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When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder: Practical Strategies to Help Your Teen Recover from Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating by Lauren Muhlheim, Psy.D. [Image description: photo of the cover of this book which is striped on the diagonal and rainbow colored]

 

When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder:

Practical Strategies to Help Your Teen Recover from Anorexia, Bulimia & Binge Eating

Now Available in Spanish: Libro en español

If you have a teen with an eating disorder—such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating—you may feel powerless, worried, or uncertain about how you can best support them on the road to recovery. Grounded in evidence-based strategies, this book will help give you the confidence you need to help your teen make healthy choices and heal in body and mind.

Practical Strategies for Parents

When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder offers a unique family-based treatment (FBT) approach you can use to help your teen recover. You’ll learn how best to support your teen’s nutritional rehabilitation, normalize eating behaviors, and manage meals. You’ll also discover how to help your teen adopt independent and intuitive eating habits, expand food flexibility, and use coping strategies and recovery skills to prevent relapse. With this compassionate guide, you’ll feel empowered to nurture your teen and help them stay on the road to recovery.

See select endorsements below and the full list of endorsements here.

Read the Book Review by Camden Matherne, Ph.D. in the Academy for Eating Disorders’ AED Forum.

Read the detailed review by colleague Rachel Bachner-Melman, Ph.D.

 

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When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder has been translated and published into the following additional languages: Spanish, Russian, Turkish, and Bulgarian. When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder in English, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, and Bulgarian [Image description: photo of the 5 different versions of the book spread on a table]

 


 

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“When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder is an outstanding resource for parents who are confronted with the various challenges that come their way when their child has an eating disorder. This book provides parents with a ringing endorsement that they are the ones who should take center stage in their child’s treatment, and that it is the parents who ultimately will be instrumental in bringing about recovery for their child. Dr. Muhlheim’s depth of experience working with such families shines through in this practical guide of how to make sense of the everyday challenges that a diagnosis of an eating disorder brings to such families. Most important, this book provides parents with a steady dose of practical strategies to employ while engaged in family-based treatment, and thereby adds a critical resource in this struggle to overcome their child’s illness.”
— Daniel Le Grange, PhD
Co-developer of family-based treatment; Benioff UCSF professor in children's health, and eating disorders; director in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco; and coauthor of Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder and Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa
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