Eating disorders

  • PAPYRUS – working for prevention of suicide in young people

    Every year many thousands more attempt or contemplate suicide, harm themselves or suffer alone, afraid to speak openly about how they are feeling. PAPYRUS strongly believes that many young suicides are preventable.

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  • Clinical characteristics of adolescents referred for treatment of depressive disorders

    Low mood and depression often emerge during adolescence and are associated with long-term difficulties including increased risk of developing other mental health disorders, educational underachievement, low income/unemployment, and risk of suicidal behaviour.

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  • Guest blog on sleep and mental health

    The origins of fussy eating in young children

    As young children make the transition from a solely milk-based diet to a ‘family diet’, they are gradually introduced to increasing numbers of foods. While some children happily accept novel flavours and textures and enjoy widening their dietary repertoire, many are hesitant or even suspicious about trying new foods.

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    Eating Disorders

    Eating disorders: an introduction to anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders. From this topic guide, you can find the latest blogs, events, publications, videos and podcasts.

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  • Self image estimations impact on mental health

    Our overall estimation of “self image” is thought to be based on various parameters, such as perceptions of body image, mental function and social attitude. Now, a study by Maria Di Blasi and colleagues has investigated the extent by which these different parameters can influence psychological well-being.

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  • Prabha Chouina

    Looking back on 2017 to go forward in 2018

    At the journals’ editorial office, we have been reflecting on 2017. Have we continued to improve our service offering to our authors and reviewers? Have we improved our systems and workflows to make the editors’ work at least a tiny bit easier? Have we engaged actively with the editorial and advisory board members and the wider research community?

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  • A boy with food representing ARFID

    Defining the familiar: the birth of Avoidant or Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

    Dr Rachel Bryant-Waugh has seen many changes in the 30 years she has spent helping children and adolescents overcome their eating disorders. Among these changes was the 2013 inclusion of a new disorder in the psychiatrists’ bible – the DSM.

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    JCPP Editorial: Volume 56, Issue 11, November 2015

    “Unravelling risks for child psychopathologies – general lessons from eating disorder research” by Barbara Maughan

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    JCPP Editorial: Volume 56, Issue 05, May 2015

    “Diet and children’s behaviour problems – disentangling urban myth from clinical reality” by Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke

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