Care setting overview
Eating Disorders
BH-EDOCoordinated treatment that addresses psychiatric symptoms, nutrition, medical stability, body image, behavior patterns, development, family context, and recovery goals.
- Care model
- Integrated psychiatric, nutritional, and medical specialty care
- Typical pace
- Structured monitoring with visit frequency and level of care driven by medical, nutritional, behavioral, and psychiatric risk
- Population
- Children, adolescents, and adults with restrictive eating, binge eating, compensatory behaviors, avoidant intake, or other eating-disorder symptoms
Common presentations
- Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, ARFID, and other specified eating disorders
- Restriction, bingeing, purging, compulsive exercise, weight change, and body-image distress
- Electrolyte abnormalities, bradycardia, orthostasis, gastrointestinal symptoms, endocrine effects, depression, anxiety, OCD, trauma, and suicide risk
PMHNP priorities
- Assess medical stability and determine whether outpatient care remains safe
- Track eating behaviors, compensatory behaviors, vital signs, laboratory findings, function, and psychiatric risk
- Coordinate one coherent plan and avoid reinforcing weight stigma or unproductive conflict about food and weight
Care team
PMHNPs, eating-disorder psychiatrists, primary care or adolescent medicine clinicians, dietitians, therapists, nurses, medical specialists, and family or chosen supports