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Direct linkTarren-Sweeney, Michael – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
The paper reports epidemiological and phenomenological investigations of aberrant eating among 347 pre-adolescent children in court-ordered foster and kinship care, in New South Wales, Australia. A quarter of children displayed clinically significant aberrant eating problems, with no evidence of gender or age effects. Two distinct patterns were…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Foster Care, Epidemiology, Family Relationship
