If someone you know and care about has an eating disorder, or if you think they might have an eating disorder, you may be looking for information on how you can help. Parents and friends of a person with an eating disorder may find supportive information here. Please browse the articles and resources in this helping others section.
Eating Disorder Education: Benefits for Parents and Teens
Encourage healthy growth by offering eating disorder education to the wildflower that is your teenager.
Sometimes parents are afraid that educational materials about eating disorders will stimulate an eating disorder in their teenager. Parents also fear such material will encourage a teenager with an eating disorder to try new and different methods of acting out the illness. Sometimes loving parents are afraid to know specific information about eating disorders themselves. They think that if they ignore the subject it will keep the disorder out of their lives.
Eating Disorder Prevention: Advice for Educators
by Lindsay Trowbridge
As the Outreach and Prevention Coordinator at Healthy Within, an eating disorders treatment center in San Diego, I have been providing presentations to high school students about eating disorders and body image issues for the past 3 years and have spoken to over 3,000 students. I would like to pass on to you what I have learned over the years about presentations concerning eating disorders, with the hope that it will enable you to choose the best speaker for your students.
Number One Reason For Developing An Eating Disorder
The reality and the symbolism of a traffic light is an image to keep in mind in eating disorder recovery, especially when negotiating boundaries.
How to Report Suspected Child Maltreatment
This hotline is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Hotline can tell you where to file your report and can help you make the report.
For information on what to expect when you call, go to http://www.childhelpusa.org/report_expect.htm. For a list of States' toll-free telephone numbers for reporting suspected child abuse, visit http://www.childhelpusa.org/report_local.htm or call the Clearinghouse at 800-FYI-3366.
The home page for Child Help USA is: http://www.childhelpusa.org/index.htm
