Product Description

When Your Child has an Eating Disorder is the first hands-on workbook to help parents successfully intervene when they suspect their child has an eating disorder. This step-by-step guide is filled with self-tests, questions and answers, journaling and role playing exercises, and practical resources that give parents the insight they need to understand eating disorders and their treatment, recognize symptoms in their child, and work with their child toward recovery. This excellent and effective resource is one therapists can feel confident about recommending to patients.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79688 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 278 pages

Review
"...helps parents grow and nurture their children as they learn to face the pain of life again." -- Edye Berkun Kamensky, Ed.A., M.A. Fall 2000 Renfrew Center Foundation "Perspective"

"...teaches... parents to focus on the needs of the child rather than on guilt or blame." -- Naomi Goodman, Lilith Magazine, Summer 2000

"Abigail has a wholesomeness and gentle, intuitive expertise that renders her the perfect voice (regarding body image and eating disorders)." -- Sha at OxyMOM

"Before reading the above book, I had found no resource that had it all...Abigail has done an incredible job..." -- The mother of a child who died from bulimia

"Practical, informed, comprehensive, and highly readable. This is a book that will be equally valuable to parents, patients and clinicians." -- Craig Johnson, director, Eating Disorders Program, Laureate Psychiatric Hospital, Tulsa,

"This book provides parents with hope as well as direction to aid their eating disordered child." -- Vivian Meehan, National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders

“…written in a confident and approachable style, avoiding jargon, and the text is well broken up… a valuable book..” (www.edr.org.uk, 23 November 2004)

Review
"I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the spectrum of eating disorders. Parents, teachers, doctors, and therapists will find just what they need in Abigail Natenshon's comprehensive exploration of this most puzzling disorder." —Mary Ann Kirk, licensed clinical professional counselor

From the Author
Never before available to parents, When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder provides information based on the assumption that parents are NOT to blame for their child's eating disorder, but that they DO have a powerful role to play as mentors to their child's recovery. In my experience, I have found that for the most part, parents want to do what is best for their child; they deserve to be taught how by their child's treating professionals.

Children, throughout their childhood, teenage and young adult years continue to require the wise and informed input, support, and counsel of their parents, particularly in times of crisis or illness. Scientific research corroborates my clinical findings that family involvement in the treatment process is the most effective way to heal youngsters living at home where the processes of disease and recovery unfold on a daily basis in kitchens and bathrooms. If parents are not part of the solution, they are in danger of becoming part of the problem.

When eating disorders are detected early and treated properly, they are curable in 80% of cases. Recovered individuals, no longer victims of food and fear, cease to be victims of circumstance, of self, and of others. "Eating disorder recovery allows both parents and child to take back control of their lives and destinies."

Customer Reviews

Beyond informative
After seeing Ms. Natenshon on Oprah to discuss the treatment and prevention of eating disorders, I purchased her book and was so pleased to learn how valuable her approach is! This book is the first book I have seen on this subject that actually helps a parent to understand the importance of being involved with professionals in working to heal eating disorders. The information is clear and guides the reader in developing resources to truly help and not just understand the causes of these eating disorders. Her website is also extremely informative and offers resources to work hand in hand with her book. A must have for anyone trying to overcome the frustrations and helplessness associated with eating disorders and help take action that will make a difference.

Does more than inform. Gives parents guidance.
This book is essential for parents who are truly interested in helping their children overcome eating disorders. The author conveys a sense of truly caring about what happens to children with this disease and to the families of those children. Mrs. Natenshon does more than give advice. She lets parents know that they can play an integral part in helping their children cope and gives parents direction on how to be involved in their children's recoveries.

when your child has an eating disorder
This is the best book I have read on the subject by far! As the mother of a daughter with an eating disorder, I found this book to be a godsend. The author is clearly very familiar with her subjects, because she seemed to relate to everything I have experienced with my family. Unlike some other authors I've read, Ms. Natenshon is not judgmental in her writing, which I find to be extremely important. I urge everybody interested in this topic to read this book and work through the activities - you will be thankful you did!