61st Annual Meeting

October 18 - 25, 2014

Clinical Consultation Breakfast 13 (sold out)

Anorexia Nervosa: What to Do When Treatment Fails for Kids and Teens

Denial of the illness and avoidance of treatment goals represent significant obstacles to therapeutic engagement for many children and adolescents who might otherwise have a reasonable prognosis of recovery from anorexia nervosa and, thus, coercive treatment might play a vital, life-saving role for certain patients. This CCB helps attendees recognize when the clinical safety considerations of individuals with anorexia nervosa require increasing levels of coercive treatment; and when issues of capacity to make treatment decisions may require a range of treatment options from voluntary, to coercive, to compulsory. The role of the parents in the treatment process will be described, including when parents do not consent to medically necessary care and do not cooperate with treatment.