Teen Eating Disorder Treatment
If you suspect that your child is suffering from an eating disorder, it is important that you do not ignore the problem, and take steps to deal with it. The first step is to identify whether there is...
View ArticleSocial Issues of the Athletic Teen
Young teens are always experiencing pressures and stress from school, peers, parents, and many others. The urge to fit in and be accepted can be a thought in everyone’s mind, altering their choices....
View ArticleMedia Influences on Teens Raise Health Concerns
Did you know that adolescents spend an average of seven hours a day engaging in some type of media? And, the vast majority of youngsters have access to a bedroom television, computer, the Internet, a...
View ArticleTeen Eating Disorders – Let’s Take it Seriously
It’s not too hard to imagine eating disorders showing up among teenagers. Diagnoses such as Bulimia, Anorexia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder are common among adults, adolescents, and sadly, even...
View ArticleTypes of Teen Eating Disorders
You don’t hear about teen eating disorders too much in the media. It’s still not a topic that well discussed. Although the discussion has improved immensely in the last 20 years, there is a long way to...
View ArticleTypical Signs of a Teen Eating Disorder
It might be difficult to tell whether your teenager is developing an eating disorder. In fact, it might slip right by you because of the ways society itself is unaware of how it contributes disordered...
View Article#Selfies, the Next Trend in Teen Eating Disorders?
Many mothers and fathers are worried about their teenage girls, and with good reason! These days, it seems as though everyone, including celebrities, politicians, and particularly teen girls, publicly...
View Article10 in 100 U.S. Youth Suffer from Teen Anorexia or Bulimia
Did you know that 10 in 100 U.S. youth suffer from teen anorexia or bulimia? These psychiatric eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia, are characterized by a preoccupation with food and a distortion of...
View Article‘We Are All Barbie Girls’ Illustrations By Colleen Clark
Does Barbie and the media influence how today’s youth think about themselves, as well as promote teen eating disorders? When body image distortions and fears co-exist with an eating disorder, they...
View ArticleSue’s Teen Eating Disorder Story: Eating, Binging, and Vomiting
Sue is a thin 18-year-old ballet student whose parents are very concerned about her eating habits. Her experience with eating has escalated to the point that her mental health is at risk and the...
View ArticleAbby’s Story: From Teen Anorexia to Bulimia to Bipolar Disorder
When she was 14 years old, Abby began her struggle with mental illness. At that age, she was already heavily focused on the scale with a growing disturbed relationship to food. In an article published...
View ArticleTeen Eating Disorders: Disturbances in Body Image and Appetite
We all have a certain preoccupation with how we look, and that, in turn, might influence our appetite. We want to stay under 150 pounds, for instance, and so we don’t eat the chocolate cake for dessert...
View ArticleCBT: Learning the Thinking, Feeling, and Behaving Connection
Teens who experience mental illness, such as depression, anxiety, or the mood swings of Bipolar Disorder, can have symptoms of confused and dysfunctional thinking. However, this sort of thinking can...
View ArticleParent’s Role in Preventing Teen Eating Disorders
Teen eating disorders are becoming more and more common, with approximately 11 million women and girls reportedly struggling with anorexia and bulimia. Eating disorders rarely operate in isolation....
View ArticleCelebrities and their Eating Disorders
We tend to hold celebrities in our highest opinion. They live starry, glamorous, and fun lives. We assume that they don’t have any problems and that they have it all together. Perhaps that’s why we...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Group Therapy Treatment for Teen Eating Disorders
Group therapy is a unique form of treatment in which benefits for a teen are sourced from not only the relationship with the therapist, as in individual therapy, but also from the other participants in...
View ArticleThe Medical Consequences of Teen Eating Disorders
Women and specifically female teens are vulnerable to eating disorders. They are serious diseases that aren’t a fad or a trend or a thing to do in order to lose weight. These are diseases that arise...
View ArticleGlossary of Symptoms: Teen Eating Disorders – Part One
There’s so much about eating disorders that remains unknown for parents, teens, and the public in general. For the most part, teen eating disorders are kept under the radar of the mainstream public and...
View ArticleGlossary of Teen Eating Disorder Symptoms – Part Two
In the first article to this series, a list of teen eating disorders symptoms was provided. This article will continue with that list with emphasis on the many ways that this illness can consume a...
View ArticleGlossary of Teen Eating Disorder Symptoms – Part Three
This is the last of a three-part series on eating disorders. The articles presented here include a list of symptoms of eating disturbances. As pointed out in the first article it’s best for a teen not...
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