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    Spotlight on Eating Disorders

    Eating Disorders Awareness Week (26 February – 3 March 2024) is an opportunity to bring a spotlight on eating disorders and to improve awareness of the impact that eating disorder can have on children and young people.

    This Eating Disorder Awareness Week, we encourage you to explore the FREE learning opportunities available on our website, and to share with your networks.

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    Eating Disorders – Perception, Prevention, Intervention

    According to the World Health Organisation, in 2019 almost 3 million children and young people, worldwide, experienced eating disorders. This Eating Disorder Awareness Week (27 February – 5 March 2023), we encourage you to explore the FREE learning opportunities available on our website, and to share with your networks.

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    Eating Disorders and CAMHS – Real Life Insights

    Eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia, are not straight forward; to celebrate eating disorder awareness week, we spoke to Marie Young (pic), a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Eating Disorders Specialist Nurse, and Bea Fenske, an Eating Disorders Nurse, from Community Eating Disorders Service (CEDS) Bedfordshire and Luton CAMHS, to give us an overview of what it is like to work in a Community Eating Disorders Service.

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  • Dr. Nora Trompeter

    How England’s calorie labelling policy is impacting young people

    Last year the government introduced the out-of-home calorie labelling policy in England to help people make informed nutritional decisions as part of a broader strategy to reduce rates of obesity. However, little is known about how this policy impacts young people’s mental health, especially those with lived experience of eating disorders. Here we summarise the existing research and highlight areas for further investigation.

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    Developments in Eating Disorders Research

    As everyone’s thoughts are dominated by the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and wellbeing, it seems pertinent to start by thinking how people with or at risk of eating disorders may have been affected. Research suggests that the impacts differ according to the type of eating disorder concerns and behaviours.

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  • Nora Trumpeter

    Treatment-seeking for eating disorders among adolescents: Implications for mental health literacy campaigns

    Eating disorders commonly occur during adolescence, however, only a minority (10-25%) of affected adolescents receive appropriate treatment.

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  • Gillian Davies: What it’s like to be a Speech and Language Therapist

    Gillian Davies talks about what it’s like to be a speech and language therapist in the Evelina London Community Speech and Language Therapy service (Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust)

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    Raising Awareness for Body Dysmorphic Disorder

    BDD is not something that clinicians always think of, so what are the symptoms that we should be looking out for and what evidence-based treatments can help relieve the symptoms that people experience?

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  • How can we identify and treat Body Dysmorphic Disorder?

    Body Dysmorphic Disorder is a mental health condition where a person worries about perceived flaws in their appearance — flaws that are unnoticeable to others, or else appear incredibly slight. It affects people of any age but is most prevalent in teenagers and young adults, and although common, it frequently goes unrecognised or misdiagnosed.

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  • Supporting Prepubertal Children with anorexia nervosa – a clinician’s experience

    Five patients under the age of twelve have presented with Anorexia Nervosa in the last six months to our community CAMHS Eating Disorders Team, in the North of England, representing 16% of our average annual caseload.

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