Disturbances in body perception are a consistent feature of Restrictive Eating Disorders (REDs). In adult patients diagnosed with REDs, body dissatisfaction and overestimation of body weight have been associated with altered tactile acuity and biases in proprioceptive localization. Whether similar alterations are present in adolescents-when the disorder often emerges-remains unclear. This study aimed to characterize possible alterations in tactile and body perception in adolescents diagnosed with REDs. Patients (N = 48) and age-matched healthy controls (HCs, N = 45) completed tasks measuring tactile acuity and body landmark localization accuracy on the hand and abdomen. Body dissatisfaction was also measured with clinical questionnaires. The REDs group showed greater bias in abdomen perception, whereas hand perception was similar to that of HCs. No differences in tactile processing emerged between REDs and HCs. The relations between perceptual biases, tactile acuity, and self-reported body dissatisfaction were not statistically significant. Our results suggest that biases in body perception in REDs are present in adolescence, but limited to specific body parts, such as the abdomen.

When young children come to the attention of helping professionals because they are experiencing significant behavioral or emotional challenges, effective solutions frequently involve establishing whether there are strains or ruptures in the child’s coparenting network impeding functional communication about the child. Coparenting refers to the shared—and ideally, mutual—parenting efforts of adults working together to socialize, care for, and raise children for whom they share responsibility. Among the most important aims in understanding and strengthening the family’s coparenting alliance is evaluating who the various adults are comprising the functional coparenting network. As part of a coordinated effort to provide guidance in best practices for evaluating coparenting, an International Coparenting Collaborative (ICC) has highlighted the use of a pictoral mapping tool—a child-centered ecomap—as one effective means of assessing coparental engagement and learning more about existing levels of child-related teamwork and conflict. Completed ecomaps provided by multiple coparenting adults in the same family also provide an opening to highlight and explore child focus and to facilitate pivotal information sharing among the multiple caregivers. In this article, we examine the use of child-centered ecomaps in a variety of family-centered cases seen in four different collaborating sites and services partnering in the ICC. The cases highlight the unique value of an assessment tool that goes beyond simply illuminating the nature of the child’s coparenting system to afford the interventionist with a means of refocusing coparents’ attention on the perspective of the child. Closing reflections focus on the child-centered ecomap’s advantages, both as a method for learning more about coparenting in the family and for setting a stage for subsequent child-centered work with the family through more comprehensive and nuanced case conceptualization.