iaedp Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS)-clinical foundations cheat sheet
CEDS · Keep the key ideas within reach.
Assess the eating pattern, its context, and current risk
Assess behaviors, thoughts, functioning, trajectory, and context.
Distinguish screening, diagnostic formulation, and immediate risk.
Consider alternative explanations and developmental history.
Do not infer safety or diagnosis from body size alone.
Match treatment to the formulation and monitor meaningful change
Connect the modality to the actual formulation and risks.
Coordinate psychological, nutritional, and medical treatment.
Use family or chosen supports without blame or automatic loss of agency.
Monitor function and behavior as well as isolated measurements.
Protect autonomy, access, confidentiality, and professional boundaries
Respect the underlying license and assignment of clinical roles.
Assess individuals without weight, gender, or cultural stereotypes.
Separate disagreement, capacity, confidentiality, and legal duties.
Coordinate care through truthful records and appropriate information sharing.
Recognize medical risk and coordinate timely assessment
Assess medical risk across systems and over time.
Do not equate normal appearance or one normal result with safety.
Treat refeeding risk through qualified monitoring and appropriate care.
Keep stabilization, continuing treatment, and responsibility for results distinct.
Nutritional assessment and rehabilitation within coordinated care
Assess adequacy, timing, flexibility, access, and medical context.
Distinguish genuine medical needs from unsupported eating rules.
Individualize rehabilitation and coordinate medical monitoring.
Keep classroom calculations separate from patient-specific prescriptions.
Development, caregivers, growth, and collaborative support
Assess growth and developmental context, not one current number.
Use caregivers as resources without assigning blame.
Clarify consent, confidentiality, and protective duties for the actual setting.
Plan school, activity, and care transitions with the team.
Medication roles, evidence, monitoring, and prescribing boundaries
Match evidence and approval to the actual indication and age group.
Use medication within a coordinated plan when appropriate.
Consider medical risk, interactions, and professional prescribing authority.
Verify current information without inventing doses or weight-loss regimens.
Integrate the eating disorder with other clinical needs
Assess overlapping symptoms in their nutritional and clinical context.
Prioritize immediate risk while coordinating relevant treatments.
Respect condition-specific medical care and professional roles.
Track outcomes and responsibility across the integrated plan.
Choose a setting that can safely deliver the required treatment
Match the service's actual capabilities to combined clinical needs.
Avoid single-number admission or discharge rules.
Escalate risk through a timely, explained, appropriate process.
Verify responsibility and follow-up at every transition.