| | |  | Work at Home | Home » » The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders: Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating, and Positive Body Image at Home | | | | | | | 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. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Marcia Herrin Ed.D. M.P.H. R.D. | | Paperback:
| 384 pages | | Publisher:
| Gurze Books | | Publication Date:
| July 28, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0936077034 | | Product Length:
| 8.98 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.23 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.91 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.35 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.45 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 15 reviews |
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8 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 No More Walking on Eggshells!Mar 02, 2008
By Jenni Schaefer
"Author of "Life Without Ed" and "Goodbye Ed, Hello Me""
When I was struggling with anorexia and bulimia, my family felt lost. They did not know what to do; they did not know what to say. They felt like they were walking on eggshells around me.
I wish that "The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders" had been around when I was battling my eating disorder. It would have benefited both my family and me immensely. This easy-to-read book not only gives hope but also provides real guidance for finding a full recovery.
As a recovered individual and a professional working in the eating disorder field today, I highly recommend "The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders" to all parents, patients, and professionals dealing with this illness. Unlike other books, the authors give a full spectrum view of eating disorder treatment, including the life-saving Maudsley approach.
With "The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders," there is no more walking on eggshells!
- Jenni Schaefer, author of Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too (McGraw-Hill)
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
PLEASE READ THIS REVIEWAug 17, 2011
By Sieteke
This book is a must for all parents with a child with an eating disorder. Only after understanding the disorder and the way it is influencing your child you are able to understand and help your child. In addition it gives insight in the disorder and relieves the stress you feel as parents. Please, don't hesitate and buy this book. It's so helpful for parents and inherently their child with the eating disorder !
6 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Informed and informative, "The Parent's Guide To Eating Disorders" is a very strongly recommended additionJan 07, 2008
By Midwest Book Review
Childhood and adolescent eating disorders are as complex as they are wide spread among the youth of today. Now parents have a practical, comprehensive, effective, and 'user friendly' instruction manual on how they can help their children to overcome (and even avoid) any category of eating disorder through a home-based recovery with "The Parent's Guide To Eating Disorders: Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating, & Positive Body Image At Home" by Marcia Herrin (Founder of the Dartmoth College Eating Disorder Prevention, Education and Treatment Programs) and writer/author Nancy Matsumoto. This newly updated and expanded second edition of "The Parent's Guide To Eating Disorders" includes four chapters devoted to the Maudsley approach, the highly successful, parent-assisted method for normalizing eating behavior. Of special note is the first-person account by the mother of one anorexic child who describes her daughter's recovery using the techniques developed by Dr. Herrin. Other sections of "The Parent's Guide To Eating Disorders" focus on family communications, the medical consequences of eating disorders, advice for siblings, relapse prevention, food plans, and boys who are at risk for an eating disorder. Informed and informative, "The Parent's Guide To Eating Disorders" is a very strongly recommended addition to family and community library Health & Medicine reference collections in general, and Eating Disorder supplemental reading lists in particular.
8 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Pass this one byAug 15, 2008
By Reader Mom
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.
2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
A valuable resource for parentsApr 25, 2008
By M. Levin
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.
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