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Carney, Jennifer Maskell; Scott, Heather Lewy – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2012
School counselors play a crucial role in the prevention, assessment, treatment, and overall management of eating-related problems among children and adolescents. This article provides a framework for conceptualizing these difficulties on a continuum of severity and includes recommendations at each level for intervention and consultation.…
Descriptors: Prevention, Eating Disorders, School Counselors, Children
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Watters, Jessica E.; Malouff, John M. – Clinical Psychologist, 2012
Background: Prior research has found evidence of a general negative personality stereotype for individuals who have anorexia nervosa (AN). Methods: This study examined the expected personality characteristics of individuals with AN using the Five-Factor Model of personality to allow identification of specific personality traits that are part of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Personality Traits, Eating Disorders, Personality
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Hagopian, Louis P.; Rooker, Griffin W.; Rolider, Natalie U. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The purpose of the current study was to critically examine the existing literature on the treatment of pica displayed by individuals with intellectual disabilities. Criteria for empirically supported treatments as described by Divisions 12 and 16 of APA, and adapted for studies employing single-case designs were used to review this body of…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Mental Retardation, Therapy, Behavior Modification
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Volkert, Valerie M.; Piazza, Cathleen C.; Vaz, Petula C. M.; Frese, Jana – Behavior Modification, 2013
Children with feeding disorders often display chewing deficits. Unfortunately, there is a paucity of research examining procedures to increase or teach chewing to children with feeding disorders. The few studies on this topic have utilized multicomponent treatments typically involving a shaping procedure. In addition, to our knowledge, studies on…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Food, Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment
Congdon, Marissa – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Behavioral feeding difficulties occur at a high rate in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and can have a serious impact on their overall health and development. Although there are a number of studies demonstrating effective strategies for addressing behavioral feeding difficulties in children with ASD, the majority of them have been…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Food
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Jentoft, Nina – Improving Schools, 2017
Services provided by primary schools have a significant impact on citizens' living conditions. We need more knowledge of how innovation activities in primary schools should be organized and managed. This article addresses this gap by raising the following question: "Why do municipalities have different ways of organizing preventive work in…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Interviews
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McGowan, Susan L.; Ward, Elizabeth C.; Wall, Laurelie R.; Shellshear, Leanne R.; Spurgin, Ann-Louise – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2014
Background: Many speech and language therapists (SLTs) work with patients who have a tracheostomy. There is limited information about their working practices and the extent to which recent publications and research have influenced the speech and language therapy management of the tracheostomized patient. Aims: This study reviews the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Patients, Allied Health Personnel, Speech Language Pathology
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Najdowski, Adel C.; Tarbox, Jonathan; Wilke, Arthur E. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2012
Food selectivity by texture is relatively common in children. Treatments for food selectivity by texture have included components such as stimulus fading, reinforcement, and escape extinction. The purpose of the current study was to attempt to treat food selectivity by texture utilizing antecedent manipulations and reinforcement in the absence of…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Reinforcement, Food, Children
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Williams, Don E.; McAdam, David – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Pica is a dangerous form of self-injurious behavior that occurs in people with developmental disabilities who are institutionalized. Studies also indicate that pica has led to the death of people with developmental disabilities. While a number of published studies have demonstrated that pica behavior can be decreased substantially with behavioral…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Self Destructive Behavior, Developmental Disabilities, Institutionalized Persons
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Myers, Laura L.; Wiman, Allison M. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2014
In 1994, binge eating disorder (BED) was introduced as a disorder requiring further study in the "American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders", fourth edition ("DSM-IV"). It is now listed as a distinct eating disorder in the "DSM-5", along with bulimia nervosa and anorexia…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Comorbidity, Meta Analysis, Social Work
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Rodgers, Rachel F.; Pernal, Wendy; Matsumoto, Atsushi; Shiyko, Mariya; Intille, Stephen; Franko, Debra L. – Journal of American College Health, 2016
Objective: To evaluate the capacity of a mobile technology-based intervention to support healthy eating among ethnic minority female students. Participants: Forty-three African American and Hispanic female students participated in a 3-week intervention between January and May 2013. Methods: Participants photographed their meals using their smart…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Intervention, Technology Uses in Education
Redle, Erin E. – EBP Briefs (Evidence-based Practice Briefs), 2012
For toddlers with feeding disorders characterized by oral-motor deficits and limited texture acceptance, would an intervention that specifically included at least one sensory processing component (e.g., tactile, proprioception) and an oral-motor component be more effective than only an oral-motor intervention? A scoping literature review was used…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Speech Language Pathology, Intervention, Toddlers
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Schwitzer, Alan M. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2012
This article presents research and evidence-based practices for identifying, understanding, diagnosing, conceptualizing, and providing a continuum of treatment for the most commonly experienced types of eating-related counseling concerns--namely, eating disorders not otherwise specified--among the population most likely to present these types of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Females, Eating Disorders, Young Adults
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Aoyama, Kenjiro – Learning and Motivation, 2012
This study tested the effects of an activity-based anorexia (ABA) procedure on within-session changes in responding. In the ABA group (N = 8), rats were given a 60-min feeding session and allowed to run in a running wheel for the remainder of each day. During the daily 60-min feeding session, each nose-poke response was reinforced by a food…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Body Weight, Physical Activities, Animals
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Ramirez, Maria E.; McIntosh, David E.; Kruczek, Theresa – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2013
Eating disorders, once thought to be exclusively a disorder of the more affluent Western countries, are now spreading around the world. Despite the wealth of information on the prevalence of eating disorders in developed countries, epidemiological data for South America is scarce. The 26-item Eating Attitude Test (EAT-26) was used to explore the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Eating Disorders, Eating Habits, Epidemiology
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