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

Page last reviewed: August 11, 2025
Next review due: August 11, 2026