When Your Teen Has An Eating Disorder; Practical Strategies to Help Your Teen Recover from Anorexia, Bulimia & Binge Eating

✍ Scribed by Lauren Mulheim

• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 186
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder" will empower you to help your teen using a unique, family-based treatment (FBT) approach. With this guide, you'll learn to respectfully and lovingly oversee your teen's nutritional rehabilitation, which includes helping to normalize eating behaviors, managing meals, expanding food flexibility, teaching independent and intuitive eating habits, and using coping strategies and recovery skills to prevent relapse. In addition to helping parents and caregivers, this book is a wonderful resource for mental health professionals, teachers, counselors, and coaches who work with parents of and teens with eating disorders. It clearly outlines the principles of FBT and the process of involving parents collaboratively in treatment. As a parent, feeding your child is a fundamental act of love-it has been from the start! However, when a child is affected by an eating disorder, parents often lose confidence in performing this basic task. This compassionate guide will help you gain the confidence needed to nurture your teen and help them heal.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: What’s Happening to My Teen?
Chapter 2: Putting Parents in Charge
Chapter 3: Preparing to Take Charge of Recovery
Chapter 4: Strategies to Structure Recovery and Manage Behaviors
Chapter 5: Preparing to Implement Meals
Chapter 6: Mealtime Strategies
Chapter 7: Assessing Progress and Managing Common Challenges
Chapter 8: Exposure to Build Flexibility
Chapter 9: Handing Back Control and Working Toward Independence
Chapter 10: Recovery and Relapse Prevention
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
References