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Stepping Up To the Plate

The Power of Enlightened Parenting in Healing a Child's Eating Disorder

A 5-Part On-line Lecture Series for Parents, Schools, and Community Groups

 

Parents confronting an eating disorder in their child no longer need not feel lost or frightened.

Enlightened and empowered parenting is possibly the most invaluable resource for the recovering child, professional team, and healing process.  Eating disorders are family system disorders; they affect and involve every member of the family, through dysfunctional behaviors and recovery struggles played out at dinner tables and in family bathrooms. Parents need to turn love into action, the forward momentum of these tenacious disorders into healing. They need learn to diagnose disorders in their early stages, confront their child, put together an expert treatment team in support of their child's recovery, bring their child to care, and collaborate as ‘most valuable players’ on that team. The inclusion of parents, families and loved ones in family treatment (particularly with child and teen patients) insures that positive family system changes occur in tandem with, and reinforcing, the child’s recovery changes, offering efficacy in the pacing and sustainability of recovery.

Parents are not to blame for their child’s eating disorder. There is a lot they can do, however, to heal their child once afflicted, or prevent the worsening of a condition that may ultimately trigger eating disorder onset. Perhaps you've heard that eating disorders cannot be cured, that "once anorexic, always anorexic" Don't believe it. When enlightened parents learn how to respond effectively and leave no stone unturned, when help is optimal and effective support is forthcoming, eating disorders are completely and fully curable in 80 percent of cases.

 

Parents of disordered children need to:

  • Become knowledgeable
  • Become proactive.
  • Take charge…

…until such time as the child is capable of resuming self-care, self-regulation and self-control. Parents who are not part of the solution run the risk of becoming part of the problem.

 

This 5 part online workshop and training series will provide parents the know-how, impetus, permission and confidence needed….in one’s self, in one’s parenting, and in a convoluted recovery process… to parent the child effectively through this most pivotal and transformational time. Having gone through this process together with your child, the breadth and depth of the parent/child relationship will be enhanced for life. When brought to a successful outcome, the eating disorder recovery process results in your child “getting her self back;” and parents “getting their child back.”

These online  workshops will teach parents what they need to know in order to:

  • Recognize disease.
  • Choose expert team professionals; parents learn what to listen for in prospective candidates, and to trust their instincts in making the best choices.
  • Bring their child to treatment.
  • Help their child engage in treatment and stay engaged.
  • Participate in treatment to accommodate the child’s changing needs.
  • Remain flexible in supporting positive changes throughout the process.
  • Refine their instincts and skills in communicating with the recovering child.
  • Learn to listen actively and with sensitivity to the child and to an elusive recovery process.
  • Recognize hidden and hard to read indicators of recovery.
  • Shepherd the recovery process to its completion.
  • Encourage the professional team to communicate with each other for purposes of case management and trouble-shooting.
  • Support the child appropriately throughout every stage of recovery, becoming more effective parents.
  • Seek professional support, consultation and coaching for themselves.

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