Eating disorders commonly start at a time when you are becoming more independent, changing the way you eat and possibly feeling different about your body. 

Eating disorders commonly develop from the age of 14. This is a time when young people are becoming more independent and parents often have less control over the food they eat.

You may have a friend who is becoming obsessed with food and dieting and you're concerned but aren't sure what to do.

In order to properly diagnose an eating disorder, a full assessment needs to be made by your GP, a specialist nurse, psychiatrist or psychologist.

Recent figures from the NHS Information Centre suggested 700,000 men are registered as having an eating disorder, a quarter of the total number of people affected.

Support and advice for parents of a child with an eating disorder. The first step is to discuss your concerns with your daughter or son. Each time, emphasise that you want to offer help and support.

Specialists working in eating disorders facilities are receiving increasing numbers of requests to follow a vegetarian or vegan diet. This article explores how to safely maintain eating disorder recovery.

From a patient and parent's point of view, it's difficult to know what the standards for eating disorders treatment might be and therefore to know what to expect and what a good service looks like.

Body dysmorphia is the term for a condition that causes an individual to be overwhelmingly focused on perceived flaws in their appearance. This is a distorted perception – evident to the affected individual in a very different way than everyone else.

Compulsive eating is a type of behaviour with food: when a person eats in a way that feels out of control, has an emotional component and involves eating an uncomfortably large amount.

Diabulimia is a term which has come into recent usage to describe people who are suffering from Type 1 diabetes and a related eating disorder. Specifically, it means people with Type 1 diabetes who omit or reduce their intake of insulin in order to lose weight.

Mirror exposure therapy is an approach recognised as being effective in reducing body image distress. It can be used as part of a treatment programme for people with eating disorders who experience high levels of body dissatisfaction.

There is an emerging understanding of a developmental disorder called Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) which can lead to serious eating difficulties, together with many other social, educational and relational problems.

Schoen Clinic provides an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to eating disorder treatment and occupational therapy is a key part of this approach. In this way, we are able to respond to and meet the physical, psychological and social needs of each individual patient.

The film has been developed with the ideal audience range of 10 to 16 in mind. This is a very wide age range; we believe the film is suitable for this age range, but follow-up discussions and work would need to be age-adjusted.

LEAP (Loughborough Eating disorders Activity therapy) is a well-regarded adult treatment to address excessive activity and over-exercise as components of anorexia.

In this article, Dr James Woolley from Schoen Clinic Chelsea helps to address problems any people are facing post-pandemic.

In this article, we’ll look at some of the causes and cures for modern-day stress in relation to both mental health problems and eating disorders.