Contributor: Staff at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center In an era where teens are constantly bombarded with images of what they should look like and how they should portray themselves [...]
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The adolescent years are a highly formative time. Young people experience rapid emotional, mental, and physical development during their teen years, and their habits and thoughts are impressionable, making them [...]
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Family-based eating disorder treatment is proven to be beneficial and research continues to explore how it can be used to support anorexia nervosa treatment and recovery. For teens struggling with [...]
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We have all experienced the turbulence of adolescence. In fact, when you read that, I am sure many flashbulbs memories came to mind. Some were likely positive, but other teen [...]
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Contributor: Staff at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center Given the physical, psychological, and social transformations that are characteristic of adolescence, it is not uncommon for a teen to experience temporary [...]
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High school-age students are especially vulnerable to body dissatisfaction and disordered eating, but what high school resources are available to help keep them from developing an eating disorder? One survey [...]
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Contributed by Canopy Cove Bulimia Nervosa (BN) is an eating disorder diagnosis whose behaviors are characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors [1]. For both [...]
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Eating disorders are all too common among adolescents. Often we think of anorexia or bulimia as the most common types of EDs and do not frequently think of obesity as [...]
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Determining who to tell about your eating disorder is an important and challenging decision. To share your struggles is to be incredibly vulnerable. You need to surround yourself with people [...]
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Eating disorders and addictions tend to be commonly associated. In addition to addictive behaviors, compulsive eating patterns have been associated with high-risk substance abuse [1]. Some sufferers turn to alcohol [...]
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