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Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for ARFID

Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for ARFID

Family-Based Treatment (FBT) is a therapeutic approach that has shown promising results in treating ARFID in children and adolescents.  In some cases, FBT-ARFID is an appropriate intervention for young adults who are living at home with parental support.   FBT-ARFID...

ARFID Treatment for Children and Teens

ARFID Treatment for Children and Teens

Does your child have a strikingly small repertory of foods they’re willing to eat? Do they avoid foods due to smell, texture, color, perceived imperfections, brand or any other seemingly arbitrary feature? Learn more about ARFID treatment.

ARFID Treatment for Children: Feelings and Body Investigators (FBI)

ARFID Treatment for Children: Feelings and Body Investigators (FBI)

We hope you’ve been enjoying the Columbus Park ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) blog series! This third and final installment of the series will focus on Feelings and Body Investigators (FBI) as an innovative ARFID treatment modality for children ages...

ARFID Treatment: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for ARFID (CBT-AR)

ARFID Treatment: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for ARFID (CBT-AR)

In our previous blog, we defined Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) and detailed the impact of ARFID on both health and quality of life. In this second blog of our ARFID series, we’ll talk about treatment for ARFID; specifically, Cognitive Behavioral...

ARFID: Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

ARFID: Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

You may recall your early years as your taste palate was developing. Perhaps you subsisted on typical “kid-friendly foods” like pizza, mac and cheese, hot dogs. Or maybe you were even more selective than most – earning the description of “finicky” or “picky.”  ...

What Is ARFID?

What Is ARFID?

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is an eating disorder diagnosis that has been introduced into the DSM-5.