When Your Child Has An Eating Disorder: A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers (Jossey Bass Publishers) is a narrow title for an expansive book and comprehensive study of eating disorders, their prevention, treatment and cure. Though the title implies that its message is for parents only, this book speaks in a direct and informative way to health professionals and patients.

Here’s how this book can be useful to you:

• It provides strategies, therapeutic tools, and a deeper understanding of the unique requirements of eating disorder treatment, as well as the professional’s unique use of self in addressing these diseases.
  
  
• It provides a context through which you can maintain clarity and direction in your work with eating disordered patients.
  
  
• It clarifies for your patients what the therapy process is about and what they can expect from it, optimizing chances for a successful treatment.
  
  
• It helps patients realistically anticipate the nature of the recovery process, stacking the cards in favor of the patient’s commitment to the treatment process.
  
  
• The upwards of 50 exercises, activities and self-assessment quizzes provide professionals varied and substantive hands-on materials to use with patients for self-discovery and to facilitate the therapeutic process. By stimulating internal awareness and insights, and by facilitating communications between family members and with the practitioner, these provide invaluable “grist for the therapy mill.”
  
  
• It provides therapists direction in structuring the therapy session, from the first session on, offering specific examples from case studies and usefuloptions about what to say, when, and how to say it.
  
  
• It provides professionals a blueprint for approaching insurance companies to insure maximal coverage for eating disorder treatment.
  
  
• By reinforcing and augmenting what you already know and what you are doing right, this book provides an invaluable source of reassurance and confidence building.
  

When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder is also unique in explaining the benefits and necessity of a multi-disciplinary team approach to treatment, be it outpatient or inpatient. Health professionals come to appreciate the benefit of working together in collaborative teams with other professionals…teams which include the parents and families of their child patients. The book specifically addresses the roles of the nutritionist and the medical doctor, the individual therapist and family therapist, and psychopharmacologist as part of the eating disorder treatment team.

Group therapists have described the exercises in this book as rich “jumping off points” to stimulate group discussion and the therapeutic process. Some have organized support groups based on concepts presented in this book.


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