title: [Feeding disorders in infants and toddlers: advantages of a joint consultation with pediatrician and psychologist].
abstract: Feeding disorders and food refusal can be found in 25% of infants, a minority of these disorders has an organic explanation. Failure to thrive and/or severe malnutrition is found in 3-5% of infants in the general population. The authors describe the various phases of the interdisciplinary therapeutic intervention by underlining the advantages and the objectives to integrate therapeutic approaches across professional boundaries. Caregiver-infant relationship disturbances are certainly the most important factor, but the induced psychosomatic conditions also have a multifactorial etiology. This article points out the specificities of the disorders of infant feeding behaviors and explains the advantages of a joint pediatrician-psychologist consultation compared to separate consultations in pediatrics and child psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Équipe mobile de psychiatrie de liaison, SUPEA, département médico-chirurgical de pédiatrie, hôpital des enfants, CHU de Toulouse, 330, avenue de Grande-Bretagne, 31059 Toulouse cedex 9, France. cascales.t@chu-toulouse.fr
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cascales
authors.forename: J-P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Olives
mesh_terms: D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010372:Pediatrics; D011584:Psychology