A peaceful, happy and healthy childhood with completion of developmental goals can be severely disrupted by illness, especially by chronic illness.
The developmental tasks of childhood and adolescence are roughly:
Eating disorders strike children at virtually all stages of development. Sometimes we think it’s most difficult when they strike a very young child, sometimes it seems the most difficult when a “child” is about to go off to college, or a student exchange program, or start a new school. Personally I think mid adolescence is one of the most difficult times for an eating disorder to strike a child.
Childhood and early adolescence are characterized by learning new skills, but also by…
Read MoreAt Kartini Clinic our evolution to the current levels of care we offer has been a long one. In the first days of the clinic we offered only inpatient (hospital rounds for medical stabilization) and outpatient care. In 2000 we developed the day treatment (partial hospital) level of care. This was a big step forward and allowed us to “gently land” patients, who required brief medical stabilization in hospital, to a lower level of care. In day treatment, such patients could get a lot…
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