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Eating Disorder Articles

Extensive library of free articles on eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating, binge eating disorder and the many co-occuring issues and challenges.

List of Article Topics

Anorexia

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Anorexia page for more information and resources!

NewYork-Presbyterian/Westchester to Undertake Groundbreaking Study of Anorexia (opens in new window)

Treatment of Anorexia

Jeanne Rust, PhD

Anxiety

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Anxiety page for more information and resources!

Anxiety Disorders: What Parents Should Know

Remuda Ranch Program for Eating & Anxiety Disorders

The Importance Of Addressing OCD And Other Anxiety Disorders Symptoms In The Treatment Of Eating Disorders

By Theodore E. Weltzin, MD ~ Medical Director of Eating Disorder Services at Rogers Memorial Hospital

Bariatric Surgery & Lapband

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Bariatric Surgery and Lapband page for more information and resources!

Weight Loss Surgery: A Magic Bullet? A Realistic Look At The Medical And Psychological Risks

Sharon K. Farber, PhD

Why is it required to have a psychological evaluation prior to weight-loss surgery?

By David Engstrom, PhD, ABPP

Pregnancy after Weight-Loss Surgery

By John G. Kral, MD, PhD, FACS

Food Addiction and the Weight-loss Surgery Patient

By Katie Jay, MSW

Weight-Loss Surgery Treatment Options

By Robin Blackstone, MD, FACS, Melissa Davis, RN MSN, APRN,BC, NP-C, CNS
Lloyd Stegemann, MD and Debra Salvatore, RN, BS, CNOR, CFN

Binge Eating Disorder/Compulsive Overeating

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Binge Eating Disorder/Compulsive Overeating page for more information and resources!

Disordered Eating of Another Kind

Kimberly Dennis, M.D. @ Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center

Binge Eating Disorder Medical Complications

Remuda Ranch

Secrets of the 2% Who Succeed

Gregory Jantz, PhD @ A Place of Hope

The Psychology of Overeating

Dr. Sandra Smit

Body Image

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Body Image page for more information and resources!

Body Image a Concern for Students of All Ages

Kimberly Dennis, M.D. @ Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center

Turn Beauty Inside Out

Stephanie Brooks, MS, RD @ Bay Area Nutrition

Body Checking and Eating Disorders

Debra Cooper @ Remuda Ranch Programs for Eating and Anxiety Disorders

Challenging Body Distortions Through the Eyes of the Body

Susan Kleinman, MA, ADTR, NCC

Battling Our Bodies: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Body Images

Nicole Hawkins, PhD : Center For Change

Bulimia

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Bulimia page for more information and resources!

Treatment of Bulimia

Jeanne Rust, PhD

Childhood & Adolescent eating Disorders

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Childhood & Adolescents page for more information and resources!

Healing at the Heart: Healing environment gets to the heart of pediatric eating disorders

Tracey Cornella-Carlson, MD

New Program Aims to Help Children and Adolescents Recover from Eating Disorders

Eating Disorder Services at Rogers Memorial Hospital

Treating children with eating disorders

Julie Lesser, MD

Childhood Obesity and Stigma

By Rebecca Puhl, PhD

Fostering Healthy Body Image And Weight In Your Pre-Teen Or Teen

Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, MD

Parental Influence Takes Precedence Over Barbie and the Media

Abigail Natenshon

What Parents Can Do to Help Their Girls Love Their Bodies - Part One

Abigail Natenshon

What Parents Can Do to Help Their Girls Love Their Bodies - Part Two

Abigail Natenshon

When Very Young Kids Have Eating Disorders

Abigail Natenshon

What Parents Need to Know

Abigail Natenshon

Mom, Am I Fat?

Abigail Natenshon

"Innocent" Parental Messages to Young Children May be Harmful

Abigail Natenshon

From Obesity to Anorexia - Recapturing the lost art of Healthy Eating offers - Simple Solutions to Complex Questions

Abigail Natenshon

Empowering Statements

Abigail Natenshon

Body Image Concerns in Kids

Abigail Natenshon

Mom, Am I Fat? (opens in new window)

Abigail Natenshon

The Parent Connection in Eating Disorders Recovery: Squeaking the Recovery Wheel Part One (opens in new window)

Abigail Natenshon

Promotion of Healthy Weight

HELPING WITHOUT HARMING
Kathy J. Kater, LICSW

Compulsive Spending

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Compulsive Spending page for more information and resources!

The Shopping and Food Connection: An Examination of Hunger Diseases
Angela Wurtzel, , MA, MFT, CEDS

Culture/International

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our International Eating Disorders Section of the site for more information and resources!

Multicultural Issues and Eating Disorders

Jacquelyn Ekern of www.eatingdisorderhope.com

Pro Ana versus Pro Recovery Sites: Choosing Hope Over Despair

Jacquelyn Ekern, MS, LPC of www.eatingdisorderhope.com

Diabetes

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Diabetes page for more information and resources!

I Don't Want To Change My Life! Diabetes and You

Fran Weiss, LCSW-R, BCD, DCSW, CGP

Diabetes and Eating Disorders: Double the Complications

Marcia Meier, BAN, RN, CDE

Exercise and Athletes

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Exercise page for more information and resources!

