Eating Disorder Screening Tool

Every day some family in our practice struggles with their insurance company over eating disorder treatment. It is not enough to provide the best, most up-to-date and effective treatment for…

What would it be like if we could add a blood test to our evaluation of a patient with anorexia nervosa? This might sound an outlandish question but recent published…

Sometimes our work brings tears to our eyes.Today I discharged four year old Gabriel after one week's intensive treatment for food phobia in Kartini Clinic's Food Phobia treatment program. Jill,…

Editors' Note: We have asked our clinical staff to respond to a recent study suggesting that certain web sites may be undermining eating disorder treatment and complicating recovery from these…

This week's blog is an excerpt from my upcoming guide to eating disorder treatment, Give Food A Chance (PSI Press, 2010).  This excerpt deals with the essential role of the…

In the next few blogs I am going to excerpt a few relevant parts from my upcoming book about eating disorder treatment called Give Food A Chance, to be published…

Previously I have discussed relapse.  Now here's a short list of concerning early signs of an eating disorder to be aware of. These symptoms, should they occur, must prompt a…

In this blog I am going to share a short poem written by a ten year old girl with anorexia nervosa who came to Kartini Clinic years ago for eating…

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book Give Food A Chance (to be published this summer by PSI Press) taken from a chapter about parents, their essential roles in…

Occasionally our team will ask our psychologist, Dr. Rebecca Seifert, to do psychological testing on a patient.  Such testing is time consuming and expensive.  Why do we do it and…