When to Seek Eating Disorder Support During the School Year For many families, the back-to-school season feels like a reset. New schedules, earlier bedtimes, homework, sports practices, and busy calendars quickly replace the slower pace of summer. Although these changes are a normal part of the school year, they're also part [...]
Patient-Centered Care: The Anchor in a Changing Industry Just like the broader healthcare industry, the landscape of eating disorder treatment is undergoing a transformative shift. As private equity firms take control of more treatment centers, consolidations and closures are leaving patients and their families grappling with uncertainty. We have also seen increasing [...]
Budding New Considerations about the Use of Cannabis in Eating Disorder Treatment Eating Disorders and Co-Occurring Substance Dependency Eating disorders are complex psychopathologies, which present clinical challenges for many reasons. A major one is that eating disorders often co-occur with a Substance Use Disorder (SUD). This includes cannabis abuse, which can begin [...]
Countertransference and the Eating Disorder Therapist: How’s the Therapist Doing? Whether you are a therapist for an eating disorder program or a therapist who sees a single patient with anorexia nervosa, it is important to recognize and be knowledgeable about the complexities and power of countertransference in the treatment of eating disorders. Treatment often [...]
