Ethics Consultation Service
When you face an ethical dilemma concerning your child's care, our staff can help. We are available to support you and the healthcare team as you work together to make important decisions about your child's treatment.
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When you face an ethical dilemma concerning your child's care, our staff can help. We are available to support you and the healthcare team as you work together to make important decisions about your child's treatment.
Patients and families have asked how they can show their appreciation to CHOP. Personal gifts are never expected, and CHOP policy does not allow staff to accept personal gifts. There are many ways for families to give back. Learn how.
This guide for families shares helpful information about issues that may arise when families are using social media to connect with CHOP staff members. Learn more.
Families often want to capture their child’s CHOP journey by taking photos or videos. The Department of Medical Ethics offers helpful guidance around patient and staff privacy at CHOP when taking photos or videos. Follow these guidelines.
If your teen has an eating disorder—such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating—you may feel helpless, worried, or uncertain about how you can best support them. That’s why you need real, proven-effective strategies you can use right away. Whether used in conjunction with treatment or on its own, this book offers an evidence-based approach you can use now to help your teen make healthy choices and stay well in body and mind.
This poignant and informative narrative relates how one mother rescued her daughter from the "experts" and treated the girl's life-threatening anorexia using a controversial approach. Known as the Maudsley Approach, this home-based, family-centered therapy, developed in Great Britain in the 1980s, has been receiving a lot of press here over the past few years.
F.E.A.S.T. walks alongside families as they navigate the challenges of their loved one’s eating disorder. We provide parents and caregivers with transformative peer support, education, empowerment, and community through a multitude of top-notch free programs and services.
FEAST 30 Days is an innovative and unique program designed to educate and empower parents and caregivers of people with eating disorders. Participants will receive one lesson per day, delivered to their inbox, over the course of 30 days.
In BRAVE GIRL EATING Harriet Brown describes how her family, with the support of an open-minded pediatrician and a therapist, helped her daughter recover from anorexia using a family-based treatment developed at the Maudsley Hospital in London.
Parents have desperately asked for more information to help them understand anorexia’s grip on their child and to survive the intensity of the treatment. This book was written to give these parents the tools to help them “see it through” to the end.