Articles for Professionals
The Health Professional’s Unique
Use
of Self in Treating an Eating
Disorder
Pediatric/Medical Guidelines for
Treating the Eating
Disordered Child
How Eating Disorders Heal
Therapists roles
and tasks, excerpts from
"When Your Child
Has an Eating Disorder"
Natenshon
/ Jossey Bass Publisher
"Take away tasks" for
Binge Eating
or Night Eating Syndrome
"How I Practice."
Reprinted from Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention
My psychotherapy practice has been
filled with eating disordered patients who have met with recovery failure in
previous treatment attempts. Their stories all seemed disturbingly similar....
Parents and families had been denied access to the child's treatment by their
child's clinicians. After months or even years of treatment, parents were at a
loss to understand what eating disorders are and what they imply about their
child's needs, concerns, and emotional resiliency.
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What psychotherapists, medical doctors, nutritionists and other health
professionals need to know…
If you are not an eating disorder
“specialist,” you have probably felt unprepared to treat “hard core” eating
disorder cases and in some instances, perhaps have felt compelled to refer these
cases out of your own practice to other professionals who have more experience
than you do.
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The practitioner's role is pivotal
Whether or not you feel comfortable
taking on a case that involves treating an eating disorder, your
evaluation/assessment of the patient and/or early interaction with the eating
disordered child and family could provide the first, and perhaps the only,
opportunity for the individuals in that family to avail themselves of
professional care at a point where the disease could be easily ameliorated. Your
role is pivotal.
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PANDAS
/ OCD /
Anorexia
Link
Combining the Feldenkrais Method with Traditional Psychotherapy to Treat Eating Disorders
The work of Moshe Feldenkrais can be used advantageously to augment the more traditional approaches to treating patients with eating disorders and body image disturbances.
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Practitioners…. avoid these 9 common pitfalls
Read them all.
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Eight
Part Series:
Picky Eating and Early
Childhood Feeding Disorders.
Click Here.
Psychotherapist Abigail H. Natenshon
has specialized in the treatment of eating disorders with individuals, families,
and groups for the past 40 years. She is the author of When Your Child Has An
Eating Disorder, A Step-by-Step Workbook For Parents And Other Caregivers,
Doing What Works: An integrative system for the treatment of eating disorders
from diagnosis to recovery. Based on hundreds of successful outcomes, this
book shepherds concerned parents step-by-step through the processes of eating
disorder recognition, confronting the child, finding the most effective
treatment for patient and family, and evaluating and insuring a timely recovery.
A guide to eating disorder prevention, this book is useful to parents, health
professionals and school personnel alike in countering the pervasive epidemic of
unhealthy eating and body image concerns, and destructive media and peer
influences. Her work can be reviewed further at
www.empoweredparents.com and
www.empoweredkidZ.com.
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