How do you get your child to eat?

How do you get your child to eat in spite of anorexia/eating disorder

Excerpt from Chapter 7: How to help your child to eat. Tips to feed our sons and daughters in spite of the eating disorder. All the tips I’ve learned from experience, from our therapists and from other parents. I use a bungee-jumping analogy to illustrate the principles. Later, I’ll offer some examples using practical scenarios.

Adolescent-focused therapy (AFT) for anorexia: how does it compare with family-based treatment?

How does Adolescent-Focused-Therapy (AFT) compare with FBT

How does adolescent-focused therapy (AFT) compare with a family-based approach like FBT? What does the NICE guideline say about choosing a family therapy, adolescent-focused therapy or cognitive-behaviour therapy?

What to say when you discover your child binned food at school (eating disorders)

Bin food in school - eating disorder

In the book I give you principles and examples of empathy and dialogue.
Here is one more example you might relate to.

The child has secretly been binning food in school and the parent is trying to connect, understand and find solutions.

What can the parent say to both connect and find solutions?

Love, no matter what: how to support your child with compassionate communication as you treat the eating disorder

Unconditional love eating disorder ch14

Last updated on July 31st, 2023This is a section from Chapter 14 of ‘Anorexia and other eating disorders – how to help your child eat well and be well’ Also useful: you can hear me demonstrate examples of dialogue in Bitesize. Has it become difficult to recognise your son or daughter? Do you struggle to …