Assistant Professor and Director of Teen POWER and Clinical-Research Training at the Yale Program for Obesity, Weight and Eating Research. Views are my own.
New Haven, CT
Joined June 2014
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We also have an exciting new information series for teachers and staff! Here’s a message written by our teen advisory board about the educator-targeted program:
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💙Join us for Anti-Bullying Week!💙
Show your support by hitting ‘like’ and ‘retweet’!
Together, we’re standing up for kindness, respect, and a future without bullying. Let’s make this message go far and wide!
#AntiBullyingWeek #ChooseRespect 💖
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Dr. Hilary Blumberg of #yalepsych and @YaleCSC was a recent guest on @thevoiceofct's Newsline with Brigitte Quinn to discuss local efforts to raise awareness about mental health and suicide prevention. tinyurl.com/46m66ubu
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Struggling with #bodyimage, #dieting, or #disorderedeating? Check out Dr. Tara Deliberto’s new course on @udemy 🙏🏻.
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If you’re aged between 12 & 18, @Bfoundation wants to hear from you in this year’s #BodyKind #Youth #Survey!
Share your #bodyimage experiences & win 1 of 20 gift vouchers. It's anonymous.
Help us to make a more BodyKind Australia⬇️
Take the survey here:
q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe…
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Applications are open for a one-yr gen clin psych postdoc w/ emphasis in #eatingdisorders @Stanford ! Please spread the word med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/… @aedweb
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So sad about the loss of Ross Crosby. Ross was the eating disorders field's go-to statistician & there was no one quite so generous and kind as him. So grateful for all the mentorship he provided not only to me but to truly SO many in our field. Ross you will be so dearly missed!
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Amazing opportunity! @kbalantekin
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Trending in #ClinicalPsychology:
ooir.org/index.php?field=Psy…
1) The Gender Gap in Partnered Orgasm
2) Parental & Child Binge Eating (@IntJEatDisord)
3) Effect of social learning on the nocebo effect (@healthpsychrev)
4) Hospital Admissions for Eating Disorders in Children, Spain
A privilege to work with @ProjectEAT_UMN!
Parents' binge eating during their child's adolescence was associated with children's extreme weight control behaviors in adolescence and binge eating in early adulthood. This is important for future research and for prevention!
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A recent study in @JAdolesHealth is the first to show the efficacy of virtual family-based treatment (FBT+) in boys and transgender/gender-expansive youth with #EatingDisorders. Check out our editorial ➡️ tinyurl.com/jaheditorial @UCSFChildrens @UCSFPediatrics @UCSF_EDP
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Very pleased to address this important question with my colleague @DrRyanMarek We discuss how to refine our research and clinical work to improve utility @ASMBS @ASMBSIH
Should Presurgical #Psychological Evaluations Still Be a Mandated Requirement for Metabolic and #BariatricSurgery? A Critique of the Literature and Thoughts on Future Directions - Surgery for #Obesity and Related Diseases
#soard24 soard.org/article/S1550-7289…
Our Teen POWER advisory board summarized this article (our weight bullying treatment study feasibility test) -- this is what they want teens to know! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
The study was done at @YaleMed
Thanks to @yalediscovers and @NIDDKgov for funding and supporting the work!
And thanks to @IntJEatDisord for publishing the results.
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A YSM team led by @jalydecker has created the first evidence-based therapy for young victims of #bullying. Researchers share promising #results in the latest @IntJEatDisord. #medtwitter brnw.ch/21wLLn7
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I'm excited to share that I'll be reviewing applications for @VCUClinPsy (through the BMed concentration) for Fall 2025 admission! My lab's website is under construction 🏗️🚧 but we, the Translational Research on Eating and Affect (TREAT) Lab, focus on:
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A new #yalepsych and @YaleMed study in International Journal of Eating Disorders tests the feasibility and acceptability of a treatment for weight bullying. @jalydecker and Dr. Carlos Grilo are first and senior authors, respectively. tinyurl.com/mveajecw
