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Help for Eating Disorders: A Parent's Guide to Symptoms, Causes and Treatment |
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Authors: Dr. Debra K. Katzman & Dr. Leora Phinhas
Publisher: Robert Rose
ISBN: 0778801152
Description: 
Straightforward solutions to difficult problems.
Most teenagers have a friend who has been affected by an eating
disorder. Such disorders affect almost 20% of teenage girls in North
America at some point in their development.
Magazines and
movies constantly stress a thin body image as the defining force for
popularity. The message teenagers get is that thin is the only route to
popularity and happiness.
Through the Eating Disorder Program,
Drs. Katzman and Pinhas, at The Hospital for Sick Children, have
developed a program that helps young people and their parents deal with
the problems of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia.
First, the book shows parents how to identify an eating disorder and when to become concerned about it.
Second, there is vital information for parents on how to become
informed users of the health care system and how to collaborate in
their child's treatment.
Third, practical support for parents,
family members and coaches enables them to participate in the recovery
of a child or adolescent with an eating disorder.
Worksheets, diaries and first-person case studies assists parents and caregivers to help youth overcome an eating disorder.
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Anatomy of Anorexia |
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Author: Steven Levonkron
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393321010
Description: Anatomy of Anorexia
is a tremendous tool for families: now more than ever, early diagnosis
and treatment, and family participation, are crucial in helping the
anorexic. Preeminent therapist Steven Levenkron demystifies this
life-threatening disease and shows how the millions of girls and women
who are afflicted with anorexia can be helped--and can look forward to
rich and productive lives.
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Faded Denim (Christian faith-based) |
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Author: Melody Carson
Publisher: Th1nk Books
ISBN: 1576835375
Description: Seventeen-year-old
Emily feels like a chubby plain Jane. It seems like Leah, her best
friend since middle school, has turned into a beauty queen overnight.
Leah is considering a modeling career, and Emily's secret crush Brett
has even asked Leah to the prom. When Leah takes Emily along on her
first photo shoot and starts talking about having breast-reduction
surgery, Emily feels uglier than ever. Somehow, snacking on junk food
seems to ease the pain. As a Christian, Emily knows "inner beauty" is
more important than physical appearances, but frankly she is starting
to hate herself. Leah hatches a plan to give Emily a long-term makeover
and encourages her to start a reasonable exercise and diet plan. It's
slow-going and frustrating. As school comes to an end, Leah's aunt
announces her plans to send Leah to send to a two-week modeling school
in Chicago, but her father will not allow her to go unless Emily agrees
to go with her. Two days before the school begins, Emily is dismayed to
see she's lost only three pounds. The modeling school isn't as
horrible as Emily expects, mostly because the skinny chicks seem to
accept her, and they are willing to share their diet secrets, which are
far more extreme than Leah's. But they are effective! Energized by the
speedy results, Emily soon finds herself on a weight-loss slide she
can't seem to stop. Later that summer, the friends work as church-camp
counselors for a bunch of mean girls, and Emily's physical health
begins to decline. Leah has a cosmetic surgery that goes terribly awry.
Together they must find their way back to a godly understanding of what
it means to be truly beautiful.
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Girls Under Pressure |
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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher: Corgi Childrens
ISBN: 0552551325
Description: Ellie
is frantic. Her two best friends seem to be living life in the fast
lane while she putters along the curb. Glamorous blond Magda has got a
thousand cute boys buzzing around her, and Goth girl Nadine has just
been asked to take part in a national teen modeling contest. All Ellie
has are massive panic attacks about her weight. So she decides to go on
a diet. But instead of counting calories, Ellie just tries to stop
eating altogether. Soon she's starving, miserable, and lying all the
time to her friends and family. Luckily, a frightening encounter with a
real anorectic, and an encouraging dose of art history from a handsome
new teacher ("Beauty is just fashion. Male artists have used beautiful
women throughout the centuries but their sizes and proportions keep
changing") help Ellie realize that size is just a state of mind.
In
this second installment of the Girls trilogy, fabulous British author
Jacqueline Wilson keeps her trademark funny bone firmly in place while
simultaneously raising some sobering questions about issues like eating
disorders and teens' overemphasis on appearance. Despite the laughs,
Ellie very nearly lapses into anorexia, Magda gets a scare when her
chronic flirting almost leads to date rape, and Nadine realizes that
the modeling business could care less about her
individuality or intellect. Wrapping serious messages in a sugary
comical coating is always the best way to make the medicine go down.
Recommended for those teen female readers who want something both funny
and filling. (Ages 12 and older)
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