Assessment and treatment of eating disorders in children and adolescents

摘要: Feeding and eating disorders (FEDs) are serious mental health that cause impairments in physical health, development, cognition psychosocial function can go undetected for months or years. They characterised by disturbed behaviour associated with concerns about weight shape disinterest food, phobic avoidance due to sensory aspects of food. Restrictive forms FEDs lead significant loss requiring intervention. Without specific knowledge these conditions, they evade detection, delaying time diagnosis treatment potentially influencing outcome. This review article focuses on the key factors involved psychiatric assessment four feeding (EDs): anorexia nervosa, avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder, bulimia nervosa binge disorder. have been chosen discussion as most likely be encountered both a paediatric setting. It emphasises importance family-focused, developmentally appropriate multidisciplinary approach care. does not address medical treatment. Other EDs included this pica, rumination other specified disorder unspecified