RESOURCES
Online resources for parents
http://www.maudsleyparents.org/
A website created by parents who helped their child recover from an eating disorder using family-based treatment. Excellent compliation of information, videos, helpful instruction, and encouragement
Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T.), an international organization created by parents to provide information and support to other parents and caregivers helping loved ones recover from eating disorders
http://www.aroundthedinnertable.org/
F.E.A.S.T. forum for parents of eating disordered children
http://www.eatingwithyouranorexic.com/
The website of Laura Collins, author of Eating With Your Anorexic and parent who used family-based treatment with her daughter
Recommended books for parents
Help Your Teenager Beat An Eating Disorder
James Lock, MD, PhD & Daniel Le Grange, PhD
Feeding Your Anorexic Adolescent
Claire P. Norton
Brave Girl Eating
Harriet Brown
Eating With Your Anorexic: How My Child Recovered Through Family-Based Treatment and Yours Can Too
Laura Collins
My Kid is Back: Empowering Parents to Beat Anorexia Nervosa
June Alexander & Daniel Le Grange
Skills-Based Learning for Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Method
Janet Treasure, Grainne Smith, and Anna Crane
UCSD Intensive Family-Based Treatment Program
Many families cannot find eating disorder experts locally. The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine offers a 5-day intensive family-based treatment program for adolescents and their families. Approximately 30 hours of treatment include medical examination, psychiatric evaluation, Maudsley based family therapy, systemic family therapy, contracting, psychoeducation, parent coaching, individual psychotherapy, and cognitive behavioral therapies. Families from all over the country attend this program.
While not sufficent to alone address the life-threatening challenges of eating disorders, the program can provide familes a jump-start to their overall treatment plan.
http://eatingdisorders.ucsd.edu/patient/ift.shtml
http://maudsleyparents.org/ucsd.html