Mental health articles

How to prevent eating disorders Living with someone who regularly starves, binges, or purges can be very stressful. Emotional reactions range from panic to resentment, and concrete confl icts range from hoarded food that goes rotten to messy bathrooms. Roommates may be tempted to silently accommodate the eating disordered student or to ostracize her. Some […]

Who Stays and Who Goes? Th e Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibit colleges and universities from discriminating against individuals with physical or mental disabilities. By law, students with eating disorders have the right to attend institutions of higher education. Academic institutions can, however, request and even require […]

Eating disorders carry numerous serious health risks and can be fatal. Anorexia is the most potentially fatal of all the psychiatric disorders, with a mortality rate as high as 20% among the most severely ill, most commonly resulting from cardiac arrest or suicide (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Mortality resulting from bulimia is much less common, […]

Nutritional counseling for eating disorders Nutritionists help clients stabilize eating patterns by addressing dietary defi – ciencies and excesses and correcting food- and weight-related distortions with education about the body’s functioning and nutritional requirements. Clients are helped to eat a variety of healthful foods and, when necessary, to restore their weight to a normal level. […]

eating disorder treatment facilities Since students may not identify eating problems when they initially present at the counseling service, all intake interviews should include a question or two about possible eating issues: “Our society today is so diet conscious. Do you ever go on diets, or worry about your weight?” Most women in our culture […]