With the DSM-5 came the first formal diagnostic criteria for night eating syndrome (NES) in a manual, despite its first documented description nearly 60 years ago (Stunkard, Grace & Wolff, 1955). Slow advances in the understanding of NES and few cross-study...
Occasionally at Columbus Park, we treat adult clients who have been in multiple treatments over the span of years and continue to struggle with enduring AN. Severe and enduring AN s also known as longstanding anorexia nervosa (L-AN). L-AN is often associated with poor...
A growing phenomenon termed therapist drift references a clinician’s tendency to deviate from evidence-based treatment approaches as protocols are often viewed negatively. Some clinician’s regard them as constraining to their practice and artistry by limiting the...
Research findings suggest that the relationship between appearance orientation, appearance worries, and dieting create a vicious cycle of enhancing risk for eating disorders. Zarychta, Mullan, Kruk, and Luszcynska (2017) investigated the relationship between three...
Executive functions in adolescents with binge-eating disorder and obesity In this study, Kittel, Schmidt, and Hilbert (2017) sought to examine executive functions (EF) in response to neutral stimuli in youth with BED and obesity (referred to as “BED”), obesity only...