PODCAST EPISODE

Session 206: An Introduction to Feeding Challenges

Instructor: Melissa Gonzalez, Ph.D., BCBA-D

CE Offering: 1.5

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In Session 206, I spoke with Dr. Melissa Gonzalez, BCBA-D, about Pediatric Feeding Disorders, and what Applied Behavior Analysis can offer in this area. 

Melissa is the Clinical Therapy Director at the Siskin Children's Institute in Chattanooga, Tennessee, arriving there by way of Louisiana State University's Clinical Psychology program and the Kennedy Krieger Institute, amongst other career waypoints. 

In this episode, we discussed how she got into working with individuals with Pediatric Feeding Disorders (PFDs), what are the diagnostic criteria for this repertoire, what we know what works for PFDs, the difference between picky eaters and individuals with PFDs, the importance of taking a multidisciplinary approach to treatment, and much more!

This is a topic I'm not terribly familiar with, so I learned a ton. If you have the same reaction to this podcast, please share it with friends and colleagues!

Here are some of the resources we discussed:

• Feedingmatters.org 
• Pediatric Feeding Disorders Fact Sheet 
• S3E7: Ethical Considerations of Behavioral Feeding Interventions with Lisa Tereshko and Mary Jane Weiss
• Ethical Considerations of Behavioral Feeding Interventions (the paper... Tereshko, et al., 2021).
• Pediatric Feeding Disorder: A Nationwide Prevalence Study (Kovacic, et al., 2020).
• Pediatric Feeding Disorder: Consensus Definition and Conceptual Framework (Goday, et al., 2019).

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