Teen Eating Issues
About
The number of teenage girls with eating disorders has increased dramatically since the start of the COVID pandemic. A new study, published in the Lancet Child And Adolescent Health journal found that since March 2020 eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia were 42% higher than would be expected for teenage girls aged 13-16, and 32% higher for those aged 17-19. Eating disorders can affect many adolescents and so we want to talk about the different types of eating disorders including restricted eating, anorexia, bulimia and bingeing. We'll hear from Dr Bryony Bamford and Specialist Dietitian, Cliona Brennan, from the London Centre for Eating Disorders about how you can support your young person on their recovery journey and how to support other family members.
Speakers
Bryony Bamford
Dr
Dr Bryony Bamford has worked with individuals with eating disorders for the past 20 years. Bryony is the Founder and Director of The London Centre for Eating Disorders and Body Image, a private psychology led outpatient clinic that offers highly specialist treatment to eating disorder sufferers of all ages, as well as to their families and carers. Bryony is co-author of the book Bulimia binge-eating and their treatment, and has published a large number of research papers related to the treatment of eating disorders. Bryony is passionate about raising awareness and fighting the stigma and misunderstandings that still exist around eating disorders today.
Cliona Brennan
Miss
Cliona is a Specialist Child and Adolescent Dietitian with the London Centre for Eating Disorders and Body Image. She has extensive experience within the field of eating disorders and has experience working with both children, young people and adults within both NHS and private settings. She specialises in anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and ARFID, as well as undiagnosed or unclassified disordered eating. Cliona is passionate about providing evidence-based. nutritional interventions as part of a multi-disciplinary team and believes that expanding the evidence base and knowledge on eating disorders assessment and treatment is imperative to improving patient care. Cliona is also actively involved in research within her specialist field and is currently undertaking a study which will evaluate the use of our National guidance for managing eating disorders across London services, with the aim of improving both assessment and onward management of patients.
