Broccoli Boot Camp: Basic Training for Parents of Selective Eaters

Help Your Picky Eaters Expand Their Food Choices!

Broccoli Boot Camp presents clearly written, commonsense behavioral interventions to successfully expand diet variety and preferences for healthy foods. It begins with the simple premise that when children are encouraged to taste and consume tiny portions of new foods (using the authors’ system), they learn to accept and enjoy them as part of their regular diets.

Other topics include:

• Difficult behaviors encountered at mealtime
• Nutritional deficiencies seen in selective eaters
• Food allergies
• And much more!

The second edition of Broccoli Boot Camp contains updated and revised content that addresses selective eating patterns across a wider range of children, including those diagnosed with issues such as avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder and pediatric feeding disorder.

There are two new chapters. Chapter 18 focuses specifically on fading or stopping a plan, and Chapter 21 is a guide for clinicians and professionals.

Using compelling, real-life case studies, Broccoli Boot Camp gives parents the tools they need to promote healthy eating for their child, as well as improving the family mealtime experience!

Dr. Keith Williams is a licensed psychologist and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). He has been the Director of the Feeding Program at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center for twenty years. Dr. Williams is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Penn State College of Medicine, where he teaches medical students, graduate students, and medical residents. He has written more than sixty book chapters and articles in the area of feeding problems and child nutrition. He is coauthor of Treating Eating Problems of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Disabilities: Interventions for Professionals and Parents.

Dr. Laura Seiverling is a licensed psychologist and Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). She worked for five years at St. Mary’s Hospital for Children’s Center for Pediatric Feeding Disorders in Bayside, New York, serving as both psychologist and clinical supervisor for the program. She now resides in South Carolina and holds an Assistant Teaching Professor position for Ball State University’s Applied Behavior Analysis graduate program. Dr. Seiverling has over ten years of experience providing treatment for feeding, as well as other behaviors in children. She has published more than thirty articles and book chapters in the areas of feeding problems, autism spectrum disorder, staff and parent training, and behavioral interventions.