Muhlheim Lauren - When your teen has an eating disorder: practical strategies to help your teen recover from anorexia, bulimia & binge eating

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 childs treatment, and that it is the parents who ultimately will be instrumental in bringing about recovery for their child. Muhlheims 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 (FBT), and thereby adds a critical resource in this struggle to overcome their childs illness.

Daniel Le Grange, PhD , codeveloper of FBT; Benioff UCSF professor in childrens 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

This book fills a necessary gap in helping parents to feel effective and engaged in tackling their childs eating disorder. The calm, compassionate voice of Lauren Muhlheim describing the challenges and engagement associated with family-based re-nourishment provides a necessary succor for families engaging in FBT. Her commonsense, easy-to-read, and insightful book is like having a seasoned FBT therapist on speed dial. Muhlheims work with families, as well as her keen interest in and development of FBT practice for therapists, coalesce into this great book.

Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick, PhD , psychologist and director
of the Outpatient Eating Disorder Clinic in the department
of child and adolescent psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University and Stanford Childrens Hospital

Eating disorders are serious diseases that can have a major impact on the physical and mental health of those affected. They can easily go unrecognized and untreated. In her book, eating disorders expert Lauren Muhlheim helps readers become fully aware of practical strategies and helpful tips to apply FBTthe only evidence-based treatment for adolescents with eating disorders. As Lauren states, a parents involvement and understanding is crucial for better outcomes. This is a book that is worth reading, and I am sure many parents and families will benefit greatly. I loved it and I give my most enthusiastic applause for this addition to the eating disorders literature!

Eva Maria Trujillo Chi Vacun, MD , past president at
the Academy for Eating Disorders; medical director and founder of Comenzar de Nuevo, A.C., International Treatment Center for Eating Disorders; clinical professor
at Tecnolgico de Monterrey School of Medicine

In this groundbreaking book, Lauren Muhlheim provides a wise, inspiring, and compassionate guide through the complicated journey of an eating disorder. When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder is a must-read for anyone who cares for a young person suffering with disordered eating and negative body image. Above all, this book provides true hope that healing does indeed happen!

Jenni Schaefer , author of Life Without Ed ; Almost Anorexic ;
and Goodbye Ed, Hello Me

This outstanding book concisely and methodically takes you through the steps needed to treat your teens eating disorder. Everything parents absolutely must know is in here. Lauren Muhlheim is an experienced clinician who really understands the practicalities of what happens at home.

Eva Musby , parent and author of Anorexia and Other
Eating Disorders

When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder is an absolute must-read for parents who would like to support their childs recovery at home. This validating and accessible self-help guide walks parents through the most evidence-based treatment approach for child and adolescent eating disordersFBT. The detailed case examples, step-by-step action plans, and helpful worksheets bring FBT to life and demonstrate exactly how parents can implement its useful and timely strategies calmly and confidently at the very next meal.

Jennifer J. Thomas, PhD , codirector of the Eating
Disorders Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; associate professor of psychology in the department of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; and author of Almost Anorexic

Lauren Muhlheims book walks readers through the terrifying terrain of helping a teen recover from an eating disorder. She offers evidence-based information and practical advice in a reassuring, matter-of-fact tone, which is exactly what parents need when theyre in the thick of a childs illness.

Harriet Brown , author of Shadow Daughter , Body of Truth , and Brave Girl Eating ; professor of magazine journalism,
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

This is the best workbook for parents that I have reviewed. Muhlheim does an outstanding job of emphasizing the importance of parents in the recovery process and offers evidence-based, practical advice on how to accomplish recovery. This is the book that I will recommend to families as an introduction to the illnesses and what the challenges of recovery will be . Excellent contribution to the field.

Craig Johnson, PhD, CEDS, FAED , chief science officer
and codirector of the Family Institute, Eating Recovery Center; clinical professor of psychiatry, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder empowers readers with practical information and evidence-based tools for navigating these illnesses as a family. Its a hopeful, helpful guide written with the understanding that parents truly are on the front lines of eating disorder recovery.

Claire Mysko , chief executive officer, National Eating
Disorders Association

Any parent with a loved one suffering from an eating disorder, as well as clinicians treating them, will benefit from this treasure. As a clinical psychologist devoting my career to including families as part of the treatment team, I strongly recommend this book to help you navigate best practices to restore your loved one to health.

Roxanne E. Rockwell, PhD , director, adolescent eating disorders services, Eating Disorders Center for Treatment
and Research, USA; assistant clinical professor,
UC San Diego department of psychiatry, School of Medicine

This is an outstanding, practical guide that can help any parent or caregiver navigate the daunting terrain of helping their loved one fight an eating disorder, and one of the best books out there. To parents looking for a guide: pick this one up, read it, and move forward with renewed confidence that you are not alone. Hear the voices of other parents who have been through this. Youve got this, and Lauren Muhlheim is there to make sure you know you are your childs greatest asset in fighting this disease.

Rebecka Peebles, MD , director of research and quality innovations, Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment Program, The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia; assistant professor, The Craig-Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine; department of pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Lauren Muhlheim offers a practical, accessible guide to helping your teen recover from an eating disorder. Her book offers step-by-step guidance on how to manage meals, as well as the emotions and conversations that occur around food. More, she provides hope that teens can recover, and empowers families to facilitate the healing at home.

Stacey Rosenfeld, PhD , psychologist, certified group psychotherapist, certified eating disorders specialist, and