We understand only too well that insurance is often a source of concern to families. Our doctors and nurses work together with our staff of expert psychotherapists specifically trained in family therapy and family-centered treatment of eating disorders. Our staff includes two full-time physicians, board-certified in pediatrics.Īnd your child will be treated by Kartini medical providers at all levels of care. We focus exclusively on children in order to provide them and their families with the very best care to be found anywhere in the country. We don’t mix our patients with those who suffer from substance abuse or other behavioral health diagnoses. Treating children and young adults ages 6 to 18 is all we do! Unlike most eating disorder treatment programs, our program is a dedicated pediatric program. Today Kartini Clinic is once again at the forefront of treatment innovation through the use of cutting-edge pharmacogenomic and metabolic testing, combined with our proven clinical track record of weight restoration and experience in treating more than 3000 children.
At Kartini Clinic we don’t believe that “underlying psychological factors” explain the causes or symptoms of eating disorders, and the best available scientific evidence also does not support this out-dated – but still prevalent – theory. They are not a flight from trauma, a socio-economic syndrome, or a creation of our popular culture. Eating disorders are biological illnesses of the brain. Fortunately, scientific evidence is now unequivocal. When we began treating children in 1998 very few programs even acknowledged eating disorders to be biologically based, much less provided evidence-based treatment for them. Kartini Clinic pioneered the medical model of pediatric eating disorder treatment. We work together with you to secure lasting recovery for your child. Parents are and always have been an integral part of our treatment team, and are involved every step of the way, at all levels of care. Kartini Clinic has always practiced family-centered treatment. Our overriding treatment goal is to secure lasting remission of eating disorder symptoms, allowing patients and their families to return to their own communities. This is followed by individualized psychotherapy to treat the whole child, not simply one or more of their eating disorder symptoms. We begin with prompt, adequate weight restoration as the essential first step in effective treatment. We don’t place our children on psychiatric wards or utilize surgical interventions. Tom Insel, director of the NIMH on this crucially important scientific understanding of eating disorders, such as anorexia, as highly heritable brain circuit disorders Thankfully even the National Institutes of Mental Health now agree with us. Since our founding in 1998 we have always practiced in the knowledge that parents don’t cause eating disorders and children don’t choose to have them. Our Treatment PhilosophyĪnother distinct difference is Kartini Clinic’s treatment philosophy.
You will always have a chance to meet with a Kartini pediatrician before any treatment begins. Unlike most programs, we never admit families to our program over the phone. That’s why every new family at Kartini has the opportunity for an individual, in-person or virtual consultation with Kartini Clinic’s Medical Director, Naghmeh Moshtael MD.
That’s why we often spend a great deal of time answering questions during the initial intake process, including what we like to call the Top Three, or Everything You Wanted to Know About Eating Disorders (but were afraid to ask!):Īll families deserve honest answers to these important questions. We understand the urgency you feel when it comes to your child’s health. You won’t get an answering machine or phone queue because we know that every call to us is vitally important. We work very hard to answer each and every call with a real live, caring human being. It begins with your very first phone call to us. At Kartini Clinic we do aspire to be different.
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