Resources for children and adolescents with eating disorders
Websites
- Relate provides help for children and young people, offering specific advice for different types of worries.
- South Yorkshire Eating Disorder Association offers support and information on eating disorders.
- An information leaflet for young people about eating disorders provides helpful guidance.
- Eva Musby, a mother of a boy who struggled with anorexia nervosa, has produced a lot of helpful information at anorexia family.
- Talk Eating Disorders is an organisation offering information, helplines, and support groups for both carers or parents and young people.
- Myth busting and thoughts around the impact of eating disorders are addressed at time to change.
- Recovery stories and blogs offer insights and encouragement from those who have experienced eating disorders.
Books
- Skills based Caring for a loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Method by Janet Treasure, Grainne Smith, Anna Crane.
- Anorexia and other eating disorders: How to help your child eat well and be well by Eva Musby.
- Banish your Body Image Thief: A Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) therapy workbook on building positive body image for young people by Kate Collins, Donnelly.
- Overcoming Binge Eating: A proven Program to Learn Why You Binge and How You Can Stop by Christopher Fairburn.
- Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques by Patricia Graham and Chris Freeman.
Videos
- Explaining family based treatment and its evidence on YouTube
- Help your child eat with trust, not logic, the bungee jump on YouTube
- Parents staying on task during re-feeding in family based treatment on YouTube
- Eating disorders meal support, helpful approaches for families on YouTube
- Family based treatment, separating illness from child on YouTube
- Parental unity during family based treatment on YouTube
- Digestive symptoms during re-feeding anorexia on YouTube
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Page last reviewed: May 23, 2025
Next review due: May 23, 2026
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