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Virtual event Friday, August 22, 2025 • 8:30 am-4:00 pm ET
Available on-demand September 8-October 31, 2025
Tickets include virtual and on-demand access.
Now in its second year, the 2025 Feeding and Eating Psychology Summit will bring together a multidisciplinary panel of experts to explore the complex intersection of pediatric feeding disorder (PFD) and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) across the lifespan.
Feeding Matters launched this summit in 2024 in response to a critical and growing need: to bridge the gap between two historically siloed fields — feeding and eating disorders — and create a shared space for collaboration, clarity, and progress. As part of its long-standing mission to unite families and professionals in advancing pediatric feeding care, Feeding Matters recognized that confusion around the overlap between PFD and ARFID was hindering diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes. The summit serves as a catalyst for connection, education, and multidisciplinary consensus.
The 2025 Feeding and Eating Psychology Summit: PFD & ARFID Evidence-based Interventions for Key Developmental Stages explores psychological management strategies for PFD and ARFID across developmental stages. Experts will present evidence-based interventions or concepts tailored to key stages in a child’s development, highlighting how feeding skill development and cognitive maturity influence treatment planning. Through lived experience interviews and a facilitated Q&A, participants will gain deeper insight into how psychological approaches must adapt as feeding abilities and cognitive function evolves over time.
Eligible attendees can earn 6.5 hours of continuing education credit during the summit.
Please contact programs@feedingmatters.org with any inquiries.
*These sessions have been approved for the following IL EI credits ONLY:
*0830-0845 Introduction and Consensus PFD & ARFID Evidence-based Interventions for Key Developmental Stages- 0.25 INT
*0845-0910 Family Lived Experience-Lifespan-0.5 WWF
*0910-0955 Building the Foundation: A holistic, interdisciplinary approach to infant feeding- 0.75 INT
*0955-1025 Parent Feeding Behavior and Food Acceptance in Young Children With and Without ARFID, the Moderating Role of Sensory Perception-0.25 WWF, 0.25 INT
1025-1110 Food Allergy and ARFID: An underrecognized clinical complication and conceptual treatment framework-0.25 INT, 0.25 WWF
1110-1130 Micro Keynote-Infant and Toddler-0.25 INT
1200-1220 Micro Keynote-0.25 INT
1220-1250 Reduction in Feeding Problems Following a 12-Week Interdisciplinary Group Feeding Intervention-0.5 INT
1500-1525 Family Lived Experience-0.25 WWF
1525-1600 Closing-0.25 INT, 0.25 WWF
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