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    Read more about the article The Semmelweis Reflex
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    The Semmelweis Reflex

    • Post published:May 3, 2014
    • Post category:Eating Disorder Treatment/Eating Disorders/Evidence Based Treatment

    Sometimes I get discouraged by what appears to me to be the excruciating slowness with which new ideas enter the mainstream of medical and psychological teaching and practice.  In the…

    Read more about the article But For The Grace of God
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    But For The Grace of God

    • Post published:March 13, 2014
    • Post category:Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia Nervosa/Eating Disorder Treatment/Eating Disorders/Family-based Treatment

    When I was a girl, my brothers and sister and I had the usual kid-like responses to the world around us.  One of them was innocent astonishment at those less…

    Read more about the article What We Say Matters
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    What We Say Matters

    • Post published:March 6, 2014
    • Post category:Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia Nervosa/Eating Disorder Treatment/Eating Disorders

    I just returned from Tampa, Florida and the 2014 IAEDP conference of professionals involved in the treatment of eating disorders.  I was there to talk about the very young child…

    Read more about the article FEAST 2014 and Weight Restoration 2.0
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    FEAST 2014 and Weight Restoration 2.0

    • Post published:February 6, 2014
    • Post category:Eating Disorder Treatment/Eating Disorders/Metabolic Weight Management

    Morgan and I just returned from the parent-founded and parent-lead F.E.A.S.T. conference, familiar to many of you as an online resource for parents whose children are struggling with an eating…

    Read more about the article How to diagnose the child who “won’t eat”
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    How to diagnose the child who “won’t eat”

    • Post published:January 30, 2014
    • Post category:Anorexia Nervosa/Diagnosis/Eating Disorders/Food Phobia/Selective Eating

    This blog will be short as I am preparing to attend and speak at the F.E.A.S.T. conference in Texas this week.  Very exciting! Recently I was asked to consult on…

    Read more about the article Vegetables and Kartini Meal Plan
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    Vegetables and Kartini Meal Plan

    • Post published:January 23, 2014
    • Post category:Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia Nervosa/Eating Disorder Treatment/Eating Disorders/Family-based Treatment/Selective Eating

    Despite the fact that we occasionally receive criticism of our Meal Plan for its supposed “rigidity”, what has struck me after years of reading people’s food journals is the degree…

    Read more about the article Quiet hero, mother, activist dear Charlotte
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    Quiet hero, mother, activist dear Charlotte

    • Post published:January 16, 2014
    • Post category:Eating Disorder Treatment/Eating Disorders/Family-based Treatment

    This is the second time I have blogged about a mother named Charlotte and her brave, sassy and in-your-face crusade to find great care and justice for children with eating…

    Read more about the article Appeasing The Monster
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    Appeasing The Monster

    • Post published:December 19, 2013
    • Post category:Anorexia Nervosa/Eating Disorder Treatment/Eating Disorders/Metabolic Weight Management

    Some blog topics draw in a continuous trickle of commentary long after they've been published.  One such blog is entitled “Determining Ideal Body Weight”. And little wonder.   The other…

    Read more about the article The Locked Psychiatric Unit
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    The Locked Psychiatric Unit

    • Post published:November 21, 2013
    • Post category:Anorexia Nervosa/Eating Disorder Treatment/Eating Disorders

    No doubt I will make myself unpopular (again) with some of our psychiatric colleagues by speaking out in this way about the use of locked psychiatric units in the treatment…

    Read more about the article Selective Eating revisited
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    Selective Eating revisited

    • Post published:November 7, 2013
    • Post category:Eating Disorder Treatment/Eating Disorders/Selective Eating

    I recently blogged on one of the childhood eating disorders (incidentally not yet recognized as such in the DSM system) called selective eating.  I got a deluge of parental comment…

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