Extreme Food Refusal - A guide for parents and caregivers - pack of 20
Written by the BDA Paediatric Specialist Group (2020) these 20 page A5 booklets are sold in packs of 20
Information on how to manage children and adolescents with extreme food refusal including diagnoses of avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) and autism. Advice on the difference between fussy eating and extreme food refusal and the different management techniques that should be used and what should not be used. Practical advice on:
- How to assess for sensory sensitivities
- Motivation and readiness to change
- Other reasons for food refusal
- Introducing a new food or vitamin and mineral supplement
- Desensitisation
- Messy food play
- Managing rigidity
- Food chaining
- Managing anxiety
