The Donald Delaney Eating Disorders Clinic at Children’s National Hospital includes both outpatient and inpatient services for children with eating disorder diagnoses. Physicians, psychologists, physician’s assistants, dieticians, nurses and social workers work collaboratively to address the complex problems faced by these patients and their families. Presenting issues include malnutrition due to caloric restriction; compensatory behaviors; medical complications due to malnutrition and compensatory behaviors; body image disturbances; comorbid mood, anxiety, and/or trauma-related symptoms; family adjustment to treatment and diagnosis; nonadherence to treatment; and behavioral problems.
The externship consists of:
- Clinical training in eating disorder treatment (up to 4 patients)
- Clinical assessment in eating disorder treatment (2 per month, opportunity for full assessment and developing integrated reports)
- Groups
- Consultation team meetings for multidisciplinary care
Externs will also have the opportunity to participate in research focused on eating disorder assessment, diagnosis, and treatment among a largely racial and ethnic minority population of patients.
