Supporting and caring for a loved one experiencing an eating disorder can be challenging and distressing. This page includes resources to help family, friends, and caregivers better understand disordered eating and support their loved ones and themselves. Disordered eating can affect an individual regardless of gender, size, weight, shape, or skin color.
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- How others can help (Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T.) website)
- 10 Actions for Caregivers of people with eating disorders (Academy for Eating Disorders, PDF)
- Ten Things I Want Parents to Know, English and Spanish (Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T.) website)
- 30 Days of Information for Parents (Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T.) website)
- A program designed to educate and empower parents and caregivers of people with eating disorders. Sign up to receive one lesson per day, delivered to your inbox, for 30 days.
- Medical Care Standards for Eating Disorders Guide, available in many languages (Academy for Eating Disorders website)
- A resource for medical and behavioral health professionals to diagnose eating disorders more promptly and to help guide essential medical interventions.
- Busting the Myths about Eating Disorders (National Eating Disorders Association website)
- Eating Disorder Risk Factors (National Eating Disorders Association website)
- Warning Signs and Symptoms (National Eating Disorder Association website)
- How to Help a Loved One with an Eating Disorder (National Eating Disorders Association website)
- What CAN Parents Do to Help? (Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T.) website)
- Encouraging a Loved One to Seek Professional Help (National Eating Disorder Association website)
- Self-Care for Caregivers of People with Eating Disorders (National Eating Disorder Association website)
- Informational Toolkit for Parents (National Eating Disorders Association (National Eating Disorders website, PDF)
- Access information on how to get help, understand what types of treatment are available and effective, navigate insurance issues, and more.
- Types of Eating Disorder Treatment and Levels of Care (National Alliance of Eating Disorders website)
- Eating Disorders Can Be Any Color (Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T.) website)
- Bias and Eating Disorders (Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T.) website)
- Bias can prevent or delay diagnosis and effective treatment.
- Warning Signs of Eating Disorders (Project HEAL website)
- Eating Disorder Awareness Starts With Understanding (Project HEAL website)
- Eating Disorder Myths: What You Need to Know (Project HEAL website)
- Eating Disorders 101 and 201 for Community Members, Providers, School Professionals, and Caregivers (Eating Recovery Center website)
- School Support Resources for Parents of Children and Teens with Anorexia and Other Eating Disorders (Anorexia Family website)
- Family Guide Series: Resources regarding eating disorder diagnosis, available in English, Spanish, Chinese, German, Ukrainian, Slovak (Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T.) website)
- Fuera Anorexia, Spanish (WordPress)
- Guías gratis, Spanish (Anorexia family website)
- Skills – Parent Traps What parents and caregivers wish they had known at the start of their loved one’s treatment (CARED website)
- Call It as You See It: Advice to Parents whose child has an eating disorder (The Feed blog website)
- A Parent Guide to Medical Complications of Eating Disorders (Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T.) website)
- Peer Connection and Support: Around the Dinner Table Forum An online community of parents of eating disorder patients around the world (Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T.) website)
- When Your Sibling Has An Eating Disorder: Tips for siblings of people with an eating disorder (Eating Disorders Victoria website)
- A Seat at the Table: Supporting Siblings of Eating Disorder Patients (Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T.) website)
- Academy for Eating Disorders website
- Alimentación Conectada website
- Anorexia Family website
- Association for Size Diversity and Health website
- Cared Scotland website
- Eating Disorders Victoria website
- Eating Recovery Center website
- Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T.) website
- Fuera Anorexia website
- National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders website
- National Eating Disorders Association website
- Project HEAL website
- The Eating Disorder Foundation website
- The Feed website