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| View Larger Image | The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders: Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating, and Positive Body Image at Home
by Marcia Herrin, Nancy Matsumoto
| | List Price: | $18.95 | | Price: | $14.21 | | You Save: | $4.74 (25%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 135790 | | Studio: | Gurze Books | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 384 | | Publication Date: | July 28, 2007 | | Publisher: | Gurze Books |
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Product Description
The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders shows that effective solutions begin at home and cost little more than a healthy investment of time, effort, and love. Based on exciting new research, it differs from similar books in several key ways. Instead of concentrating on the grim, expensive hospital stays of patients with severe disorders, the authors focus on the family, teaching parents how to examine and understand their family’s approach to food and body-image issues and its effect their child’s behavior. Parents learn to identify an eating disorder early, to establish healthy attitudes toward food at a young age, and to intervene in a nonthreatening, nonjudgmental way. The authors concentrate on teens, the age group most often affected by eating disorders, as well as younger children. Individual chapters cover boys at risk, relapse training, dealing with friends, school, and summer camp, and much more. The book includes an appendix and sections on further reading, organizations and websites, residential and hospital programs, and references. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 8 reviews)
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Wonderful, common-sense advice! 
Eating disorders seem to be epidemic, especially among young women, and this book offers sensible advice to those struggling with body image and those who love them. It questions some of our dangerous cultural assumptions, acting as an antidote to the toxic beliefs that are poisoning us. Every parent concerned about a child's eating habits should read this book! Based on years of clinical experience, Ms. Herrin's analysis is profoundly simple and applicable to the world in which we really live. I wish I had read it sooner!
August 18, 2008 | |
Not recommended 
If you're a parent looking for information on family-based treatment (also known as the Maudsley approach), don't buy this book. Herrin has taken some of the principles of Maudsley and adapted them in ways that are contrary to both the letter and spirit of true Maudsley treatment. Much of the advice dispensed here is the same old conventional "wisdom" on treating eating disorders.
Herrin's "adaptations" of the Maudsley approach are often way off the mark. For true Maudsley information, read Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder by Daniel le Grange and James Lock.
--Harriet Brown
Co-chair, Maudsley Parents
www.maudsleyparents.org
August 18, 2008 | |
Pass this one by
As far as I can tell, there's nothing wrong with the author's advice on nutrition. Dietetics is her field and I'm willing to accept her expertise there. But most parents are able to feed their recovering child with general guidance from their family-based treatment specialist and a pediatric or adolescent medicine specialist with ED experience. Interestingly, although the authors cite research on family-based treatment, she neglects to mention that those studies did not include nutritionists or dieticians--they were not part of the treatment. If Herrin called her program "Dietician-Centered Weight Restoration" it would more accurately reflect the intervention she describes, with expert information handed down to parents who are meant to act as enforcers.
When we were helping my daughter recover our treatment providers didn't give us a meal plan but rather helped us think of the eating disorder in a different light (as something separate from our daughter, not an expression of her will), they helped us work together to get the job done, they kept us focused and helped us to stay strong and not give up. It was a very difficult period for my daughter but we stayed as positive as we could. Throughout, we emphasized our love and respect for our ill daughter, as did our providers. This set the stage for later treatment when we talked about independence and getting back to normal teenage life. The book gives little attention to these important later aspects, perhaps because they aren't dietary in nature and fall outside the author's area. I was puzzled by the author's suggestion for "concurrent therapy." FBT isn't a rejection of therapy--it's a TYPE of therapy, and weight restoration is just the start. This point seems to have been missed by the authors.
Perhaps I took this too personally, but the presentation of parents using FBT was very much at odds with my experience. The authors write, "Under no circumstance is it acceptable to let their anger boil over into physical aggression." WELL, OF COURSE NOT! At it's heart FBT is a compassionate treatment for anorexia that rests on a foundation of family love and respect. To present parents as stopping just short of violence gives an entirely wrong picture of what it's about.
August 15, 2008 | |
A valuable resource for parents
This is a comprehensive and well-written book that will help parents navigate a vast amount of complex information about eating disorders. It clearly explains the various eating disorders and provides concrete information about treatment, about supporting children at home and in treatment, and about how to foster a positive body image at home.
April 25, 2008 | |
Great resource for Maudsley parents
The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders contains an excellent section devoted to PAMS, or Parent-Assisted Meals and Snacks. I cant tell you how valuable and necessary this information is for a parent implementing the Maudsley approach to an eating disordered child. The author discuss the importance of monitoring and "forcing" your child to eat, what you should serve, how to deal with food fears, and what to expect. Nothing is sugar-coated, there is actually an example "Jessie's Story", in the middle of the chapter that provides support and encouragement. They stress the importance of being as loving as possible and give real advice on outlasting the child's resistance and not giving up. This process, sitting with a child, arguing over calories and trying to get them to just eat, can be so frustrating,and the authors help parents provide a united front and find the courage and strength within themselves to bring an end to their kid's ED. Any parent thinking of using the Maudsley method would find this book an invaluable resource
March 07, 2008 | |
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