In 2015 at my first Graphic Medicine conference (www.graphicmedicine.org), clinicians and patients spoke about the daily hurt people experience with fat shaming, some to the point of suicidality. It’s one thing to see it but another to fight it. Our interview with Dr. Sarah Nutter helps us combat weight bias.
Once weight gain occurs with antipsychotic treatment in children and adolescents it is difficult to reverse. How should you select and prescribe SGAs to prevent it? Which additional medications are effective in preventing weight gain from SGAs? This clinical update gives you information to help prevent this common and problematic side effect.
Are you asking your patients about bulimic symptoms? How do you get this often-secretive history? And how do you decide whether to address bulimic symptoms when parents report them, or patients acknowledge them? This interview with Dr James Lock gives you practical tips for grappling with these frequently hidden symptoms.
Every patient and family you see is inescapably impacted by weight stigma or fat shaming and the damage from this bias can lethal. Our interview with Dr. Sarah Nutter unpacks this cultural conundrum and helps you counterbalance the stigma and help your patients to shield themselves from weight stigma with healthier attitudes.
Nine years after DSM-5, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is still settling into clinical practice. Dr. Jennifer Thomas helps sort out the differential diagnosis between ARFID, anorexia, and other conditions and plan treatment in the context of comorbid conditions, such as anxiety disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Dr. Joshua Feder studied mathematics and medicine at Boston University, Psychiatry at Naval Regional Medical Center San Diego, serving the first Gulf War in child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, and eventually became Chief of Child Psychiatry at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Feder now practices in Solana Beach, California, and serves as Executive Medical Director at Positive Development, providing relationship-based support for families, with research at UCSD, SDSU, Fielding Graduate University, An Najah National University, Quicksilver Software, Autism Is inclusion program, and Programmatic Lead for the International Networking Group on Peace Building with Young Children, with projects in the US, Northern Ireland, and the Middle East. Dr. Feder co-authored the first American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Practice Parameter on Autism and serves as Co-Chair of the Disaster & Trauma Committee at AACAP. Dr Feder was founding policy chair for the California Association for Infant Mental Health and advocates worldwide on access to care, climate policy, and peacebuilding. His recent books include Child Medication Fact Book for Psychiatric Practice, Second Edition (2023) and Prescribing Psychotropics (2021).
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