scholarly journals What’s Weight Got to Do With It? Mental Health Trainees’ Perceptions of a Client With Anorexia Nervosa Symptoms

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie A. S. Veillette ◽  
Jose Martinez Serrano ◽  
Paula M. Brochu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Mental Health Trainees

Current Strains for Mental Health Trainees

1973 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. BROOKS BRENNEIS ◽  
DORI LAUB
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Trainees

Childhood phenotypic manifestations of genetic risk for anorexia nervosa in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziada Ayorech ◽  
Neil Martin Davies ◽  
Hunna Watson ◽  
Zeynep Yilmaz ◽  
Martin Tesli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Genetic Risk ◽  
Aggressive Behaviour ◽  
Eating Problems ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Study Results

Anorexia nervosa (AN) polygenic liability has been associated with mental health traits, eating problems, and body mass index (BMI) in adolescence and adulthood, but little is known about its manifestations in early childhood. We explore AN polygenic score (PGS) associations with six childhood domains: BMI, eating problems, neurodevelopment, emotional problems, disruptive/aggressive behaviour, and temperament/personality in 15,205 children from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study. Results did not support associations between AN PGS and developmental phenotypes in girls. For boys, we observed an association between AN PGS and higher temperamental fussiness at 6 months, (b= 0.036 [95% CI=0.010,0.061]). Our results suggest that genetic risk for AN as indexed by the PGS has few observable manifestations in key neurodevelopmental domains in the first 8 years of life. Future studies with more powerful PGS that track children longer may aid in understanding how and when genetic risk for AN manifest developmentally.

Compulsory Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa: Compassion or Coercion?

1993 ◽  
Vol 162 (5) ◽  
pp. 679-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Tiller ◽  
Ulrike Schmidt ◽  
Janet Treasure
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Compulsory Treatment ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
The Media ◽  
Court Of Appeal ◽  
Legal Opinion

Compulsory treatment for anorexia nervosa was recently once again a topic for discussion following the case of J, a 16-year-old girl who unsuccessfully applied to the Court of Appeal to refuse treatment for her anorexia nervosa. In this instance legal opinion was sought in order to clarify the Children Act 1989. However, much of the media coverage focused on the controversy surrounding the compulsory treatment of anorexia nervosa, under the provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983. There is a lack of research into the compulsory treatment of anorexia nervosa, so debate has to be informed by clinical experience.

scholarly journals Incidence of anorexia nervosa in young people in the UK and Ireland: a national surveillance study

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. e027339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hristina Petkova ◽  
Mima Simic ◽  
Dasha Nicholls ◽  
Tamsin Ford ◽  
A Matthew Prina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Young People ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Adolescent Mental Health ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Surveillance Study ◽  
The Uk

ObjectivesThis study aimed to estimate the incidence of DSM5 anorexia nervosa in young people in contact with child and adolescent mental health services in the UK and Ireland.DesignObservational, surveillance study, using the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Surveillance System, involving monthly reporting by child and adolescent psychiatrists between 1st February 2015 and 30th September 2015.SettingThe study was based in the UK and Ireland.ParticipantsClinician-reported data on young people aged 8–17 in contact with child and adolescent mental health services for a first episode of anorexia nervosa.Main outcome measuresAnnual incidence rates (IRs) estimated as confirmed new cases per 100 000 population at risk.Results305 incident cases of anorexia nervosa were reported over the 8-month surveillance period and assessed as eligible for inclusion. The majority were young women (91%), from England (70%) and of white ethnicity (92%). Mean age was 14.6 years (±1.66) and mean percentage of median expected body mass index for age and sex was 83.23% (±10.99%). The overall IR, adjusted for missing data, was estimated to be 13.68 per 100 000 population (95% CI 12.88 to 14.52), with rates of 25.66 (95% CI 24.09 to 27.30) for young women and 2.28 (95% CI 1.84 to 2.79) for young men. Incidence increased steadily with age, peaking at 15 (57.77, 95% CI 50.41 to 65.90) for young women and 16 (5.14, 95% CI 3.20 to 7.83) for young men. Comparison with earlier estimates suggests IRs for children aged 12 and under have increased over the last 10 years.ConclusionThese results provide new estimates of the incidence of anorexia nervosa in young people. Service providers and commissioners should consider evidence to suggest an increase in incidence in younger children.Trial registration numberISRCTN12676087.

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