2020
Overview
An eating disorder clinic is a specialised healthcare setting that provides assessment, treatment, and ongoing support for people affected by eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. These clinics bring together a multidisciplinary team that may include physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, dietitians, nurses, and other specialists who work together to address the medical, nutritional, and psychological dimensions of disordered eating. Because eating disorders affect both physical and mental health, care in these settings is comprehensive, typically combining medical monitoring and stabilisation, nutritional counselling and meal support, and psychological therapies aimed at the thoughts, emotions, and behaviours that underlie the disorder. Treatment is usually tailored to each individual and may be delivered across different levels of care, from outpatient appointments to more intensive day programmes or inpatient treatment for those who are seriously unwell. The goals of an eating disorder clinic are to restore physical health, establish balanced and sustainable eating patterns, address co-existing conditions such as anxiety and depression, and support long-term recovery and relapse prevention. By coordinating these elements of care, eating disorder clinics provide structured, evidence-based help for a group of conditions that can have serious consequences if left untreated. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research in the International Journal of Eating and Weight Disorders relevant to the assessment and treatment of eating disorders.
Research published in this journal
1 peer-reviewed article, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.