#64: Preventing and Treating Eating Disorders in Kids with Kelsey Latimer, Pediatric Eating-Disorders Psychologist

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

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🗓️ 28 June 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Christy talks with psychologist and pediatric eating disorders expert Kelsey Latimer, PhD. about ways to prevent eating disorders in children, how to heal families affected by eating disorders, why it's so important to include body positivity in eating disorder prevention and treatment, and lots more!

Kelsey M. Latimer, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in the Center for Pediatric Eating Disorders of Children’s Health/Children’s Medical Center Plano and an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She works in all levels of care, including inpatient and partial hospitalization and leads the intensive outpatient program. Her research is focused on eating disorder prevention and intervention, and clinical outcomes of eating disorder programs.

Dr. Latimer has presented at over 40 regional/national/international conferences on topics of eating disorder treatment, body image and supervision/training. She has also been featured as a media expert source on Fox 4, Cosmopolitan.com, The Washington Post, Gurze Books Newsletter, Brit & Co, and Yahoo Style. Find her on Twitter @DrKelseyLatimer, and learn more about her program at childrens.com/eatingdisorders.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Food Psych, a podcast about nutrition, eating disorders and body image.
0:04.6	I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified
0:08.8	intuitive eating counselor, specializing in health at every size. Join me as I talk with interesting
0:14.2	people from all walks of life about their relationships to food.
0:30.4	Hey guys, welcome to episode 64. So this episode is a little different than the usual ones
0:39.3	in that today we have a special topic all about preventing and treating eating disorders in children.
0:45.1	So it's a special topic because my guest is such an expert on this area. It's Kelsey Latimer.
0:51.1	She's a licensed psychologist at the Center for Pediatric Eating Disorders of Children's
0:56.1	Health and Children's Medical Center in Plano, Texas, and she's also an assistant professor in
1:00.4	psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center. So she's a total badass and she has a lot of great
1:06.4	information to share on eating disorder prevention in children, which of course is related to
1:12.0	eating disorder prevention in the general population and body acceptance and body positivity are big
1:17.8	parts of that. So we talk about a lot of the same themes that we address on the podcast in lots of
1:23.6	different ways, but she really does a great job of distilling information and creating actionable
1:29.6	tips and helping people frame how they see these issues. So if you've ever wondered why we all
1:35.6	live in this media saturated environment, which is full of diet culture at every turn and yet
1:41.8	only some people develop eating disorders while she kind of explains the reasons that that is.
1:47.6	She also gives some really helpful tips for parents who want to know how to prevent eating disorders
1:52.6	and their kids, which are also relevant for people who may have experienced body shame and
1:58.0	eating disorders as children themselves in sort of reflecting on how your parents shaped you
2:04.4	and your relationship to them now because obviously we were all kids once and many of us also
2:10.7	have kids at some point in our lives. So I think the issue of fostering body positivity in children
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