What is it about?
The purpose of this study was to describe a brief intensive outpatient feeding treatment program for children with pediatric feeding problem and to report the effects on caregiver-child interactions. Findings showed improvements of interactions between caregivers and their children within a mealtime context, decreased problematic mealtime behaviors, and improved caregiver use of effective mealtime strategies. The study also showed decreases in caregiver distress and decreases in caregiver perceptions of their child as "difficult". These findings support the use of a brief intensive outpatient treatment program. Despite the short treatment duration, caregivers learn strategies that facilitated effective interactions between themselves and their children within a feeding context.
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Why is it important?
Intensive outpatient behavioral feeding programs are frequently used in the treatment of severe feeding disorders to decrease negative mealtime behaviors of affected children and improve caregiver-child mealtime interactions. Yet, there are few descriptions of these clinical practices and their clinical effectiveness.
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These findings support the use of a brief intensive outpatient treatment program. Despite the short treatment duration, caregivers learn strategies that facilitated effective interactions between themselves and their children within a feeding context.
Dr Alan Silverman
Medical College of Wisconsin
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This page is a summary of: Caregiver impressions of clinical effectiveness of an intensive behavioral feeding program., Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology, September 2018, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/cpp0000235.
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