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Eating Disorders

Friday's Progress Notes - January 26, 2001
Mental Health Information - Vol. 5 Issue 3
Published by athealth.com - http://www.athealth.com

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CONTENTS

1. Practice guideline for the treatment of eating disorders
2. Breaking bad habits
3. Female athletes and disordered eating
4. Encouraging young teens to make positive choices
5. Building self-esteem
6. Treating binge eating disorder
7. PBS special on eating disorders
8. Coping with emotional eating


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1. AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Eating Disorders
The APA practice guideline, revised in 2006, organizes the discussion of treatment around such issues as weight and physiologic concerns, eating disorder behavior, eating disorder attitudes and cognition, and special populations.
http://www.psychiatryonline.com/pracGuide/pracGuideHome.aspx

2. IMPACT PUBLISHERS
Kicking Your Old Habits
Regardless of the nature of the habits, the technique of habit reversal usually works very well in breaking them.
http://www.athealth.com/consumer/disorders/badhabits.html

3. AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN
The Female Athlete Triad
The female athlete triad is a combination of three interrelated conditions that are associated with athletic training: disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis.
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000601/3357.html

4. US DEPTARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
BodyWise Handbook
The BodyWise initiative was developed to provide school personnel and other adults interacting with students ages 9 to 12 with the information and encouragement needed to create environments, policies, and programs that discourage disordered eating.
http://www.athealth.com/consumer/disorders/bodyimage.html

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5. SAMHSA
Building Self-Esteem: A Self-Help Guide
Low self-esteem is a constant companion for too many people, especially those who experience depression, anxiety, phobias, psychosis, delusional thinking, or who have an illness or a disability.

6. MEDSCAPE
No Single Answer to Treating Binge Eating Disorder
Binge eating, without compensatory anti-obesity behaviors of any type, has only recently been accepted as a distinct psychiatric condition. (Free Medscape registration is required.)

7. NOVA ONLINE
Dying to Be Thin
This is the companion Web site to the recent PBS television broadcast on eating disorders.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/thin/

8. IMPACT PUBLISHERS
Are You an Emotional Eater? Tips to Cope With the Cravings
Emotional eating happens any time you eat not because you are physically hungry but because you have feelings of boredom, depression, loneliness, fear, anger or frustration.
http://www.athealth.com/consumer/disorders/eatinghabits.html


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