I so enjoyed the 2017 BEDA conference, co-sponsored by NEDA. This conference represented the joining together of many wonderful and passionate professionals, dedicated to better understanding and treating Binge Eating Disorder. It was a pleasure to facilitate a...
Caregivers, treatment providers, and survivors gathered for an informative and empowering conference hosted by The Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) in partnership with the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA). The 2017 conference was titled “Building...
Imagine this: You walk into a social gathering to find yourself among a group of people you don’t know. Immediately thoughts begin flowing into your mind: “I don’t know anyone here!” “Who should I talk to?” “If I am standing here talking to nobody, people will think I...
What is ARFID? Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder or ARFID is an eating disorder diagnosis that has been introduced into Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) fifth edition. Historically, this diagnostic category of avoidant eating...
Columbus Park Roundtable Discussion: Best Practices in the Treatment of Binge Eating Disorder Columbus Park will be hosting a roundtable at 3:15pm on Friday, November 3, 2017 at the BEDA/NEDA National Conference. The roundtable discussion will focus on best...
Eating behavior and psychological profile: associations between daughters with distinct eating disorders and their mothers Vazquez-Velazquez et al. (2017) wanted to identify the associations between psychological profile and eating behavior of mothers and daughters...
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. Severe and enduring AN, also known as Longstanding anorexia nervosa (L-AN). L-AN is often associated with poor quality of life,...
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...
Zarychta, Mullan, Kruk, and Luszcynska (2017) investigated the relationship between three variables that are associated with the transdiagnostic model of EDs in a non-clinical population: appearance orientation, appearance worries, and dieting. There was the initial...