The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders: Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating, and Positive Body Image at Home

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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.
Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780936077031

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Publication Date: 04-28-2007

Pages: 324

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marcia Herrin is the founder of the Dartmouth College Eating Disorders Prevention, Education and Treatment Program, one of the most respected programs of its kind in the nation. She is also the author of the professional text, "Nutritional Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders (Brunner-Routledge, 2003). Currently, she runs a busy private practice specializing in children and adults with weight issues and eating disorders. Dr. Herrin received her Master's in public health from the Universityof California at Berkeley, and her doctorate in nutrition education from Columbia University. A sought-after expert on children with eating problems, Dr. Herrin was featured in a People magazine cover story on eating disorders on college campuses (which was reported by Nancy Matsumoto), has appeared on The Today Show and 48 Hours, and has been quoted in The New York Times, Shape Magazine, and other print media. She has also served as a consultant to a wide variety of public and private universities and school systems. Nancy Matsumoto is a former staff correspondent for People magazine and a freelance writer. She writes human-interest news, entertainment, and medical articles, including numerous stories on health, eating disorders, and body image. She has also been a contributor to Time, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, among other publications.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents


Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Marcia's Story xix
Identifying an Eating Disorder
At Risk: Recognizing an Eating Disorder and Spotting Early Warning Signs 29
Bad Habit or Dangerous Behavior? When to Worry About Disordered Eating 50
Prevention: The Power of the Preemptive Strike 66
The Family on the Front Lines 84
Boys at Risk 99
Medical Consequences of Eating Disorders 111
Taking Action
Breaking the Ice: How to Open the Discussion 143
Avoiding Parent Traps: How Improving Your Relationship to Food and Your Body Can Help Your Child 162
Beyond the Family Circle: Friends, School, and Summer Camp 179
Using Maudsley Methods
The Maudsley Approach: Treating Anorexia Nervosa 199
Parent-Assisted Meals and Snacks (PAMS): A Nutrition-Oriented Interpretation of the Maudsley Approach to Anorexia 206
Using PAMS and the Maudsley Approach to Treat Bulimia and Binge-Eating Disorder 221
A Mother's Account: How PAMS Tipped the Balance in My Daughter's Fight Against Anorexia 232
Healthy Eating Guide
Normalizing Eating with a Food Plan 239
Getting the Most Out of the Food Plan 265
Normalizing Exercise 296
Managing Relapse 318
When You've Done All You Can: Professional Resources and How to Use Them 334
In Closing 361
Bibliography 367
Index 375

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