Discovering a Suitable Treatment for Children and Adolescents with Eating Disorders Newtown Square PA

Recovery from eating disorders is possible. If you are the parent of a child with an eating disorder you probably already monitor meals, friends and activities. Two new studies from researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital tell us there is now a need for monitoring your child’s internet use, and pre-teen weight loss in seemingly healthy children.

Mirmont Treatment Center
(610) 744-1400
100 Yearsley Mill Road
Media, PA
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Substance abuse , Detoxification
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Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Outpatient
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Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Women, Men

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Family and Community Service of
(610) 566-7540
600 North Olive Street
Media, PA
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Substance abuse
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Womanspace
(610) 649-8136
120 Ardmore Avenue
Ardmore, PA
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Substance abuse
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Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days)
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Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Women

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Lower Merion Counseling Services
(610) 520-1510
850 Lancaster Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA
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Substance abuse
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Outpatient
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Rehab After Work
(610) 889-9939x227
1440 Russell Road
Paoli, PA
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Substance abuse , Detoxification, Buprenorphine Services
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Outpatient
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Adolescents, Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Women, DUI/DWI offenders

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Center For Addictive Disease/Main Li
(610) 645-6543
401 Pilgrim Lane
Drexel Hill, PA
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Substance abuse
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Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Women, Men
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ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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Focus Psychological Associates Inc
(610) 566-4330
700 North Jackson Street
Media, PA
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Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, DUI/DWI offenders
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ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired, Spanish

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Child Guidance Resource Centers
(484) 454-8700
2000 Old West Chester Pike
Havertown, PA
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(484) 454-8700
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Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents

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Integrative Life Services
(610) 789-6005
2010 Old West Chester Pike
Havertown, PA
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Substance abuse , Detoxification
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Pregnant/postpartum women

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Malvern Institute
(610) 647-0330
940 King Road
Malvern, PA
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Substance abuse , Detoxification, Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Women, Men, DUI/DWI offenders
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Spanish

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Discovering a Suitable Treatment for Children and Adolescents with Eating Disorders

Illnesses with a biological origin inclined and altered by emotional and cultural factors are called as eating disorders. The professionals and the public do not recognize the eating disorder changes due to insufficient information about eating disorders. Eating disorders are serious. They are potentially life threatening and there is help available. Recovery from eating disorders is possible. If you are the parent of a child with an eating disorder you probably already monitor meals, friends and activities. Two new studies from researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital tell us there is now a need for monitoring your child’s internet use, and pre-teen weight loss in seemingly healthy children. Watch out for bad advice from pro-eating disorder websites. One study indicates that pro-eating disorder websites may promote dangerous behaviors in adolescents with eating disorders. The second study indicates that pre-teens with eating disorders tend to lose weight more quickly than adolescents with the condition and weigh comparatively less at diagnosis.Researchers found that about half of the patients surveyed said they had visited websites about eating disorders. A huge percentage of these teens reported they had learned new dieting and purging techniques. Researchers are also finding that pro-eating disorder site visitors tend to have a longer duration of disease, spent less time on schoolwork and spent more time online each...

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