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Pediatric Airway Management
A video presentation on Pediatric Airway Management
Pediatric Drowning
A video presentation by Mercedes Blackstone, MD, on Pediatric Drowning
When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder: Practical Strategies to Help Your Teen Recover from Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating
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.
Eating with Your Anorexic: How My Child Recovered Through Family-Based Treatment and Yours Can Too
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.
Anorexia and other Eating Disorders: How to help your child eat well and be well
The most effective treatment for eating disorders is family-based, where parents play an essential role. Yet most struggle to know what to do and how to do it. With a wealth of practical examples and tips that have helped many tens of thousands of relieved parents, Eva Musby guides you through each stage of your son or daughter's recovery. She provides solace and confidence, while addressing the real-life questions that parents struggle with.
F.E.A.S.T. | Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders
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.
F.E.A.S.T. | First 30 Days: Transforming Parents Into Empowered Caregivers in 30 Days
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.
Brave Girl Eating
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.
Survive FBT
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.