Cultural Competence in Eating Disorder Care
What is Cultural Competence? Cultural competence in healthcare is “the ability to provide care to patients with diverse values, beliefs…
Internalized Bias in HealthCare
Internalized bias is an “unfair belief, assumption or generalization about an individual or group of people based on personal characteristics…
What is Burnout?
Clinician burnout definition is a response to occupational stress that causes emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a sense of reduced accomplishment….
Family-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders
Family-Based Treatment (FBT) is one of the leading evidence-based treatments for eating disorders among children and adolescents. FBT recognizes the…
Ghrelin Vs. Leptin
Our appetites are regulated by a complex combination of hormones, hunger, and desire.1 Leptin and ghrelin, two hormones that have…
Ozempic and Other Semaglutide Injections
The Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) medication, Ozempic, has been at the forefront of public interest over the past few…
Medications for Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are psychiatric disorders that involve serious medical and nutritional complications.1 Behavioural treatments for eating disorders often begin with…
Flaws Behind Body Mass Index (BMI)
Please note: At Change Creates Change, we do not use language such as ‘overweight,’ ‘underweight,’ ‘healthy,’ or ‘unhealthy.’ However, we will…
Race and Eating Disorders
Eating disorders have long been stereotyped as only affecting white/Caucasian female teenagers. However, recently there have been many studies that…
Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Eating disorders (ED) are becoming more prevalent in younger children and adolescents, creating a significant need for primary care providers…
