"Take away tasks" for Binge Eating or Night Eating Syndrome

"How I Practice." Reprinted from Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention
My psychotherapy practice has been filled with eating disordered patients who have met with recovery failure in previous treatment attempts. Their stories all seemed disturbingly similar.... Parents and families had been denied access to the child's treatment by their child's clinicians. After months or even years of treatment, parents were at a loss to understand what eating disorders are and what they imply about their child's needs, concerns, and emotional resiliency. Read More...

What psychotherapists, medical doctors, nutritionists and other health professionals need to know…
If you are not an eating disorder “specialist,” you have probably felt unprepared to treat “hard core” eating disorder cases and in some instances, perhaps have felt compelled to refer these cases out of your own practice to other professionals who have more experience than you do. Read More...

The practitioner's role is pivotal
Whether or not you feel comfortable taking on a case that involves treating an eating disorder, your evaluation/assessment of the patient and/or early interaction with the eating disordered child and family could provide the first, and perhaps the only, opportunity for the individuals in that family to avail themselves of professional care at a point where the disease could be easily ameliorated. Your role is pivotal. Read More...

Practitioners…. avoid these 9 common pitfalls
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Seven Part Series:
Picky Eating and Early Childhood Feeding Disorders. Click Here.