Sharleen Woods
@systemicdietitian.bsky.social
Principal Dietitian in Eating disorders. Early researcher - NIHR ARC pre-application support award. Passionate about neuro-affirming care.
Listening to lived experience is not a box-ticking exercise.
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July 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Listening to lived experience is not a box-ticking exercise.
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Blog: My Top 5 Neurodivergent-Informed Strategies
1. Be Kind
2. Be Curious
3. Be Open
4. Be Radically Inclusive
5. Be Neurodiversity-Affirming
autisticrealms.com/top-5-neurod...
1. Be Kind
2. Be Curious
3. Be Open
4. Be Radically Inclusive
5. Be Neurodiversity-Affirming
autisticrealms.com/top-5-neurod...
Top 5 Neurodivergent-Informed Strategies
It is essential to have inclusive, accessible communication to meet unique needs and interests. Communication is key to helping people feel empowered to make decisions and have agency and autonomy in ...
autisticrealms.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Blog: My Top 5 Neurodivergent-Informed Strategies
1. Be Kind
2. Be Curious
3. Be Open
4. Be Radically Inclusive
5. Be Neurodiversity-Affirming
autisticrealms.com/top-5-neurod...
1. Be Kind
2. Be Curious
3. Be Open
4. Be Radically Inclusive
5. Be Neurodiversity-Affirming
autisticrealms.com/top-5-neurod...
Reposted by Sharleen Woods
EDAC is proud to host an exhibition of photographs, drawings and digital art on the experience and research priorities of autistic people with eating disorders . inspace.ed.ac.uk/youre-not-al.... 1st to 8th march (closed Sunday Tuesday and Thursday, free drop in 10-5 quiet hour on sat.
February 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
EDAC is proud to host an exhibition of photographs, drawings and digital art on the experience and research priorities of autistic people with eating disorders . inspace.ed.ac.uk/youre-not-al.... 1st to 8th march (closed Sunday Tuesday and Thursday, free drop in 10-5 quiet hour on sat.
Reposted by Sharleen Woods
34,793 emergency, very urgent or urgent referrals to child/adolescent mental health services crisis teams in England in six months.
Cuts in public services & real incomes; eating disorders take toll.
What kind of society hands mental health problems to children?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Cuts in public services & real incomes; eating disorders take toll.
What kind of society hands mental health problems to children?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Urgent referrals of children in mental health crisis in England rise 13% in year
Charity says NHS failure to help more young people sooner is a ‘shocking betrayal’
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM
34,793 emergency, very urgent or urgent referrals to child/adolescent mental health services crisis teams in England in six months.
Cuts in public services & real incomes; eating disorders take toll.
What kind of society hands mental health problems to children?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Cuts in public services & real incomes; eating disorders take toll.
What kind of society hands mental health problems to children?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Reposted by Sharleen Woods
Important paper from Sarah Fuller, @dashanicholls.bsky.social and colleagues exploring the impact of the use of security staff in NGT feeding under restraint 👇
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‘We are not trained to do clinical work’: security staff providing physical restraint for NGT feeding in English paediatric wards—a qualitative multi-informant study
Objective To gain insights into the experience, and impact, of using security staff to facilitate physical restraints for nasogastric tube feeding.
Design A cross-sectional design using 39 individual...
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December 21, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Important paper from Sarah Fuller, @dashanicholls.bsky.social and colleagues exploring the impact of the use of security staff in NGT feeding under restraint 👇
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...
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"We really need to help each person discover the way their body feels when it needs food, when it needs hydration, et cetera, instead of teaching 'hunger is when your stomach is growling,' because that’s not the case for every single person." By Kelly Mahler:
www.kelly-mahler.com/resources/bl...
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An Affirming Approach to Supporting Interoception, Feeding Challenges & ARFID
Follow along this month as we talk about the links between interoception, feeding challenges, and ARFID, and how we can implement affirming supports.
www.kelly-mahler.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:43 AM
"We really need to help each person discover the way their body feels when it needs food, when it needs hydration, et cetera, instead of teaching 'hunger is when your stomach is growling,' because that’s not the case for every single person." By Kelly Mahler:
www.kelly-mahler.com/resources/bl...
www.kelly-mahler.com/resources/bl...
Reposted by Sharleen Woods
The findings of this scoping exercise support the view that dietitians are under-represented in CEDS-CYP and that staffing is not proportional to caseload in most CEDS...
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Scoping survey of dietetic resourcing for eating disorders: why is the dietitian’s role marginalised in community eating disorders?
Eating disorders (EDs) like anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) are conditions characterised by severe and persistent disruptions in eating behaviours. Nutritional rehabilitation is the mai...
gpsych.bmj.com
December 13, 2024 at 2:40 PM
The findings of this scoping exercise support the view that dietitians are under-represented in CEDS-CYP and that staffing is not proportional to caseload in most CEDS...
gpsych.bmj.com/content/37/6...
gpsych.bmj.com/content/37/6...