The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders

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.