Category: Research

In this third post that June Alexander has adapted from Alykhan’s Asaria’s article on improving eating disorder care for underserved groups, three more underserved groups are discussed — younger children, people with under-recognised eating disorders, and people with higher weights. Younger children and pre-adolescents Children under 13, and by implication,...

With my co-author, Professor Daniel Le Grange, I’m delighted to announce the worldwide release of My Kid is Back, Second Edition. We thank families from Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand for contributing to this new book’s powerful message about Family-Based Treatment (FBT), the most effective...

Have you become acquainted with Artificial Intelligence (AI) yet, or are you fearful of it? After initial hesitation, I decided to give it a go. My youngest son, Ben, who has always worked in Information Technology and is doing his Master’s in AI, said, “Get with it, Mum. AI is...

In the second post that June Alexander has adapted from Alykhan Asaria’s article on improving eating disorder care for underserved groups, the first of 12 underserved groups are discussed – people with longstanding eating disorders and older people with an eating disorder. Anecdotally, eating disorder (ED) sufferers are considered ‘older’...

In this first post that June Alexander has adapted from Alykhan Asaria’s article on improving eating disorder care, underserved groups and humanistic eating disorder care are discussed. This article on improving access to eating disorder (ED) care is informed by my lived experiences, independent research, and involvement in the underappreciated...

Korea’s Eating Disorder Awareness Week (EDAW) 2025 was a whirlwind. I lived like a ghost, confined to my room packed with boxed props. My resignation letter had been submitted to my full-time job. My focus was stretched thin across every detail of the daily sessions: ticketing, Instagram promotions, Google Meet...

A recent article published on this blog (Imagine a Global Board for Eating Disorders) proposed an international governing body that would bring together experts, voices from lived experience, advocates, and industry leaders to tackle the complexities of eating disorders. That vision is no longer an idea. It’s a reality. To...

I am surrounded by 10 family members inside the National Library of Australia, Canberra. We are in a private reading room to visit my diary ‘family’, the early years of which are spread before us on a long table. Emotions bubble within—I feel exposed, unclothed, with my mind, heart, and...

As the sole host of Korea’s Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW), I am researching the themes and issues to be covered in the seven sessions of our third event in February 2025. To fully understand and engage with these topics, I immerse myself deeply, processing them, formulating insightful questions to...

It’s funny when we realise that we have feet in two worlds that barely speak to each other. I have one foot in the world of eating disorder (ED) research and treatment and the other in the world of literary studies. The literary people tend to assume that books must...