Eating disorders

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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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    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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    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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