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The Link Between Trauma and Eating Disorders

Posted on November 21, 2022 by edwin

Trauma and eating disorders share an undeniable link, and new research published earlier this year in the Journal of Eating Disorders supports the connection between these complex conditions. Researchers compared survey data from 1,061 adult eating disorder patients with a nationally representative sample of more than 200,000 U.S. adults. They found that, compared with the … Read More

The Importance of Trauma-informed Care in Today’s Treatment

Posted on April 5, 2018 by edwin

Last month, Oprah Winfrey addressed the issue of trauma in our country on a 60 Minutes segment.  The report received a great deal of attention, as it should. She introduced the idea of trauma-informed care and called it “a revolutionary approach spreading across the country.” However, this approach to treatment is not necessarily new to the National … Read More