Athletes and Eating Disorders

Rader Program

Excessive Exercise

Theodore E. Weltzin, MD Medical director of Eating Disorder Services at Rogers Memorial Hospital

Experience and Strength with Eating Disorder Recovery in Female Athletes

By Kimberly Dennis, MD

A fish out of water: exercise, poor nutrition and eating disorders

Lois Neaton, PT

Intuitive Exercise

Nancy Hieber, RD and Michael E. Berrett, PhD : Center For Change

Family & Friends

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Friends & Family page for more information and resources!

Helping A Friend Could Save a Life

Kimberly Dennis, M.D. @ Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center

Family-based Treatment of Adolescent
Anorexia Nervosa: The Maudsley Approach

by: Daniel Le Grange, PhD and James Lock, MD, Ph.D..

Your Teen And Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Chris Haltom, Ph.D.

Tips For Parents With Eating Disorders

Abigail Natenshon

Anorexia and Bulimia - How Family & Friends Can Help

Center for Change

Dilemmas for Parenting Amid the Social Pressures of Eating Disorders

Kip Rasmussen, PhD : Center For Change

Social Support: The Cradle in Which Growth and Recovery Take Place

Michael E. Berrett, PhD : Center For Change

Feelings

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Feelings page for more information and resources!

The Importance of Emotional Expression

Erin Elfant-Rea, Ph.D.

Feelings Matter

Jacquelyn Ekern, MS, LPC

Help a Friend

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Friends & Family page for more information and resources!

When You Look At Me...

Laurie Glass

Tips for Talking to a Friend Who May Be Struggling with an Eating Disorder

National Eating Disorders Association

Holidays / Special Events

Thriving During the Holidays

Tera Lensegrav-Benson, Ph.D.

Seasonal Blues - The Warmer Side of It

Kimberly Dennis, M.D. @ Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center

Inspirational

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Women of Substance page for more inspirational stories of recovery!

Power of Interruption: Do the next right thing

Jenni Schaefer

Hope: Believing in yourself and letting go

Jenni Schaefer

Intuitive Eating

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Nutrition page for more information and resources!

Using The Non-Diet Approach For Treating Binge Eating Disorder(BED)

Robyn Goldberg, RD

What is Normal Eating?

Jeanne Rust, PhD

Learning to Listen to Your Body

Abigail Natenshon

Dieting is Out, Listening to Our Bodies Is In

Alice Covey, RD, CD : Center For Change

If Not Dieting, Then What? (opens in new window)

Dr Rick Kausman

Boundary Invasion as Cause of Eating Disorders

Joanna Poppink

Male Eating Disorders

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Males page for more information and resources!

It's a disease, and a disease has no gender, it picks on men and women alike

Rader Program

A Silent Problem

Theodore E. Weltzin, MD Medical director of Eating Disorder Services at Rogers Memorial Hospital

Boys, Body Image and Eating Disorders

Cris Haltom, Ph.D.

Media and Fashion Industry

Media and Eating Disorders

Rader Programs

Media Messages: Why Do We Keep Buying Them?

Michelle Morand

Academy for Eating Disorders Guidelines for the Fashion Industry

Academy for Eating Disorders

Dying to Fit In, Literally! Learning to Love our Bodies and Ourselves

Christine Hartline of EdReferral.com

Midlife Eating Disorders

Study Shows Mid-Life Crisis Does Not Lead to Eating DIsorders

Eating Disorder Center of Denver

Mentoring

The Efficacy of Adding a Mentor to the Integrated Eating Disorders Treatment Team

Shannon Cutts of www.key-to-life.com

I Found A Mentor: Now What? 7 Steps to Building a Quality Mentoring Partnership

Shannon Cutts of www.key-to-life.com

Mentoring as an Essential Component of Recovery

Shannon Cutts of www.key-to-life.com

Nutrition

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Nutrition page for more information and resources!

Facing Food Fears

Lisa Licavoli, RD,CCN

The Non-Diet Approach to Health and Weight Management

Stephanie Brooks, MS, RD

An Argument for Recovery

Lynne Martin, RD

Becoming Vegetarian? Be Sure to Become a "Smart" One

Abigail Natenshon

Find a nutritionist (opens in new window)

American Dietetic Association

Dr. Gregory L. Jantz Answers Your Questions

Executive Director The Center for Counseling & Health Resources, Inc. A Place of Hope

Physical/Biological Issues

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Health page for more information and resources!

Is an Eating Disorder Hereditary? Biological Theories and the Development of an Eating Disorder

Jeanne Rust, PhD

Reflections on the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Adair Look, MD

Laxative Abuse

Rader Programs

IPECAC Abuse

Rader Programs

Diabetes And Eating Disorders

Rader Programs

What are Eating Disorders?

