Nursing

Discussion: Parent Guide

Feeding, eating, and elimination disorders can be difficult to detect and treat. Parents need education and information to determine if their infant, child, or adolescent may have these types of disorders. A Parent Guide can be a useful tool to help both the clinician and the parent in understanding the child or adolescent and providing behavioral strategies for helping families work with these disorders. For this Discussion, you will be assigned a feeding, eating, or elimination disorder.

In this Discussion, you develop a Parent Guide for your assigned feeding, eating, or elimination disorder.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

· Analyze signs and symptoms of feeding, eating, and elimination disorders

· Analyze pathophysiology of feeding, eating, and elimination disorders

· Analyze diagnosis and treatment methods for feeding, eating, and elimination disorders

· Create professional cover letters, resumes, and portfolios

To Prepare for this Assignment: PowerPoint

· Discussions instructions below.

Using evidence-based research, design and develop a Parent Guide for your assigned disorder including: see attachment .

· Signs and symptoms

· Pathophysiology

· How the disorder is diagnosed

· Treatment options

Provide a minimum of three academic references
Feeding, Eating, and Elimination Disorders in Childhood

“I am so tired and frustrated. Jackson refuses to breastfeed, and bottle feeding is not much easier. He was the perfect baby when he was born, but now, 6 months later, he is only a few pounds heavier. He won’t take any more than 4 ounces of formula at a time and wakes up several times during the night. We started him on baby food early, but even then he only eats one or two bites before he starts kicking and crying. The pediatrician says there is nothing wrong physically as he is meeting all his milestones, but he just won’t eat.”

Jessica, age 32, mother of Jackson, age 6 months

Children and adolescents with feeding, eating, and elimination disorders may come to the attention of providers in a variety of settings. These disorders are disturbing to parents and may have significant morbidity for youth. It is not uncommon to hear of youth with eating disorders including anorexia and bulimia. It is less common to hear of pica and rumination disorder. Elimination disorders of enuresis and encopresis are troubling to children and parents and cause significant difficulty in daily functioning.

This week, you work with your group again to develop a Parent Guide for a feeding, eating, or elimination disorder. You also submit your cover letter, resume, and portfolio.

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Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.

· Chapter 28, “Psychotherapies” (pp. 901–907)

· Chapter 31, “Child Psychiatry” (pp. 1205–1216)

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

· “Feeding and Eating Disorders”

· “Elimination Disorders”

Note: You will access this book from the Walden Library databases.

Lock, J., & La Via, M. C. (2015). Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with eating disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 54(5), 412–425. Retrieved from http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567(15)00070-2/pdf

Stahl, S. M. (2014). Prescriber’s Guide: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology (5th ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Note: All Stahl resources can be accessed through the Walden Library using the link. This link will take you to a login page for the Walden Library. Once you log in to the library, the Stahl website will appear.

To access information on the following medications, click on The Prescriber’s Guide, 5th Ed. tab on the Stahl Online website and select the appropriate medication.

Optional Resources

Thapar, A., Pine, D. S., Leckman, J. F., Scott, S., Snowling, M. J., & Taylor, E. A. (2015). Rutter’s child and adolescent psychiatry (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.

· Chapter 71, “Feeding and Eating Disorders” (pp. 1016–1034)