Psychology · Clinical Psychology
A study of 240 adults from Western and East Asian cultural contexts found that selfies and self-descriptions together were more useful for modeling self-reported body satisfaction than either type of material alone. The associations differed between the groups, but the study did not show that social media behavior causes body satisfaction or provide a clinical assessment.
This continuing-education review describes pediatric feeding disorders in children, especially those under age 5, and explains how primary-care clinicians can recognize and assess them. It summarizes a four-part framework covering medical, nutritional, feeding-skill, and psychosocial factors, along with screening tools and referral guidance. The article is a review of existing guidance, not a new study measuring outcomes in a newly enrolled group of children.
This narrative review examined eating-disorder-focused family therapy for autistic children and young people. It reports that research has linked autism or high autistic traits with greater escalation to intensive care and less positive experiences of therapy, but the review does not show that therapy adaptations cause better outcomes.
New research using repeated daily reports links different kinds of body-focused social media content to different body image and disordered-eating-related urges. The study also tested whether body image might push people toward more such content, finding a limited reverse effect.
