Pediatric Feeding Challenges: More than Picky Eating

Release Date: September 14, 2021  ---  Expiration Date: September 13, 2024
Estimated Time to Complete: 1 hour

This intermediate lecture will cover factors contributing to the development of feeding challenges, how to differentiate picky eating from eating behaviors warranting intervention, medical and mechanical issues related to safety when eating, common treatment approaches, and the benefits of multidisciplinary treatment.

1. Recognize factors contributing to the development of feeding challenges.
2. Differentiate picky eating from eating behaviors warranting intervention.
3. Describe some medical and mechanical issues related to safety when eating.
4. List common treatment approaches and explain the benefits of multidisciplinary treatment.

Beaumont Employees and Providers: Free

Non-Beaumont providers: $25

Instructions for Completion

1. Register
2. Return to the module website (a direct link is provided in the registration confirmation email)
3. Click Begin Activity > Launch

Beaumont Health Employees and Affiliated Providers: Click AUTHENTICATE.  If you are already logged into a Beaumont computer using your Beaumont network login, you will automatically be logged into the video system.  If you are at home or another off-site location, you must enter your Beaumont network login (what you use to access Beaumont email, HealthStream, Epic).

Non-Beaumont (External) Providers: Enter your first name, last name, and email address where prompted.

Upon completion of the video, return to Begin Activity and click Attestation to complete a brief attestation. Once the attestation is completed, click Complete Evaluation to receive credit.

In support of improving patient care, Beaumont Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Medicine CME: Beaumont Health designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing CE: Beaumont Health designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 ANCC contact hour.  Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Psychology CE: Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibly for the content of the programs.

Social Work CE: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Beaumont Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Beaumont Health maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credit.