Eating Disorders: A Guide for Parents. Maintaining Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating, and a Positive Body Image

This book is written for parents and offers effective strategies for treating eating disorders at home. With this guide, parents will be able to explore the family's eating habits, learn to identify eating disorders at early stages, instill a healthy relationship with food in their child from an early age, form a positive body image, and avoid judgment and threats towards the child. The guide will also be useful for therapists working with clients who are on the difficult path of overcoming eating disorders.

This is the first book written by a dietitian aimed at overcoming eating disorders in children and adolescents with a focus on therapy at home. Early identification and monitoring of nutrition, plus effective solutions that begin, first and foremost, in the home environment, with a willingness to show love, patience, and dedicate time to their child — these are the components that, according to the authors, will aid effective treatment.

Unique to this — already second — edition is the description of the Maudsley approach, which is covered in four chapters of the book. This method of assisting with eating disorders is based on parental involvement in the child's treatment and normalizing their eating habits. The book also includes a touching story told by the mother of a girl who suffered from anorexia.

The child managed to overcome the illness thanks to the techniques of Dr. Herring. The updated sections of the book include fresh information about the families of those who are struggling with the illness, the consequences of the disease, and preventing relapses. Here, the reader will find advice for relatives, dietary plans, as well as information about those who are potentially at risk.