CONCLUDING COMMENTS
It is often difficult for clinicians to clearly separate
out somatic and psychological aspects of pre-
sentations, and a significant number of children
presenting with clinically significant difficulties
fail to meet diagnostic criteria. The prevailing
situation regarding classification and terminology
Box 21.4
Core components of
treatment
•
Improve nutritional status
•
Facilitate development of
appetite/skills acquisition opportunities
•
Behavioural/psychological interventions
•
Educate and support caregivers
•
Liaison with wider system, to include
school, other care providers
represents a significant problem for the field
and has contributed to a relatively poor state of
knowledge with regard to treatment interventions,
course, prognosis and outcome. This represents a
major challenge and a priority for further work.
In addition robust, well-validated assessment
tools are lacking, making it difficult to obtain
reliable incidence and prevalence rates. There are
few long-term follow-up studies of early feeding
problems from which to gauge longer term risks,
and very limited longitudinal data of specific types
of feeding difficulty leading to relatively poor
knowledge about course and prognosis. We do
know, however, that behavioural interventions are
often associated with significant improvements
in feeding behaviour [11], and with proposals
for DSM 5 and ICD-11 on the horizon, new
opportunities for research in relation to treatment
and outcome may be stimulated.
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