Clinical care for severe and persistent eating disorders in pediatric populations: Perspectives of health professionals.

Objective: Models of treatment for adults with severe and enduring eating disorders focus on harm reduction and improving quality of life. However, there is a notable gap in the pediatric literature in this area. The current study set out to assess the perspectives of health professionals regarding clinical care for young people (e.

Toward a person-centered ethics framework for autonomy in spinal cord injury research and rehabilitation.

In this paper, we explore how the concepts of autonomy and autonomous choice are understood in the context of spinal cord injury in the academic literature, both in reporting on research results and more broadly on outcomes and quality of life. We find inconsistent, framework-absent portrayals of autonomy as well as an absence of discourse that draws upon ethical constructs and theory. In response, we advance a person-centered framework for spinal cord injury research that combines both lived experience and a disability ethics approach to fill this gap.