Tag: school

Practical steps to help your child beat the eating disorder: magic plate and other tools for the first phase of treatment

Excerpt from Chapter 6: Practical steps to beat the eating disorder
How to tell the school of your child’s eating-disorder needs: template for a 504 Plan

A template document to educate the school about your child’s eating disorder and make clear requests
School trip or summer camp: a helpful flow chart when your child is recovering from an eating disorder

When your child is in recovery from an eating disorder, you may decide she’s safe enough to go on a school trip. At the same time, there’s an element of risk. What if 10 days away from your supervision is just too much? What if she eats without anxiety but not enough to compensate for…
Schools, this is how you spot an eating disorder

What are the behavioural, mood and physical warning signs that warn a school that a pupil may have an eating disorder?
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?
Is your school supporting lunch? For pupils with an eating disorder, it must.

If your school isn’t supporting your child’s needs — such as supervising meals when they have a restrictive eating disorder — here are legal tools in UK and worldwide
Schools health promotion, body confidence, diets, disordered eating and obesity: what to do?

For schools: The DO’s and DON’Ts of health promotion, body confidence, diets, disordered eating and obesity prevention. Includes validated body confidence programs.
What do pupils and school staff need to know about eating disorders?

What information should schools give to staff and pupils on eating disorders? This will help with early detection and remove stigma, while also not providing vulnerable pupils with a ‘how-to’ manual
Practical measures schools take to support pupils with an eating disorder

Practical help schools can give with mealtime supervision, reporting back to parents, dealing with deadlines and school trips (pupils with an eating disorder)
Schools: what to do when a pupil shows signs of an eating disorder

Schools: how to work with parents when you suspect an eating disorder. What to say to parents, to the pupil? What if the parents don’t want to to refer to clinicians?
How schools, parents and clinicians work together to treat pupils with an eating disorder

How school staff, parents and clinicians work together to make sure a pupil with an eating disorder gets prompt and effective treatment.
Why your school needs to address eating and body confidence

For schools. What are: eating disordered, disordered eating, body confidence. How common? How dangerous? Why should your school address this?
Schools: your template for an eating disorders, disordered eating, exercise and body confidence policy

An eating disorder policy for schools. A template you can adapt to suit your school. Deals with eating disorders, disordered eating, body dissatisfaction, health promotion, obesity.
Eating disorders guidance for schools: it’s all here

The main menu page for schools: your portal to everything a school needs to know about eating disorders, disordered eating, health promotion and obesity. How to spot issues, what to do about them, and how prevention works.
School support: a checklist for parents of a child with an eating disorder

Teamwork between parents and teachers helps children with eating disorders benefit from school. I imagine that staff in schools all over the world have a desire to contribute to a child and a family’s wellbeing. If this is not what you’re seeing, the key to removing obstacles is communication. Engage key teachers in understanding the…