• Duration

    2 hours

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    An Introduction to ARFID Avoidance Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

    ARFID experts Dr Gillian Harris and Sarah Mason deliver a webinar on supporting a child or young person with feeding & eating difficulties.
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    Meet the instructor

    Dr Gillian Harris 

    Dr Gillian Harris (Phd, MSc, Ba, AFBPsS, C.Psychol) has carried out research into infant and child feeding behaviour and appetite regulation at the University of Birmingham, School of Psychology for the past 30 years.

    She was also a Consultant Paediatric Clinical Psychologist for 27 years and led a feeding clinic at The Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, where she worked with infants and children who were food averse.

    Her specific research and clinical interest is the development of food acceptance and rejection in early infancy and early childhood, and the effect of early experience on later food preferences.

    She has written around 100 published papers, articles and book chapters on these areas, and been awarded multiple research grants to support her research.
    Patrick Jones - Course author
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    Sarah Mason 

    Sarah Mason (MSc, MPhil, MRCSLT) is a Speech and Language Therapist who has worked with children with feeding difficulties for more than twenty years.

    She was employed by Birmingham Children’s Hospital from 1992 to 2012, latterly as Head of the Department. Her particular specialism was childhood feeding difficulties, providing clinical services to inpatients.

    Many of these children had problems related to their medical conditions, tube feeding and the interruption to the normal process of weaning onto solid foods in the first year of life. Frequently children would refuse foods orally and therefore did not develop the oral skills for eating and drinking. These problems brought her into contact with Dr Gillian Harris, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, and together they set up a joint feeding clinic at Birmingham Children’s Hospital in 1998.

    Through this work she encountered children with avoidant /restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) and developed an understanding of why children refuse foods. Sarah Mason also developed a particular interest in children who are hard to wean off tube feeding. This became the focus of her MPhil completed in 2006 at the School of Psychology, Birmingham University. 
    Patrick Jones - Course author