Here are some tips for using When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder: A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers in your professional practice.

1. Let this book shepherd you through your own internal journey into personal issues that could potentially lead to interference with the effective treatment process.
   
   
2. The book is a perfect resource to offer clients in their wish to better understand the full implications of these diseases on the individual and the family. It offers them, as well as you, skills, tools, resources, practical suggestions and guidance through a complex and difficult process of healing.
   
   
3. The book is a clear reminder to clients who have already been engaged in the treatment process just how complex the recovery process can be. Referral to Chapter Six: Recovery has invariably been a boon to clients who begin to question or lose confidence in themselves in light of the length and breadth of the recovery challenge. The book, opened to any page, inspires readers with optimism, hope and confidence in themselves and the healing process.
   
   
4. The more than 50 written exercises and activities in the workbook are perfect tools for therapists to assign their clients as “homework” between sessions, stimulating self-awareness, self-care and personal insights.
   
   
5. Group practitioners have used sections of the book as jumping off points for discussion in therapy groups.
   
   
6. Family therapists have used sections of the workbook to stimulate dialogue and teach communicate skills to parents and family members.