Rader Programs

Diabetes and Eating Disorders: Double the Complications

Marcia Meier, BAN, RN, CDE

Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

By Joanne Z. Rogers, MSN, RN, CNSN, APRN, BC-AD, and Christopher D. Still, DO, FACN, FACP

How Obesity Affects Arthritis

By Leni Ellen Kramer, MD, FACR

Eating Disorders are Biologically Based Mental Illnesses

Academy for Eating Disorders (AED)

News about Menstrual Irregularity and Eating Disorders

Cris Haltom, PhD

Hair Analysis May Help Detect Eating Disorders (opens in new window)

Pregnancy

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Pregnancy page for more information and resources!

Pregorexia

Remuda Ranch

Professionals

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Eating Disorder Professionals section of the site for more information and resources!

Making the Most of Your Whole Self: Being an Embodied Therapist

Susan Kleinman, MA, ADTR, NCC

The Feldenkrais Method as it relates to the Emotional Self

Abigail Natenshon MA, LCSW, GCFP

Finding the Needle in the Haystack of Eating Disorder Care-Providers

Abigail Natenshon MA, LCSW, GCFP

Team Up for Teens: Guidelines for Treating Adolescents with Eating Disorders

Michael E. Berrett, Ph.D. : Center For Change

Tip Sheet: Eating Disorders (ED) in Primary Care

Richard E. Kreipe, MD

Increasing Structure in Outpatient Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia

Michael E. Berrett, Ph.D., Julie B. Clark-Sly, Ph.D. and Randy K. Hardman, Ph.D. : Center For Change

Group psychotherapy with Obese Disordered-Eating Adults with Body Image Disturbances: An Integrated Model (opens in new window)

Fran Weiss, LCSW-R, BCD, DCSW, CGP. American Journal of Psychotherapy, (2004).

Ecstatic Stigmatics and Holy Anorexics: Medieval and Contemporary (opens in new window)

Sharon Klayman Farber, PhD, BCD

Self-Medication, Traumatic Reenactment, And Somatic Expression In Bulimic And Self-Mutilating Behavior (opens in new window)

Sharon Klayman Farber, Ph.D., B.C.D.

Integrating body self and psychological self: Creating a New Story in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (opens in new window)

David Krueger, MD

WRITING A NEW STORY
Contributions to Recovery from Professional Coaching

David Krueger MD MentorPath.com

Psychological Issues

Attachment, Trauma and Eating Disorders

Mark Schwartz, Sc.D., Castlewood Treatment Center for Eating Disorders

Anxiety Disorder Treatment

Remuda Ranch

Anxiety Disorders

Remuda Ranch

Anxiety Disorders - Warning Signs and Causality

Remuda Ranch

Anxiety Disorders - What Parents Should Know

Remuda Ranch

Anxiety Disorders in Children

Remuda Ranch

Exposure With Response Therapy

Remuda Ranch

Self Harm

Rader Programs

Teen Anxiety

Remuda Ranch

Recovery Skills

Self Soothing Skills: An Essential Tool of Eating Disorder Treatment

Jacquelyn Ekern, MS, LPC

Eating Disorder Recovery and Overcoming Negative Thoughts

Jacquelyn Ekern, MS, LPC
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Sexual Trauma

Using Creative Strategies to Reach Sexually Traumatized Clients Who Engage in Eating Disorders

Melissa K. Taylor, MS, LMFT

Statistics

Prevalence and Outcome of Eating Disorders

Rader Progams

Eating Disorder Statistics

Jeanne Rust, PhD

Stress

Effective Coping Skills in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Jeanne Rust, PhD

Treatment

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Eating Disorder Specialist Library for more information and resources!

Top 10 Tips for Eating Disorder Recovery: Building an Effective Eating Disorder Treatment Plan

Jacquelyn Ekern, MS, LPC, Director of Eating Disorder Hope

The Importance of Addressing OCD and Other Anxiety Disorders Symptoms in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Theodore E. Weltzin, MD; Nicolette Weisensel, MD; Tracey Cornella-Carlson, MD; Bradley C. Riemann, PhD; and Pamela Bean, PhD.

The Eating Disorder Treatment Team

Abigail Natenshon

Efficacy of Equine Therapy: Mounting Evidence

Edward J. Cumella Ph.D. and Sharon Simpson, Remuda Ranch Programs for Eating Disorders

Types of Treatment

Jeanne Rust, PhD

Choosing An Eating Disorder Treatment Clinic

Jeanne Rust, PhD

Weight Management

Don't Eat After 7 and Six Other Weight Management Myths

Michelle May, M.D.

What are Eating Disorders

**In addition to the articles listed here, visit our Anorexia, Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder/Compulsive Overeating pages for more information and resources!

Signs & Symptoms of Eating Disorders

Rader Programs

What Are Eating Disorders

Jeanne Rust @ Mirasol

Eating disorders don't just affect teens

Nan Brown, MA, LP

Eating Disorders: A Weighty Concern Physically, Emotionally

Joel Jahraus, MD

Eating Disorders - Do You Have One

Laurie Glass

American Psychiatric Association on Eating Disorders (opens in new window)

Mayo Clinic on Eating Disorders (opens in new window)

Eating Disorders: Psychotherapy's Role in Effective Treatment (PDF - opens in new window)

American Psychology Association