When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder

Practical Strategies to Help Your Teen Recover from Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating

By: Lauren Muhlheim PsyD, Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh - Foreword

Narrated by: Emily Ellet

When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder will empower you to help your teen using a unique, family-based treatment (FBT) approach. With this guide, you'll learn to respectfully and lovingly oversee your teen's nutritional rehabilitation, which includes helping to normalize eating behaviors, managing meals, expanding food flexibility, teaching independent and intuitive eating habits, and using coping strategies and recovery skills to prevent relapse.

In addition to helping parents and caregivers, this book is a wonderful resource for mental health professionals, teachers, counselors, and coaches who work with parents of and teens with eating disorders. It clearly outlines the principles of FBT and the process of involving parents collaboratively in treatment.

As a parent, feeding your child is a fundamental act of love - it has been from the start! However, when a child is affected by an eating disorder, parents often lose confidence in performing this basic task. This compassionate guide will help you gain the confidence needed to nurture your teen and help them heal.

©2018 Lauren Muhlheim (P)2020 Tantor

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I wish I had this book sooner. So thankful. I highly recommend this book for any parent who is concerned their child may have a eating disorder.

Good book!

Thankful to have read this book! It was really helpful for me to read/listen to.

Life giving answers to a complex disorder.

My daughter is finishing up 3 months of inpatient and hospitalization rehab for anorexia and bulemia. I have been frantic on how to handle our life when she comes home from the treatment center. This book gave clear and concise answers and viewpoints from several different eating disorder possible situations that I may be faced with. I will refer back to different chapters for advice as different situations arise.
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A lot of useful information is provided for families. These tools are much needed to help families tide through this truly difficult journey.

Game changer for our approach as parents

Finally, a practical step by step guide for parents who have teens with eating disorders. There’s so much shame and guilt as a parent to think we caused the eating disorder - good news: we didn’t! No matter where your child is in the treatment cycle this is a must read handbook that has practical treatments that any parent can easily understand and implement. This family approach is one that has made our relationship stronger with our child. Tip to other parents: you did NOT cause your child’s eating disorder.