Food chaining: a systematic approach for the treatment of children with feeding aversion.
Food chaining has been developed as a systematic method for the treatment of children with extreme food selectivity. Food chaining is an individualized, non-threatening, home-based feeding program designed to expand food repertoire by emphasizing similar features between accepted and targeted food items. This chart review illustrates the efficacy of food chaining in treating aversive feeding disorders.
SIU School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Springfield, IL 62794-9658, USA. mfishbein@siumed.edu
Mark
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Fishbein
Sibyl
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Cox
Cheryl
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Swenny
Chris
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Mogren
Laura
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Walbert
Cheri
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Fraker
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D005518:Food Preferences / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012189:Retrospective Studies