Foster Care Training

This presentation will outline our current understanding of the development of eating disorders and discuss ways that clinicians can incorporate a developmental understanding of eating disorders to design more effective interventions for working with youth in care. We will present the evidence and rationale for an anxiety based, transdiagnostic approach in conceptualizing and treating eating disorders as it relates to youth in care, and further discuss the impact of systemic stressors such as racism and poverty on eating pathology.