If Your Adolescent Has an Eating Disorder

• Optimistic and practical guide designed to help parents and other adults get help for and cope with adolescents who have these potentially life-threatening disorders
• Features the most up-to-date research findings on eating disorders
• Combines professional advice from a leading psychiatrist and practical daily management tips from parents who have faced these disorders in their own children
• Incorporates the word of parents throughout to create something of a "virtual support group"
• Addresses the hot-button issue of obesity and whether its treatment (e.g., dieting programs) can put teens at risk for eating disorders
• This is one of 12 paperbacks in the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative series, sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation at Sunnylands as part of a broad effort to educate the public and improve the nation's understanding of and response to adolescent mental illness

Readership: Parents, teachers, school counsellors, clinicians

B. Timothy Walsh, Chair, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, USA, and V. L. Cameron

Foreword
1: Introduction: Not Just a Diet
2: Understanding Eating Disorders: What They Are and What to Expect
3: Getting the Right Treatment for Your Child: Therapy, Medication, and More
4: Daily Life with the Teen Who Has an Eating Disorder
5: Preventing Eating Disorders
6: Conclusion: A Call for Action