Decoding Dinner Battles: What to Know About ARFID and Picky Eating

This lecture will provide in-depth information on avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) and picky eating.

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Course curriculum

    1. Video Course

    1. Evaluation

Course Details

  • $18.00
  • 1 hour of video content
  • Presented by Malka Sears PhD

About the course

1.0 contact hour (CE credit)
Expiration date: October 17, 2027

This lecture will provide in-depth information on avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) and picky eating including:

  • Overview of ARFID: Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder

  • Symptoms and presentation

  • Red flags

  • Predispositions

  • Associated health and behavioral issues

  • Nursing interventions 

  • Activating events and ABCs of behavior

  • Treatment modalities and estimated timelines: FBT, CBT, and SPACE

  • Interdisciplinary care: Involving psychologists, dieticians, and therapists

  • Refeeding syndrome: lab work and symptoms


Learning Outcome
The learner will report this educational activity provides information that improves, supports, or causes a change in their practice.

This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

To obtain CE credits, learners must complete 90% of the lecture. Partial credit will not be granted. Learners will receive a CE certificate upon completion of the lecture and submission of a course evaluation form. 

Commercial Support
There is no commercial support for this lecture. 

Conflict of Interest
The presenter declares no conflicts of interest.

Instructor

Malka Sears

PhD

Dr. Malka Sears is a licensed clinical psychologist in New Jersey and New York, specializing in treating children, adolescents, and adults. Her expertise includes eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder, body image, anxiety, and depression.

Dr. Sears earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a health emphasis from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. Her training involved a pre-doctoral internship at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center, a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Mount Sinai Eating and Weight Disorders Program, Icahn School of Medicine, and clinical training at New York-Presbyterian Westchester and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Leveraging her health psychology background, Dr. Sears employs a multidimensional treatment approach. Her clinical focus covers assessment and treatment for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID/extreme picky eating), anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, other specified feeding and eating disorders, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Sears utilizes evidence-based, collaborative, empathetic, and supportive methods to guide effective treatment, aiming to equip individuals and families with practical skills for self-efficacy and empowerment. At her clinic, Center for Evidence Based Psychology, Dr. Sears offers in-person sessions in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and virtual telehealth services for clients in New Jersey, New York, and PSYPACT-participating states.