iaedp Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS)-clinical foundations flashcards

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Loss of control

The reported experience of being unable to control eating in an episode, which needs characterization alongside amount, context, distress and course.

Compensatory behavior

Behavior intended to counter eating or influence weight that should be assessed separately from the episode itself and for its risks.

Diagnostic formulation

An integrated account of symptoms, course, context, alternatives and maintaining processes, distinct from a conclusion based on appearance or one score.

Behavioral experiment

A collaborative test connecting a specific prediction with an appropriate task, observable result and review, rather than a demand for humiliation or certainty.

Maintaining cycle

A pattern in which thoughts, emotions and behaviors reinforce one another over time, helping identify coherent targets for an individualized treatment plan.

Relapse-prevention plan

An agreed account of warning signs, supports, responses and escalation arrangements that helps address emerging difficulties without interpreting setbacks as moral failure.

Informed participation

Understandable discussion of proposed care, material risks, alternatives, roles and questions, rather than assuming a signature alone establishes the entire process.

Scope of practice

The actual professional activities authorized and supported by the clinician’s underlying license, competence and setting, not automatically expanded by a specialty credential.

Weight bias

Assumptions or judgments based on body size that can distort assessment, access and care instead of evaluating the individual’s clinical presentation.

Refeeding-related risk

Potential metabolic and physiological complications during restoration of nourishment in a susceptible patient, requiring qualified assessment and an appropriate monitored plan.

Electrolyte disturbance

An abnormality in relevant body electrolytes that can affect physiological function and needs interpretation with symptoms, behaviors and the broader medical context.

Medical stabilization

Addressing acute physiological compromise, an important treatment phase that does not by itself establish full behavioral, nutritional or psychological recovery.

Nutrition adequacy

Whether nourishment meets the individual’s relevant needs over the actual pattern, rather than a judgment based solely on one food or meal.

Eating flexibility

A more adaptive pattern with reduced pathological rigidity while preserving adequate nourishment and genuine medical requirements in the person’s current treatment stage.

Medical nutrition therapy

Individualized nutrition care by an appropriately qualified professional, coordinated with medical and psychological needs rather than a universal list of permitted foods.

Growth trajectory

Longitudinal developmental information that helps interpret a young person’s current measurement and whether expected growth has been interrupted or changed.

Caregiver resource

A suitable support person’s practical role in recovery, requiring attention to safety, development and circumstances rather than automatic blame for causation.

Developmental agency

The young person’s growing participation and skills within care, reviewed alongside safety and support rather than treated as either complete independence or no voice.

Approved indication

The use and population identified in a regulatory label, which should not be expanded automatically to every disorder, age group or desired effect.

Contraindication

A condition or circumstance identified as a reason a treatment should not be used under its prescribing information, requiring the appropriate professional review.

Medication monitoring

Review of target effects, adverse concerns, relevant physiological conditions and interactions by the responsible clinicians within an individualized treatment plan.

Integrated formulation

An account of interacting eating-disorder, mental-health and medical needs that avoids assuming one diagnosis explains or excludes every other concern.

Symptom overlap

The possibility that similar experiences reflect multiple nutritional, medical or psychiatric processes, requiring context rather than automatic assignment to one label.

Care coordination

Explicit communication, reconciled instructions and assigned follow-up across clinicians, avoiding a gap in which each service assumes another is responsible.

Service capability

The monitoring, staffing, treatment and response functions a setting actually provides, which must match the patient’s assessed needs rather than its name alone.

Confirmed handoff

A transition in which the receiving service’s acceptance, responsibility, relevant information and follow-up are verified, not merely a referral having been sent.

Escalation pathway

A practical process linking changes in risk with timely assessment, appropriate services and clear responsibility, rather than waiting automatically for a routine meeting.