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The term feeding disorder is still in use clinically but will increasingly be replaced by the term avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. This important change is a result of criticism that the diagnostic term “feeding disorder of infancy and early childhood” has historically focused on weight loss and has low clinical utility, i.e., it does not capture many well-described presentations (Bryant-Waugh et al. 2010; Norris et al. 2016). The age criteria (onset before age six) have also limited its application to presentations in older children and adults. Nonetheless, the majority of those presenting clinically with feeding disorders are young children, and this is reflected in the approach to assessment outlined in this chapter. The assessment protocol described below is for feeding difficulties that have reached clinical significance, i.e., in patients where there is demonstrated physical, nutritional, psychological, or social impact of the feeding problem. Patients for...
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Nicholls, D., McCrann, U. (2016). Feeding Disorders, Assessment of. In: Wade, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Feeding and Eating Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-087-2_150-1
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