Early identification and treatment of eating disorders: prodrome to syndrome
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Early identification and treatment of eating disorders: prodrome to syndrome.
The onset of eating disorder psychopathology is most common in the adolescent age group. Acute psychopathology or subsyndromal eating disorders are perhaps less intractable in these young patients. Subsyndromal eating disorders in children and adolescents are not only clinically significant in their present state, but may represent legitimate candidates for preventive efforts in light of: (i) a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Early Intervention in Psychiatry
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1751-7885,1751-7893
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7893.2007.00007.x