver, should…
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