Parents’ FAQs on NG tube feeding someone with anorexia nervosa. Willingly or under restraint.
How do you get your child to eat?
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.
How to build up your own resilience and wellbeing when your child has an eating disorder
Extract from Ch 15. All about your wellbeing, your resilience, your strengths, so that you can cope right now and even flourish in the longer term. Resources and nourishment for your soul.
Young adults with anorexia: FBT-TAY family-based treatment for 17-25 year olds
How family therapy can be adapted to young adults (17-25 years) with anorexia. Reporting on work by Lock, Le Grange and others working in Family-Based Treatment (FBT/Maudsley)
The parent’s part in eating disorders diagnosis
Find out how eating disorders are diagnosed, the pitfalls you can guard against, and get tips on how to get expert care without delay.
This is Chapter 3 from my book.
Adolescent-focused therapy (AFT) for anorexia: how does it compare with family-based treatment?
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?
How long should I persist with a meal when my child has an eating disorder?
How long should you persist with a meal? Use a set time limit? Supplement calories? Use sanctions? How to end the meal such that the next one will work.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for eating disorders
What is CBT for eating disorders, when may it work, and what to watch out for
What to say when you discover your child binned food at school (eating disorders)
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
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 …