Our understanding of eating disorders has improved markedly over the past 10 years since the publication of the previous edition of this volume. Early intervention is the key, as body dissatisfaction, obsession with thinness, and restrained and binge eating can be found in those as young as ten. Exploring prevention methods and therapeutic options,

Your daughter, mother, or someone in your care may have an eating disorder. Would you know? Whether you work in health care, counseling, education, athletics, or you are a concerned family member, you will find that Eating Disorders in Women and Children: Prevention, Stress Management, and Treatment develops a broader understanding of eatin

This project focuses on the impact of many types of eating disorders that manifest on the ideal body image for women. Thereafter the project examines the impact of body image and body dissatisfaction among young women and children. Definition and diagnosis of body disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and body dysmorphic will be the key components of this project. The impact on women's body image after birth is the main concern of this topic. Some questions that will be addressed are: "How do women get to their ideal weight after birth without taking the wrong turn in dieting"? "How does body dissatisfaction affect child nurturing with all the struggles a new mother has come across"? There are many obstacles that can harm not only a relationship, but can pass on to the child of the mother who suffers from these disorders during the developmental process.

Bringing together leading authorities, this comprehensive volume integrates the best current knowledge and treatment approaches for eating disorders in children and adolescents. The book reveals how anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other disorders present differently developmentally and explains their potentially far-reaching impact on psychological, physical, and neurobiological development. It provides guidelines for developmentally sound assessment and diagnosis, with attention to assessment challenges unique to this population. Detailed descriptions of evidence-based therapies are illustrated with vivid case examples. Promising directions in prevention are also addressed. A special chapter offers a parent's perspective on family treatment.

Our understanding of eating disorders has improved markedly over the past 10 years since the publication of the previous edition of this volume. Early intervention is the key, as body dissatisfaction, obsession with thinness, and restrained and binge eating can be found in those as young as ten. Exploring prevention methods and therapeutic options, the second edition of Eating Disorders in Women and Children: Prevention, Stress Management, and Treatment is updated with new research on these devastating maladies. Highlights in the second edition include: An emphasis on the physiology of eating disorders and genetic factors related to anorexia and bulimia Theories on prevention and the identification of at-risk individuals The latest information on therapeutic modalities, including cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, constructionist, and narrative approaches as well as pharmaceutical management Nutritional evaluation and treatment Specific exercise recommendations for women and children with eating disorders An accompanying CD-ROM containing a PowerPoint® presentation for each chapter With contributions from acclaimed clinicians widely known for their work with the eating disorder population, this volume recognizes the multifaceted nature of these disorders, addresses the widening demographic range of those afflicted, and delves into the issues behind their development. It provides practical recommendations for treatment from many perspectives, presenting enormous hope for people who painfully struggle with these disorders. In addition, it explores critical measures that can be taken to help the larger population understand and work to prevent eating disorders in their communities.

This book takes up the challenge of examining women’s understandings of eating disorders and child sexual abuse away from a framework focused on pathology. The central argument is that women’s distress is an enactment of their engagement with certain discourses and practices, rather than a reaction triggered by child sexual abuse. Guided by a contemporary feminist framework and Mikhail Bakhtin’s sociological linguistics, to substantiate the argument, women’s own poetry and drawings are used as evidence to develop, support and supplement research findings. The book establishes that an eating disorder is ‘an understandable response’ to sexual trauma and shifts the focus away from ‘a damaged personality’. Even more importantly, it demonstrates that women with eating disorders are using their bodies as a form of resistance to express silenced traumas that remain in the silenced female body. This is an active way of making sense of experiences of child sexual abuse.

Get a quick, expert overview of best practices for diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders in children and adolescents. This concise resource by Drs. Johannes Hebebrand and Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann provides psychiatrists and pediatricians with current information in this increasingly important field, including practical sections on developmental aspects of eating disorders, symptomology, epidemiology, etiology and pathyphysiology, treatment and outcomes, and prevention. - Discusses general concepts for feeding, eating, and weight disorders; body weight and composition, appetite regulation, and the emergence of body perception and image. - Covers genetics of eating and weight disorders, influence of hormones, intergenerational effects, and food addiction. - Includes information on cognitive behavioral therapy, family-based therapies, early intervention, pharmacotherapy, bariatric surgery, and other treatments. - Consolidates today's available information on this timely topic into a single convenient resource.

This is an amazing healing workbook to help children who have a loved one working towards Eating Disorder Recovery! Emily's Guide is a workbook for boys and girls ages 5-11. This workbook is created by Sherri Hicks, LMSW who has treated Eating Disorder patients at a nationally ranked Eating Disorder Treatment Center in Arizona and Stacey Lyddon who has served as a Peer Support Specialist and Artist. When a loved one has an Eating Disorder it effects the entire family and often young children have thoughts and emotions that need to be expressed. Emily's Guide encourages self-expression for children who witness confusing Eating Disorder behaviors. Being honest and answering a child's questions about Eating Disorders is extremely important to helping them to be resilient against their own Eating Disorder. The artwork is simple yet impactful when talking about something as abstract as "ED" (Eating Disorders) for children and lets them express themselves through art and writing. This book is positive and uplifting helping to build self-esteem and understanding that recovery is difficult but possible. Editorial Reviews: In praise of: Emily's Guide to Eating Disorders Eating Disorders continue to be among the most misunderstood diseases on earth. All too often fatal, these disorders rob men, women and children of their health, their dignity and their purpose. Eating Disorders also have a sinister impact on families, leaving parents, siblings, children and others in a quandary as to how to best support a suffering loved one. In this book, Sherri Hicks and Stacey Lyddon use their vast clinical and artistic skills to bring a story of love, care and concern for someone caught in the throes of an Eating Disorder to children in ways that make understanding something as truly awful as Anorexia to Bulimia possible. If you know a child (of any age) who is facing this dilemma, Emily's Guide to Eating Disorders is a must read. Jerry L. Law, D. Min., MDAAC, CIP is a veteran of 25 years in the corporate world, and his strong leadership and organizational skills lend themselves naturally to the intervention process. Dr. Law is a Board Certified Professional Christian Counselor, a Board Certified Intervention Professional and a Master Certified Drug Alcohol and Addictions Counselor. Jerry brings compassion and a first-hand understanding about how critical it is to break the cycle of addiction in the professional world as well as within the family. In the upheaval that follows an eating disorder diagnosis, young children and siblings are the walking wounded, unsure where to turn with their questions and emotions. With simple explanations and space for words and drawings, Emily's Guide to Eating Disorders offers a safe place for a child to express the experience of living with a loved one with an eating disorder. Highly recommend. - Jessica Setnick, MS, RD, CEDRD Eating Disorder Expert and Author of The Eating Disorders Clinical Pocket Guide

This groundbreaking volume presents a new conceptual approach to treating adults with eating disorders and their children. By utilizing Parent-Based Prevention, a state-of-the-art intervention program from Stanford University for families who risk raising children in the context of parental eating disorders, Parents with Eating Disorders offers a practical, evidence-based manual to working with affected families with the goal of preventing disordered eating from being passed to future generations. Additional resources include intervention planning and self-assessment forms intended for clinicians to use as they implement the program.