Utilizing a nutritional approach to treatment, a practical handbook offers parents helpful and effective advice on how to deal with eating disorders in preteens and adolescents, explaining how to identify the warning signs of problems, normalize eating and exercise, know when to seek professional help, avoid a relapse, and help youngsters cope with potential triggers. Original. 20,000 first printing.
Psychologist Marsha H. Levy-Warren has perceptively described the changes that occur in early adolescence: children become hyperaware of how their body is becoming bigger and more adult-like, and they gain the ability to see themselves, ...
This book will be welcomed by anyone who is concerned about the eating habits of their children and will be invaluable to professionals working with those suffering from eating disorders.
Klump, K., Bulik, C., Kaye, W., Treasure, J. and Tyson, E. (2009) “Academy of eating disorders position paper: Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses.” International Journal of Eating Disorders 42, 2,97–103.
Featuring metaphorical explanations for parents and caregivers about eating disorders and their treatments, a conceptual guide explains how to facilitate a supportive relationship with sufferers at every stage toward health. Original.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders in Young People is a state-of-the-art guide for parents based on enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E), one of the most effective treatments for eating disorders and recently adapted ...
This book, written by the experts at the Yale University Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, offers you concrete strategies you can use at home to facilitate and support your child's recovery from an eating disorder.
Work together toward recovery "When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder provides parents with hope as well as direction to aid their eating disordered child." —Vivian Hanson Meehan, president and founder, National Association of Anorexia ...
First, the book shows parents how to identify an eating disorder and when to become concerned about it.
Pier Bryden and Peter Szatmari, top child and adolescent psychiatrists, are here to help.
Unlike complicated “exchange” systems, this is simple: Crosbie and Sterling coach you through every aspect of meeting your child’s nutritional needs, using just one tool—a ten-inch plate.