National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is February 20-26, 2011. athealth.com has focused on eating disorders in their most recent newsletter. www.athealth.com/Practitioner/Newsletter/< http://www.athealth.com/Practitioner/Newsletter/ >. If you would like to subscribe to this newsletter, please go to: www.athealth.com/Practitioner/Newsletter/fpn_subscribe.html< http://www.athealth.com/Practitioner/Newsletter/fpn_subscribe.html > The following links are also helpful resources: 1. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS Identification and Management of Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/peds.2010-2821v1.pdf This clinical report includes a discussion of diagnostic criteria and outlines the initial evaluation of the patient with disordered eating. 2. VIRTUAL MENTOR An Adolescent with an Eating Disorder http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2005/03/ccas2-0503.html Confidentiality and consent issues frequently arise while providing health care to adolescents. 3. COUNSELING TODAY ONLINE A National Obsession http://www.athealth.com/apps/redirect.cfm?linkid=370 Eating disorders are not about food. 4. PRIMARY PSYCHIATRY Family Treatment of Eating Disorders http://mbldownloads.com/0603PP_Michel.pdf Family therapy is an effective modality of treatment, particularly when used in conjunction with individual psychotherapy and nutritional counseling as part of a multidisciplinary treatment. 5. MEDSCAPE Eating Disorders: An Expert Interview with Andrea D. Vazzana, PhD http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/588776 As the pressure to be thin has become more pervasive, eating disorders are occurring at earlier ages and among a more diverse ethnic population. 6. AMERICAN COUNSELING ASSOCIATION Drama Therapy as a Counseling Intervention for Individuals with Eating Disorders http://counselingoutfitters.com/vistas/vistas10/Article_08.pdf If individuals with eating disorders have difficulty admitting their condition is more than bodily, they may declare it non-verbally. 7. CURRENT PSYCHIATRY ONLINE Curbing Nocturnal Binges in Sleep-Related Eating Disorder http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/article_pages.asp?AID=5133 Sleep-related eating disorder can be associated with disrupted sleep, weight gain, and major chronic morbidity. (Complimentary registration required for access.) 8. AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN The Mirror Lies: Body Dysmorphic Disorder http://www.aafp.org/afp/2008/0715/p217.html Patients with BDD are preoccupied with a perceived physical defect, and this disrupts their lives by causing them considerable social distress and occupational dysfunction. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christine Suniti Bhat, Ph.D., P.C Assistant Professor, Counselor Education Department of Counseling and Higher Education The Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education and Human Services Ohio University , Athens , OH 45701 Office: McCracken Hall, 374 Phone: 740-593-4425 Fax: 740-593-0477 Email: bhatc at ohio.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/counselor_educ/attachments/20110218/4fe6ccad/attachment-0001.html
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