The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders: Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating, and Positive Body Image at Home
Here is the first book written by a nutritionist that addresses childhood and teenage eating disorders with an emphasis on home-based recovery. The authors focus on early detection and intervention with effective solutions that begin in the home, at virtually no cost other than a healthy investment of time, effort, and love.\ Unique to this second edition are four chapters devoted to the Maudsley approach, the highly-successful parent-assisted method for normalizing eating. Included is the...
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The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders shows that effective solutions begin at home and cost little more than a healthy investment of time, effort, and love. Based on exciting new research, it differs from similar books in several key ways. Instead of concentrating on the grim, expensive hospital stays of patients with severe disorders, the authors focus on the family, teaching parents how to examine and understand their family’s approach to food and body-image issues and its effect their child’s behavior. Parents learn to identify an eating disorder early, to establish healthy attitudes toward food at a young age, and to intervene in a nonthreatening, nonjudgmental way. The authors concentrate on teens, the age group most often affected by eating disorders, as well as younger children. Individual chapters cover boys at risk, relapse training, dealing with friends, school, and summer camp, and much more. The book includes an appendix and sections on further reading, organizations and websites, residential and hospital programs, and references.
Foreword viiAcknowledgments xiIntroduction xiiiMarcia's Story xixIdentifying an Eating DisorderAt Risk: Recognizing an Eating Disorder and Spotting Early Warning Signs 29Bad Habit or Dangerous Behavior? When to Worry About Disordered Eating 50Prevention: The Power of the Preemptive Strike 66The Family on the Front Lines 84Boys at Risk 99Medical Consequences of Eating Disorders 111Taking ActionBreaking the Ice: How to Open the Discussion 143Avoiding Parent Traps: How Improving Your Relationship to Food and Your Body Can Help Your Child 162Beyond the Family Circle: Friends, School, and Summer Camp 179Using Maudsley MethodsThe Maudsley Approach: Treating Anorexia Nervosa 199Parent-Assisted Meals and Snacks (PAMS): A Nutrition-Oriented Interpretation of the Maudsley Approach to Anorexia 206Using PAMS and the Maudsley Approach to Treat Bulimia and Binge-Eating Disorder 221A Mother's Account: How PAMS Tipped the Balance in My Daughter's Fight Against Anorexia 232Healthy Eating GuideNormalizing Eating with a Food Plan 239Getting the Most Out of the Food Plan 265Normalizing Exercise 296Managing Relapse 318When You've Done All You Can: Professional Resources and How to Use Them 334In Closing 361Bibliography 367Index 375
