It's funny what one gets criticized for. Recently a couple of young patients have let me know that some other eating disorder providers in our community have tried to steer…
Here we go into our season of Thanksgiving again. And we, at Kartini Clinic, give thanks for a lot of things: for the healing of our patients, for the continued evolution…
When you practice as long as I have in the field of childhood eating disorders, one thing becomes abundantly clear: there are cycles to the frequency with which patients…
At Kartini Clinic, we have had a parent support group from the beginning. At first my husband Steve and I led parent group. After a few years it was taken…
On Friday, Netflix released "To the Bone," a film about a young woman struggling with anorexia nervosa. The film has received a great deal of publicity, raising some questions…
8 AM: drop-off time at Kartini Clinic. It’s early, and patients and parents alike have a day of hard work ahead of them. But then... enter Ryla. Family therapist Lisa…
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…
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…
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