Children of parents with eating disorder

Joint Event on 4^th World Congress on Nursing Education & Research & Annual Congress on Child Care: Mental Health, Psychology & Nursing

April 12-13, 2019 | Toronto, Canada

Ali Jawad Alsaad

King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

Eating disorders typically start at puberty-early adulthood and tend to have a chronic course. They are commonly studied in females and less common in males. Different mechanisms of transmission of eating disturbance and psychopathology have been identified, including genetic, epigenetics, parental eating pathology, parenting style, learned behavior, and discordant marital and family relationships. Eating disorders have an impact on the individual and on the family. There is cumulative evidence in the literature to suggest that offsprings of a parent with an eating disorder have an increased risk for psychopathology. The impact of ED on the child could start any time in the childâ??s life, i.e Intrauterine up to late adolescence years. On the other hand, few studies looked at intervention with the parents who struggle with an eating disorder and how should it improve the childrenâ??s psychological/medical outcome. To increase awareness regarding eating disorders and their chronic impacts on the children of parents with an eating disorder. To review current interventions and to suggest possible modifications.

Biography :

I did my psychiatry ersidency at Mcgill university (2016) and then did my subspeciality training in Child and adolescent psychiatry at Mcmaster University (2017). I then did an advanced child and adolescent psychotherapy fellowship at Mcmaster (2018). I recently started working at King Faisal university in Saudi Arabia.

E-mail: dr_alsaad@hotmail.com