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Exciting new research on the management of eating disorders will put parents in the driver's seat as far as how to manage their child's eating and food at home. Parents who read this book will have clear and comprehensive directions about how to treat a child with a serious eating disorder while keeping their child at home - instead of in a hospital. Dr. Herrin's experience with families has helped provide examples of how this treatment approach works. This book helps parents feel empowered to take an active role in making treatment more successful. Dr. Herrin's approach starts with the family, teaching parents how to examine and understand their family's approach to food and body image issues, and how it is affecting their child's behaviour. Parents learn to identify an eating disorder and are guided through the difficult process of intervention. Most importantly, this book is designed to help parents become an integral part of the child's recovery process by literally feeding their child. This book differs from existing eating disorder self-help books in several key ways. Instead of focusing on the grim hospital stays of patients with severe disorders, Dr.
Herrin emphasizes early detection and intervention and the importance of establishing healthy attitudes toward food at a young age. Rather than just focusing on older teens, a population in which eating disorders often emerge or become more severe, attention is also directed toward adolescents and younger children. This book will prove to parents that effective solutions can begin in the home, at virtually no cost to them other than a healthy investment of time, effort and love.