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Adolescent Athletes and Anorexia Nervosa: Important Warning Signs Every Parent Should Know
Participating in competitive sports can be an excellent way for young people to learn about teamwork, sportsmanship, gain self-confidence and develop important motor skills. In fact, participating in athletics can even push adolescents to perform better in their...
The Recovery ABC’s
Clementine South Miami Clinical Director Bertha Tavarez, PsyD discusses the "Recovery ABC's in this week's blog post. Dr. Tavarez explains how she and her team use the framework to help guide adolescents on their recovery journey. As a clinical director of Clementine,...
How Mindful Eating Improves a Teen’s Lifetime Relationship With Food
The National Institute of Health estimates that of the thousands of teens that develop eating disorders, 2.7 percent of them will have a lifetime prevalence of the illness without eating disorder recovery. On average, in teens ages 13 to 14, 2.4 percent will deal with...
Adolescents and Anorexia Nervosa: Young Girls Start Eating Disorders Early
Realizing a child has an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder can be a confusing and difficult time for any family. These are concerns that every parent hopes to avoid as their children grow from little kids on the...
How Healthy Coping Skills Help Teens Become Recovered from Anorexia Nervosa Disorder
Teens with anorexia nervosa face many stressors that can wreak havoc on their health and happiness. Without the right tools at their disposal, teens may start to rely on increasingly disordered coping mechanisms to handle the stress. These coping mechanisms can make...
An Open and Informed Medical Approach
Clementine Psychiatrist Lauren Ozbolt, MD, CEDS, FAPA is board certified in adolescent, adult and child psychiatry and oversees the psychiatric care and attending psychiatrists at Clementine. Dr. Ozbolt explains how she establishes a strong rapport with the adolescent...
Team Spotlight: Danielle Airaghi
Clementine Twin Lakes Registered Nurse Danielle Airaghi, RN, BSN, CARN shares her personal experience working at Clementine Twin Lakes. Read on to learn more about Danielle... Share about your background and what led you to Clementine. I have worked in psychiatric...
Common Stressors in the Teenage Years – and Their Impact on Eating Disorder Recovery
Without a way to mitigate its impacts, stress can have a profoundly negative impact on teens as they work on becoming and remaining recovered at residential treatment programs. Unfortunately, as they navigate the demands of daily life, teens face a wide range of...
Addressing Disordered Eating Attitudes and Behaviors During Teenage Eating Disorder Treatment
With disordered eating attitudes clouding their vision, teenagers can have a truly difficult time even seeing a clear path toward eating disorder recovery - or realizing they need one. Disordered behaviors often result from these thoughts and put teens at serious risk...
Eight Benefits That Choosing Eating Disorder Residential Treatment Programs for Teens Provides
Like most other behavioral conditions, choosing residential programs for teens who have an eating disorder provides them with several significant benefits. Understanding these advantages and the role they have in the recovery of teens with eating disorders makes it...
Is Bulimia Nervosa Residential Treatment Necessary? Here’s How to Tell
Bulimia nervosa, like all eating disorders, is a complex combination of physical, emotional and mental factors that do not look the same in every person. That being said, there are some general guidelines displayed in order to be formally diagnosed with bulimia...
Inpatient or Outpatient: How to Choose a Center for Eating Disorders
Realizing a loved one has an eating disorder typically brings up a range of emotions in her family members, friends, coworkers and the other people who are close to her. While many of the people in her life will be filled with blame for themselves and wonder if things...
Is Treatment for Teens with Eating Disorders and Type 1 Diabetes Different from Other Eating Disorder Treatments?
Eating disorders (ED) such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa,and binge eating disorder are characterized by persistent and abnormal eating patterns that pose a serious threat to an individual's physical and mental health. In addition, eating disorders are directly...
Binge Eating Disorder: What is it?
Executive Director of Oliver-Pyatt Centers and Clementine Miami Melissa Spann, PhD, CEDS-S shares an informative piece on Binge Eating Disorder. Dr. Spann discusses the potential causes and symptoms in part one of her two part series… Society unfortunately has a...
Am I Enabling My Child’s Eating Disorder
Becky Henry is trained as a Certified, Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), ACC and provides radical support for caregivers to become effective guides for their loved one in eating disorder recovery. In this post, Becky discusses Enabling and Support. Full...
What to Do When Your Child Needs Care for Both an Eating Disorder and a Psychiatric Disorder
In the treatment of children and teens with eating disorders, it is very common for co-occurring psychiatric disorders to require treatment as well. In fact, up to 98 percent of people with anorexia nervosa and 97 percent of people with bulimia nervosa show signs of...
Reading List to Promote Body Acceptance and More Inspiration Articles
Join us in reading inspirational and informative articles we have cultivated from across the web. If you have found an article you feel is inspirational, explores current research, or is a knowledgeable piece of literature and would like to share with us please send...
Four Problematic Ways the Media Depicts Bulimia Nervosa
The influence of the media has the potential to impact how teens and adolescents perceive themselves and the world around them. When the media shares misinformation about bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders, or fails to provide follow-up resources for bulimia...
Why Anger is Different from Other Emotions
Karin Lawson, PsyD, CEDS-S, is a licensed Florida psychologist. She holds a certification as an eating disorder specialist and approved eating disorder supervisor as designed by IAEDP. Karin currently works with adult clients in her private practice locations, Miami...
Recovering or Recovered? How Effective Eating Disorder Treatment Differentiates Between the Two
Effective eating disorder treatment programs center their care process around helping patients replace disordered thoughts and behaviors with healthier alternatives. As a part of this process, it is important to replace negative thought patterns with positive ones as...
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