Helping Teens with Eating Disorders: Balancing Treatment and Academic Success

• By: Courtney Anderson, MA, LPC EDCare
• April 16th, 2025
• academic support, accommodations, adolescents, eating disorders, education, family therapy, mental health, recovery, resilience, Spring 2025 Issue
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For adolescents struggling with eating disorders, the pursuit of recovery often comes at a difficult cost: disruption to their education. The rigid structure of traditional schooling rarely accommodates the complex needs of students undergoing treatment, forcing many families to make an impossible...

Symptoms, Risk Factors, and Treatment Options for Eating Disorders

• By: | The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• February 28th, 2024
• anorexia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, clinical trials, eating disorders, NIMH research
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There is a commonly held misconception that eating disorders are a lifestyle choice. Eating disorders are actually serious and often fatal illnesses that are associated with severe disturbances in people’s eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions. Preoccupation with food, body weight,...