Take Charge of Your Child's Eating Disorder: A Physician's Step-by-Step Guide to Defeating Anorexia and Bulimia
Eating disorders require a complex combination of psychological, medical, and nutritional approaches. As a parent, you are the constant guardian of your child's health, but often the best way to extend treatment from the examining room to the living room isn't clear. Take Charge of Your Child's Eating Disorder is a hands-on, medically-based guide that tells you what you need to know about eating disorders. As the founder and director of the Adolescent Eating Disorder Parent Education and...
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Eating disorders require a complex combination of psychological, medical, and nutritional approaches. As a parent, you are the constant guardian of your child's health, but often the best way to extend treatment from the examining room to the living room isn't clear. Take Charge of Your Child's Eating Disorder is a hands-on, medically-based guide that tells you what you need to know about eating disorders. As the founder and director of the Adolescent Eating Disorder Parent Education and Support Program at Stanford University, Dr. Pamela Carlton has treated hundreds of children and adolescents with eating disorders as well as guided their parents through the maze of eating disorder treatments. This book offers a wealth of crucial information, including:• Warning signs and diagnostic criteria for anorexia, bulimia, and eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS)• Facts about the "hidden" eating disorder — "Female Athletic Triad"• A step-by-step plan for diagnosis, treatment options, and recovery support• Detailed advice for putting together and successfully managing a treatment team• The real story about insurance: what’s covered, what’s not, and how to fight the system• Specific strategies for handling delicate situations, talking to your child, and accessing the most up-to-date resources Library Journal Eating disorders are complex, difficult to treat, and often life-threatening. Pediatrician Carlton (founder & director, Adolescent Eating Disorder Education & Support Program, Stanford Univ.) here collaborates with writer Ashin to offer parents a practical guide to helping their afflicted children. Carlton stresses that eating disorders require a multidisciplinary team including physicians, psychotherapists, and nutritionists as well as parents. She provides support tools and information to assist parents in finding appropriate treatment, choosing programs and practitioners, and dealing with insurance issues. A series of appendixes lists web sites for patients, families, and health professionals; books; resources for finding specialists; and sample letters and a kit for appealing to insurance providers (the latter includes materials for families and physicians). Quotes from teens and parents dealing with eating disorders provide a dose of reality. This is an excellent book, more detailed and up to date than Tania Heller's Eating Disorders: A Handbook for Teens, Families and Teachers. The information on dealing with insurance providers is especially valuable and not usually included in other books on this subject. Highly recommended for public, health science, and consumer health libraries.-Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Preface xiiiStraight Talk About Eating Disorders 1Everything You Need to Know About Eating Disorders: Definitions, Warning Signs, and Diagnosis 3The Questions Every Parent Asks: Why My Child? What Did I Do Wrong? 19Accepting the Truth and Moving Forward 27The Medical Risks of Eating Disorders 37Private Thoughts: What Kids Say about Their Condition 49You Know There's a Problem: Now What Do You Do? 63Getting Help: Organizing Your Child's Treatment Team 67Working with Your Child's Medical Specialist 75Working with Your Child's Psychiatric Provider 87Working with Your Child's Registered Dietitian 95Extreme Situations 101Healing the Body at a Medical Hospital 105Healing the Mind at a Residential Treatment Program 119It's Up to You: Strategies to Help Parents Promote Recovery 129Supporting Your Child at Home 133Food for Thought: Planning, Preparing, and Supervising Meals 151Creating a Safe and Healthy Environment at School 157What About the Rest of Us? 161Tactics to Get Your Insurance Company to Pay for Treatment 165Maximizing Insurance Reimbursement 169Final Thoughts 185Acknowledgments 187Appendices 189Internet Resources 189Referral Resources for Finding Eating Disorders Specialists 191Recommended Books about Eating Disorders 195Sample Insurance Letters 199The Insurance Appeal Pack 207Guideline for Physicians for Responding to Denial for "Lack of Medical Necessity" 211Resources for Physicians 213Notes 217Index 219
\ Library JournalEating disorders are complex, difficult to treat, and often life-threatening. Pediatrician Carlton (founder & director, Adolescent Eating Disorder Education & Support Program, Stanford Univ.) here collaborates with writer Ashin to offer parents a practical guide to helping their afflicted children. Carlton stresses that eating disorders require a multidisciplinary team including physicians, psychotherapists, and nutritionists as well as parents. She provides support tools and information to assist parents in finding appropriate treatment, choosing programs and practitioners, and dealing with insurance issues. A series of appendixes lists web sites for patients, families, and health professionals; books; resources for finding specialists; and sample letters and a kit for appealing to insurance providers (the latter includes materials for families and physicians). Quotes from teens and parents dealing with eating disorders provide a dose of reality. This is an excellent book, more detailed and up to date than Tania Heller's Eating Disorders: A Handbook for Teens, Families and Teachers. The information on dealing with insurance providers is especially valuable and not usually included in other books on this subject. Highly recommended for public, health science, and consumer health libraries.-Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.\ \
