🗞️ This week’s Journal Club explores when it’s the right time to end family therapy for young people with anorexia nervosa and how this impacts recovery.
Findings highlight key themes around therapy endings and the recovery journey 🧡
👉 Read the full paper via the link in our bio
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This week’s Journal Club explores social functioning in adolescent eating disorders through a lived experience framework.
Findings highlight the importance of understanding real-life social experiences in shaping clinical care 🧡
👉 Read the full paper via the link in our bio
🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores how childhood autistic and ADHD traits are linked to adolescent eating behaviours.
Findings suggest anxiety may help explain these links🧡
👉Read the full paper via the link in our bio
🗞️This week’s Journal Club highlights a study exploring young people’s experiences of eating disorder content on TikTok.
The findings show how algorithms can shape what users see, sometimes increasing exposure to harmful content 🩵
👉Read the full paper via the link in our bio
📰This week’s Journal Club highlights a study on TrEAT, a new eating disorder registry across Australia and New Zealand.
The registry gathers data from treatment services to better understand outcomes and improve eating disorder care.
Read the full paper via the link in our bio ☝️
🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores turning points in eating disorder recovery among people from marginalised communities.
The study highlights how identity, connection, and belonging can shape recovery journeys.
Read more via Linktree☝️
Eating Disorder Awareness Week reminds us that recovery is rooted in community💙
Together, we can challenge stigma, support one another, and build a culture of care where well-being comes first.
📣Join EDCRN in creating a more compassionate and connected community.
📚A fascinating journal club this week from the PEACE pathway about the sensory landscape and embodied experiences in anorexia nervosa.
To read the full paper, follow this link: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39685631/
📣Registration is now open for F.E.A.S.T. of Knowledge 2026: an online conference for parents & caregivers of people with eating disorders.
🔗Register here: feast-ed.org/2026-feast-o...
🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores research on how early weight-loss behaviours are linked to sleep and mental health later in adolescence💤
The findings highlight how closely eating behaviours, mood, and physical health are connected over time.
Read more via Linktree☝️
🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores research on autism and eating disorder risk.
The study highlights how sensory overwhelm and social camouflaging can combine to increase eating disorder symptoms in autistic adults.
Read more via our Linktree ☝️
🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores research on childhood food insecurity and eating disorder symptoms.
The study highlights how early experiences with food insecurity can be linked to disordered eating in adolescence.
Read more via the link in our bio ☝️
🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores research on public engagement in eating disorder research.
The paper highlights why involving lived experience, carers, clinicians, and researchers is essential.
Read more via the link in our bio☝️
🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores research on how hunger affects mood, mental health, and everyday functioning.
The findings highlight the close links between hunger, emotions, and wellbeing.
Read more via the link in our bio ☝️
This week’s Journal Club, we explored predictors of treatment outcomes in early intervention for eating disorders 📊
Using FREED data @freedfromed.bsky.social the study highlights how stress, symptoms, and waiting times can shape recovery outcomes.
Read more on our Linktree 💙
Shout out to @eatsleeplaugh.bsky.social, @emynimbley.bsky.social, Kyle Buchan and the @edaceatingautism.bsky.social team for an awesome publication - the subject of @edcrn.bsky.social latest journal club! 😀
🗞️ This week’s journal club features a study exploring how autistic people with lived experience can guide eating disorder research.
The findings underline the importance of inclusive, creative, and experience-led approaches.
Read more in our Linktree! ☝️
📄 This week’s journal club looks at a study exploring how eating disorder symptoms differ across diverse groups of young people.
The findings highlight why inclusive data matters for early detection - something EDCRN is working to strengthen.
Read more in our Linktree!☝️
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This week’s journal club highlights a study exploring what parents and caregivers feel supports real change in family therapy for anorexia.
Their insights highlight the crucial role families play in recovery.
Read more in our Linktree! ☝️
Curious about what it means to be part of EDCRN?
✨Here’s a glimpse of what joining the EDCRN as a site will look like!
To learn more or express interest, email edcrn@kcl.ac.uk
🎗️Awareness is the first step towards change.
Men deserve to be included, feel seen, and feel supported.
At EDCRN, we’re pushing for better understanding, recognition, and treatment of eating disorders in men 💚
#edcrn #eatingdisorders #eatingdisordersresearch #mensmentalhealth
Help shape the future of Eating Disorders! 📃
🔗 Take part in our survey now, link in bio
Closes: 16th Nov, Midnight
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Say hello 👋 to our placement students!
We are excited to have them on board. 🎉 Welcome to the team! #EDCRN @edgiuk.bsky.social @gladstudy.bsky.social #EatingDisorder
Are you interested in eating disorders funding and research?🔬
Please help us develop some key messaging to deliver to stakeholders to help increase investment in eating disorder research by completing the following survey!
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A valuable read from @ameaustin.bsky.social and @karina-maudsley.bsky.social on the importance of collecting routine outcome measures in eating disorders - and the potential of this to tranform care for individuals affected 🫶🏻🤍
🔬This week’s journal club ➡️ Our co-principal investigator, Dr Karina Allen, recently published this paper on why routine outcome measurement is key in the eating disorders field.
Read the paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40640949/
Happy World Mental Health Day! 🧠
The theme this year is ‘Access to Services - Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies’.
📢New blog alert📢
@annacarnegie.bsky.social from @edcrn.bsky.social talks about the importance of trust in treatment, and how being treated as a unique individual with different interests and hopes for the future helped her recover from anorexia.
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🔬 This week’s journal club is a paper authored by EDCRN’s co-principal investigator, Dr Karina Allen! The paper looks at the effect of early interventions on young people with eating disorders.
To read the paper, see 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40878998/