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.
Have you ever wondered whether your eating habits and/or body image concerns could indicate the onset of an eating disorder? Are you of the (erroneous) belief that an ED is incurable, and does it frighten you to think that an eating disorder might be fatal? If you are currently in treatment, do you feel discouraged that your progress is not what it should be? Do you feel at a loss for where to turn to find the quality of expert help you or your loved one deserve?
During the 40 years of my practice in psychotherapy, I have brought literally hundreds of hard-to-treat clients and their families to complete recovery... to a resolution of eating-related problems, along with a re-connection to their exiled core self, permitting more effective acceptance and resolution of all of life's problems. I treat and provide consultation to clients individually, in groups, and through family therapy and have pioneered in integrating the experiential mind/body work of the Feldenkrais Method as a cutting-edge adjunct treatment technique to augment and promote body image awareness, and enhance body-and self-image acceptance, integration and healing.
As founder and director of "Eating Disorder Specialists of Illinois: a Clinic without Walls," I am the author of "When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder: a Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers" (1999) and "Doing What Works: an Integrative System for the Treatment of Eating Disorders from Diagnosis to Recovery" (2009). I provide consultation for health professionals, and speak nationally on topics related to eating disorders and body image concerns, their prevention and treatment, having made appearances as an eating disorder expert on the Oprah Winfrey and John Walsh Shows, among other TV and radio news programs. I conduct my private practice in psychotherapy in Highland Park Illinois, where I reside with my husband.
For more information, please visit my three educational and interactive web sites, www.treatingeatingdisorders.com for health professionals; www.empoweredparents.com for parents and families; and www.empoweredkidZ.com for children. For free resources or to have Abigail speak at your next parental or professional group function, contact Abbie through http://www.empoweredparents.com.
