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How to Encourage a Partner Who Struggles With Poor Body Image

If your partner struggles with poor body image, you’re not alone. Body insecurity is remarkably common. By age 13, more than half of American girls are unhappy with their bodies. [...]
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Tips for Discussing Your Eating Disorder With Family Members

Friends working with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Knowing how to tell your family about your eating disorder can be daunting. Often you may be unsure of how they will react, or even how you will react or [...]
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Discussing my Eating Disorder With Extended Family as a Teen

Determining who to tell about your eating disorder is an important and challenging decision. To share your struggles is to be incredibly vulnerable. You need to surround yourself with people [...]
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How to Use ED Treatment as Launch to a Stronger Family

Stronger Family Smiling After family-based therapy

Contributor: Michelle Wells, The Meadows Ranch When my friend told me that her teenage daughter entered an intensive outpatient program for the treatment of anorexia, I hugged her, and then [...]
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Eating Disorder Treatment & Families in the Recovery Process

The role of family can be extremely helpful in the eating disorder treatment process. Looking at alternative models, such as the Maudsley Model, families can take an active lead in [...]
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Overview of Maudsley Model from the United Kingdom

The Maudsley Model, otherwise known as family-based treatment, is a therapeutic technique that involves the family in the refeeding and recovery process. This was developed in London by Dr. Daniel [...]
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Tweens with Eating Disorders: Warning Signs and Treatment Options

A 7-year-old states that she is vegetarian because she loves animals, and begins to eat a more restricted diet. A 10-year-old is concerned about starvation in the world and begins [...]
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Incorporating Family in Meal Support For Eating Disorder Treatment

Family working on a meal plan at breakfast

Contributor: Stephanie Ceranec, Med, LCPC, Eating Disorder Program Coordinator, Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center. When it comes to eating disorder recovery, learning how to normalize eating behaviors is essential to [...]
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Is Hospital Care for Children with Anorexia A Long Term Solution?

Effectiveness of Hospitalization Care for Children with AN: A Longer Term Solution, the goals of inpatient treatment is typically medical and nutritional stabilization. Research has shown that inpatient treatment is [...]
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Maudsley Model in Eating Disorder Treatment

Family discussing Treatment Methods for Anorexia

The Maudsley Model (or Family Based Therapy, for which it is more commonly referred to) is an evidence based, intensive outpatient refeeding treatment program where parents and/or caregivers play an [...]
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