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When is specialist referral necessary?
  • For a second opinion or specialist assessment when the clinical picture is uncertain
  • Self-help or first-line treatments seem to be failing
  • Disturbed eating behaviour is entrenched and out of control
  • Continuing weight loss and dehydration despite treatment
  • Concurrent psychiatric disturbance, such as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder or severe personality disorder
  • Severe family dysfunction or distress

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