Recovery from an eating disorder, like life itself, isn’t a race. As long as you look at recovery as a continuum, rather than a single…
Read More
Category: Therapy for Eating Disorders
Time Management in Eating Disorder Treatment
The Monday Morning Blahs and the Sunday Night Blues Do you ever have the “Sunday Night Blues” or the “Monday Morning Blahs?” Do you find…
Read More
Kindness and Self-Respect
Loving kindness: genuine care and appreciation for the well being of another; a respect for everyone’s values. This is a worthy concept and also one…
Read More
Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy involves exploring the shaping moments of a person’s life, the turning points, the key relationships, and those particular memories not dimmed by time….
Read More
Healthy Beginnings Have Happy Endings
“There is more difference within the sexes than between them.” Ivy Compton-Burnett The objective will be to focus on relationships or Eating Disorder Inventory III…
Read More
Is It Worth Dying For?
A recent commercial including all males portrays an interesting perspective on how obsessed Americans have become with their body image. In essence, it conveys the…
Read More
Eating Disorders and Middle-Age
Eating disorders are typically considered an illness that affects young women in their teens and early twenties but in recent years, there has been an…
Read More
Psychological Testing in the Treatment of Individuals with Eating Disorders
By: Susan E. Justitz, Ph.D. What is the clinical rationale, purpose, and importance for using assessments with those with a formal eating disorder? Psychological testing…
Read More
Eating Disorders – It’s a Family Affair
Over 24 million individuals struggle with disordered eating; of those, about 8 million have a formal eating disorder. Ninety percent of them will never seek…
Read More