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A Father’s Perspective – Supporting a Child with an Eating Disorder #EDAW23
02
Mar
A father shares his personal account of the challenges encountered by the whole family in supporting and accessing care for his daughter who has anorexia. When our teenage daughter developed anorexia and quite quickly became very unwell, one of the biggest challenges was to figure out how to access immediate and appropriate medical and psychological […]
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Eating Disorder Care – A Trainee Psychiatrist Experience #EDAW23
02
Mar
Eating Disorder care is often not built into the structure of health services, which combined with under-resourcing can lead to doctors and team members filling the gaps in wraparound support. Dr Petra McLoughlin, Basic Specialist Trainee in psychiatry shares her experience of advocating for more training and funding in the health services for integrated eating […]
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anorexia nervosa ,
bulimia nervosa ,
eating disorders awareness week ,
EDAW23 ,
Mental Health ,
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