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.
Fishbein
Mark
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SIU School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Springfield, IL 62794-9658, USA. mfishbein@siumed.edu
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Sibyl
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Swenny
Cheryl
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Mogren
Chris
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Walbert
Laura
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Fraker
Cheri
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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