Category: Referrals
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Eating Disorder Recovery, Support, and What Providers Can Actually Change
Ask most clinicians what a patient with an eating disorder needs, and “a good support system” appears somewhere near the top of the list. It is one of those phrases that sounds like a clinical recommendation and behaves like a hope. It’s vague in what it means, who is meant to build it, or what…
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Four Steps to Making an Eating Disorder Referral That Works
You notice the signs. You have a clinical suspicion, maybe a strong one. And then comes the part nobody really trained you for: what do you actually say? How do you bring it up without alarming the patient, triggering defensiveness, or watching them nod politely and never follow through? Why Referrals Fail (And Why It…