ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study of Angela who was first referred to the clinic when she was twenty-five months old. When she attended the health centre for a routine developmental check-up, her mother complained that Angela was presenting increasing difficulties with her eating. The community paediatrician wrote: Angela has an eating problem. She survives on numerous snacks during the day and will only take a couple of mouthfuls of food at meal times. Mother says that she has tried various approaches to try and get Angela to eat at meal times. This problem started at around nine months of age and has not improved. Angela has managed to sustain good weight gain, remaining just above the fiftieth centile since the age of nine months. Curiously, exactly as two years earlier, Angela relaxed quite visibly and moved over to the other side of the table to play with the various toys.
