Perinatal mental disorders are associated with increased risk of psychological and
developmental disturbances in children. However, these disturbances are not inevitable. In …

Up to one in five young people live in families with a parent who has a mental illness. There
are various genetic, individual, family and environmental risk factors for children living in …

Transdiagnostic models of psychopathology are increasingly prominent because they focus
on fundamental processes underlying multiple disorders, help to explain comorbidity among …

It is the position of the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) that family factors can play a role
in the genesis and maintenance of eating disorders; current knowledge refutes the idea that …

The offspring of parents with mental disorders are at increased risk for developing mental
disorders themselves. The risk to offspring may extend transdiagnostically to disorders other …

Background Anorexia nervosa (AN) is characterised by a failure to maintain a normal body
weight due to a paucity of nutrition, an intense fear of gaining weight or behaviour that …

Objective: To evaluate over time feeding behavior and emotional–behavioral functioning in
a sample of children diagnosed with Infantile Anorexia (IA) and a group of typically …

Eating Disorders presents a comprehensive and accessible investigation of eating
disorders, spanning topics such as historical and cross-cultural trends in prevalence of …

Research suggests that mothers may influence the development of body image concerns
and eating disturbances in their daughters by modeling negative body image beliefs and …

Aim: To evaluate different types and degrees of malnutrition over time in a sample of
children diagnosed with Infantile Anorexia (IA), based on the DC: 0-3R criteria, and recently …