Family-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders Piece by Piece
A Practical Guide for Parents
- 170 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Family-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders Piece by Piece
A Practical Guide for Parents
About this book
The book illustrates how parents who are participating in family-based treatment (FBT) for their child's eating disorder (ED) may enhance their chances of achieving optimal outcomes for their child by more successfully navigating the challenges that often impede progress in treatment and recovery.
The stance of the book is transdiagnostic, so that the information provided spans all ED diagnoses including anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), and atypical ED presentations as well as conditions that fall outside current diagnostic criteria. This book aims to help parents identify how they can make the most out of FBT therapy no matter which ED symptoms their child experiences. Case vignettes across the diagnostic and clinical spectrum are used liberally throughout the book, not only to illustrate examples of some of the specific challenges families face, but to help parents normalize the emotions they may feel around their experience of trying to help their child and around their experience of participating in the FBT intervention itself.
A respectful and supportive tone makes this resource accessible and jargon-free for parents, and provides useful information and approaches for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and allied health practitioners who deliver FBT to young people and families.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The First Challenge: Taking immediate and decisive action
- 2 The Madness of Causes: Losing focus by trying to figure out why the eating disorder developed
- 3 Working Together: When we are in a lifeboat, we all need to row together
- 4 Big Feelings: How too much worry about a child’s emotions can undermine success
- 5 Stop Blaming Your Child or Yourself: You’re fighting an eating disorder, not your child or yourself
- 6 Do Not Try to Reason With an Eating Disorder: Why trying to reason with a child with eating-disordered thinking doesn’t work
- 7 Deferring to Experts Is Not the Answer: How expecting other professionals to solve the problem can interfere with progress in FBT
- 8 Why Is This So Hard?: How patience and persistence are the keys to success in FBT
- 9 Does Everything Have to Stop?: Balancing academic progress, athletics, or activities, and ED recovery
- 10 Don’t Give Up Too Soon: Why it is important to accomplish the goals of FBT to reduce the likelihood of relapse
- 11 Find Support: Why it is important for parents to seek support from professionals, families, friends, and organizations
- 12 Bringing It All together and Moving On
- Resources
- Index