Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2025 | Viewed by 97
Special Issue Editors
2. Orygen, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
3. Department of Psychological Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
Interests: eating disorders; cognition; cognitive flexibility; anorexia nervosa; neurocognitive assessment; orthorexia nervosa
2. Orygen, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
3. Orygen Specialist Program, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Interests: eating disorders; psychosis; cognition; clinical trials; psychiatric illnesses
2. Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia
Interests: eating disorders; weight stigma; complex trauma
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Eating disorders typically develop during childhood and adolescence and have a significant impact on the young person affected, their family, and their friends. Despite decades of research in this field, we have made limited progress in our understanding of the factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of eating disorders and how treatment should best be approached. Through this Special Issue, we aim to enhance our knowledge of a) the presentation of eating disorders in young people (i.e., symptoms, comorbid diagnoses, and psychological and/or cognitive correlates); b) risk and maintenance factors; c) how eating disorders can most effectively be diagnosed in young people; and d) treatment approaches in these illnesses in young people.
We invite empirical research papers, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and opinion pieces, as well as case studies, cross-sectional research, and longitudinal studies.
Dr. Stephanie Miles
Dr. Erica Neill
Dr. Kathleen de Boer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- eating disorder
- youth
- children
- adolescence
- anorexia nervosa
- bulimia nervosa
- binge eating disorder
- ARFID
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