Psychiatria pre prax 3/2001

Specification of eating disorders in children and adolescents – diagnostical and therapeutical issues

Paper dials with specific characteristics of eating disorders in childhood and in early adolescence. Eating disorders appear in childhood less frequently than in adolescence and adult age (only about 5% of patients are children below 12 years) but they represent serious challenge to the development process oth at the biological and psychological level. Paper gives specific characteristics and syndromes of eating disorders in childhood and early adolescence.

Keywords: Eating disorders, early onset, specific syndromes in children.