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How to Choose the Right Treatment Center for Teenagers?
For adolescent girls who are struggling with an eating disorder and their families, it is important to know that there are effective and dedicated eating disorder treatment programs available. These programs can help teens learn methods for defeating their disordered...
Why Structure Is Essential to Adolescent Eating Disorder Recovery
When attending adolescent-dedicated bulimia nervosa treatment centers, a structured leveling system is crucial to long-term recovery. This type of treatment for anorexia and bulimia nervosa program helps individuals progressively set recovery goals and achieve them...
When Are Residential Programs for Teens the Right Call?
Very few things can be quite as terrifying for parents than trying to navigate eating disorder treatment and recovery for their child. Should parents start looking at residential treatment services or is an outpatient or day treatment a better option? Whether teens...
Varied Roles of Education in Adolescent Eating Disorder Treatment Centers
Eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa affect teenagers all over the United States. In fact, they are more common overall than type II diabetes, and the average age of onset is decreasing. Teenage eating disorder treatment can help prevent a...
Disordered Body Image in Adolescent Eating Disorder Treatment
In the United States alone, as many as 10 out of 100 young girls and women have been diagnosed with an eating disorder. The causes of eating disorders in adolescence are many, including biological factors, genetics, and environment; additionally, a disordered body...
What Happens When Psychiatric Care Is Needed in Adolescent Eating Disorder Treatment?
Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa do not exist in a vacuum; cases where they exist almost always co-occur with a psychological disorder or one which requires psychiatric treatment. These can range from the relatively mild to severe...
Crucial Steps to Take If Your Daughter Is Showing Symptoms of Bulimia Nervosa
Crucial Steps to Take If Your Daughter Is Showing Symptoms of Bulimia Nervosa Bulimia nervosa is one of the most common eating disorders in the United States, affecting 1.5 percent of women and 0.5 percent of men. This translates to over 4 million people in the US,...
Making the Most of the Moment: Mindfulness Matters in Eating Disorder Recovery
For years and years, eating disorder treatment centers used only medical and psychiatric methods to provide eating disorder treatment for sufferers of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other common disorders. While in keeping with the scientific and medical...
Four Ways Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescence Is Affected by Body Image
Anorexia nervosa disorder is one of the most well-known and, contradictorily, maybe one of the least understood mental health disorders in the United States. Most people have known someone with anorexia nervosa disorder personally, and may even have known someone who...
8 Benefits of Inpatient Psychiatric Care
For people diagnosed with eating disorders, psychiatric care is often the primary treatment offered by treatment centers. Whether conducted by a certified psychiatrist, or in the form of various therapies offered by certified therapists, mental health treatments are a...
Summer at Clementine
With the summer in full swing, parents and families may find themselves looking for programs that will help treat and prepare their children before they had back to school in the fall. At Clementine, we offer programs that incorporate highly personalized medical,...
Eating Disorder Counseling: The Whats, Whys, and Hows
Eating disorders like anorexia nervosa are more complex than they might seem on the surface. Indeed, even though the sentiment concerning the best treatment options is changing to a more inclusive attitude, there are still many families and loved ones of individuals...
Psychiatric Disorders Diagnosed in Teens and Women with Eating Disorders
The clinical term for a mental illness is a psychiatric disorder. Depression, generalized anxiety, schizophrenia, personality disorders and eating disorders are all considered psychiatric disorders by the healthcare community. Clementine's day treatment programs for...
Adolescent Treatment Centers for Eating Disorders: Why They Work
Residential treatment centers for eating disorders can be found that cater to a wide variety of groups in need, including adolescents. Each type of treatment center is designed to provide a safe, welcoming environment for the group it serves. Centers for women offer a...
Understanding the Prevalence of Bulimia Nervosa in Adolescent Girls
Bulimia nervosa is one of the most common eating disorders today. Characterized by uncontrollable episodes of overeating, binge eating episodes related to this type of eating disorder are often followed by feelings of shame and guilt. With both bulimia nervosa and...
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...
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...
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