Providers of mental-health services still rely on intervention techniques such as physical restraint and confinement to control some psychiatric hospital patients, a practice which can cause harm to ...

In recent years, I have encountered a subgroup of individuals in my eating disorder practice who have binge eating disorder and struggle with the traditional “all foods fit” model. They have ...

Obesity risk genes make people feel hungrier and lose control over their eating, but practicing dietary restraint could counteract this. New research found that those with higher genetic risk of ...

A teacher asks her students to take out a pencil for a pop quiz, but one child won’t pick up his pencil. The teacher repeats her request. The child refuses. What happens next—what sort of discipline ...