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Feeding Disorders in the Developmentally Disabled Population

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Behavioral Medicine with the Developmentally Disabled

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Consistent with the growing focus on health promotion, eating and other food-related problems have received increased attention in the behavioral medicine literature. Experimental investigations have spanned a continuum of eating problems from eating excesses, such as obesity and bulimia, to eating deficits, such as anorexia nervosa and nonorganic failure-to-thrive. More recently, researchers have attended to the treatment of organic feeding problems that may be associated with a chronic medical illness (such as short gut syndrome) or produced iatrogenically secondary to medical treatment (e.g., Ginsberg & Klonoff, 1985).

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  1. Behavior Therapy Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, USA

    Amy J. Ginsberg

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    Dennis C. Russo

  2. Kennedy Memorial Hospital for Children, Brighton, Massachusetts, USA

    Jurgen H. Kedesdy

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    Jurgen H. Kedesdy

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Ginsberg, A.J. (1988). Feeding Disorders in the Developmentally Disabled Population. In: Russo, D.C., Kedesdy, J.H. (eds) Behavioral Medicine with the Developmentally Disabled. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0999-4_2

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