Treatment and innovation: Description and evaluation of new programs currently available for your patients - Immersion programs for treating pediatric obesity: Follow-up evaluations of Wellspring Camps and Academy of the Sierras, a boarding school for overweight teenagers

Obesity Management

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 261-266

  Kirschenbaum, Daniel S ^a   Craig, Ryan D ^b   Pecora Kelly, Kristina ^b   Germann, Julie N ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Healthy Living Academies' Division of CRC Health

^c La Rabida Children's Hospital

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BODY MASS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISCIPLINES RELATING TO BIOMEDICINE; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SELF MONITORING; SELF REPORT; WEIGHT CONTROL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 38049065632     PISSN: 15451712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/obe.2007.0115     Document Type: Review

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