The Around The Dinner Table online forum has been empowering and supporting parents since 2004: offering a 24 hour sounding board for thousands of users. This month we are holding our first annual "Plate Drive" as a fundraiser for our organization. By adding your personal messages to these plates -- created for this project by our graphic designer, Liana Mensh -- you become part of the the legacy of this organization. Your donation of at least $1 (US) for each word on the plate helps us keep the forum and F.E.A.S.T. going. We are a frugal organization - staffed by volunteers and using donated office space and materials - but need donations to pay for expenses like Internet services, telephone, insurance, and travel. By supporting this organization you show us what having this forum means to you and your family.
Anyone can participate: invite your friends and extended family to join in. Make your message anonymous or use your name. Be funny or serious. Use three words or (up to) 50. We want to hear from you and we want to include you!
Ready to add your plate?
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
My Favorite ED Recovery Related Blogs
Since the year is coming to a close, I thought I'd provide you all with links to my top 5 favorite ED Recovery blogs.
Are you "Eating With Your Anorexic?"
The blog by Laura Collins. Laura is the author of Eating with your Anorexic, moderator of the Around the Dinner Table forum, and founder of FEAST.
Blogxygen
Written by the lovey Brie! Brie, I love reading your blog and wish you and your family the best as you work on your recovery *hugs*
Eating Disorder Hope
This blog is has the absolute best contests each month! I was the lucky winner of Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life by Jenni Schaefer this year. They also provided me with some great stuff for my school packets.
Eating Disorders Coalition News and Information
The absolute best blog for following ED related legislation in Washington, D.C. I have lobbied with the EDC for three of the past four years, and can't wait to make my fourth lobby day this year!
Feed Me!
This is the blog by Harriet Brown, a very sweet lady. She is the author of Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image, one of the books I hope to profile here next year.
Are you "Eating With Your Anorexic?"
The blog by Laura Collins. Laura is the author of Eating with your Anorexic, moderator of the Around the Dinner Table forum, and founder of FEAST.
Blogxygen
Written by the lovey Brie! Brie, I love reading your blog and wish you and your family the best as you work on your recovery *hugs*
Eating Disorder Hope
This blog is has the absolute best contests each month! I was the lucky winner of Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life by Jenni Schaefer this year. They also provided me with some great stuff for my school packets.
Eating Disorders Coalition News and Information
The absolute best blog for following ED related legislation in Washington, D.C. I have lobbied with the EDC for three of the past four years, and can't wait to make my fourth lobby day this year!
Feed Me!
This is the blog by Harriet Brown, a very sweet lady. She is the author of Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image, one of the books I hope to profile here next year.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
F.E.A.S.T. Position Statement: Parents do not cause eating disorders, Families are important allies during treatment
Despite all that has been learned in the past decade that dispels old ideas about eating disorders, a lingering history of blaming parents still exists. This assumption, sometimes stated and other times just implied, harms families and recoveries. At a time when families are most needed, this implication of guilt can disable a parent from taking assertive and life-saving action.
F.E.A.S.T., an organization committed to evidence-based care and parent empowerment, calls on the treatment community and society to put a true end to the era of parent blame. Freed of this burden parents can, when professionally supported and coached, be powerful allies during treatment.
"NEDA would like to send the clear message that families are NOT responsible for eating disorders. The National Eating Disorders Association, US, January 2007
"No evidence exists to prove that families cause eating disorders." Treatment of Patients With Eating Disorders, Third Edition, APA Practice Guidelines, May 2006
"FAMILIES DO NOT CAUSE ANOREXIA NERVOSA" Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa collaboration, January 7, 2007
"For a long time the mothers have been blamed, or families have been blamed, and that's been pitiful." Lynn Grefe, National Eating Disorders Association, US.
"This is a brain disorder." Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health.
"I think traditionally, and not just traditionally I think today still a lot of providers would not see the parents as part of the solution but as part of the problem and I think that's been a pervasive attitude among a large number of clinicians in our field." Dr. Daniel le Grange, University of Chicago, US.
"Parents often have this guilt, assuming that because they were the person in charge of their offspring they may have done something wrong, but there's no evidence for that, whatsoever." Dr. Janet Treasure, Maudsley Hospital, UK.
"There are no data to support at this point that parents cause eating disorders." Lucene Wisniewski, Cleveland Center for Eating Disorders, US.
· "Parents don't cause eating disorders." Jeanine Cogan, Eating Disorders Coalition, US
· "Parents don't cause eating disorder." Professor Ivan Eisler, Kings College, London, UK
· "What parents need to know is: eating disorders are biologically based illnesses. They didn't cause it. They need to let go of that guilt." Kitty Westin, The Emily Program, US
· "Parents do not cause eating disorders. Parents suffer just as much as their kids do." Dr. Walter Kaye, University of California at San Diego, US.
If you or your organization would like to support this statement, please fill out the form on the right or contact F.E.A.S.T.
For more information on eating disorders or F.E.A.S.T. please visit our website at www.FEAST-ED.org.
Contact: Laura Collins, Executive Director, F.E.A.S.T.
+1 (540) 227-8518 info@FEAST-ED.org
F.E.A.S.T., an organization committed to evidence-based care and parent empowerment, calls on the treatment community and society to put a true end to the era of parent blame. Freed of this burden parents can, when professionally supported and coached, be powerful allies during treatment.
- Eating disorders are brain disorders, not a choice or a sign of poor parenting.
- Theories of parent causation are often based on now-outdated ideas of the illness.
- Correlation has been confused with causation for symptoms that are often genetically transmitted.
- The risk of developing an eating disorder is 50-80% genetic.
- The presence of an eating disorder or other mental illness in a family can by itself cause temporary dysfunctional reactions and interactions.
- Eating disorder patients come from every type of family, just as the general population does.
- There is no evidence to support eating disorder treatment that is based on repairing dysfunctional families.
- Care-giving families need active assistance and reassurance to do their job well.
- Eating disorder patients often suffer from temporary deficits that may distort memory and perception of family.
- Evidence-based treatment of eating disorders indicates that family empowerment and involvement is one of the most powerful tools for early intervention and improved outcomes.
- While parents do not cause eating disorders, they can be an active part of recovery.
"NEDA would like to send the clear message that families are NOT responsible for eating disorders. The National Eating Disorders Association, US, January 2007
"No evidence exists to prove that families cause eating disorders." Treatment of Patients With Eating Disorders, Third Edition, APA Practice Guidelines, May 2006
"FAMILIES DO NOT CAUSE ANOREXIA NERVOSA" Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa collaboration, January 7, 2007
"For a long time the mothers have been blamed, or families have been blamed, and that's been pitiful." Lynn Grefe, National Eating Disorders Association, US.
"This is a brain disorder." Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health.
"I think traditionally, and not just traditionally I think today still a lot of providers would not see the parents as part of the solution but as part of the problem and I think that's been a pervasive attitude among a large number of clinicians in our field." Dr. Daniel le Grange, University of Chicago, US.
"Parents often have this guilt, assuming that because they were the person in charge of their offspring they may have done something wrong, but there's no evidence for that, whatsoever." Dr. Janet Treasure, Maudsley Hospital, UK.
"There are no data to support at this point that parents cause eating disorders." Lucene Wisniewski, Cleveland Center for Eating Disorders, US.
· "Parents don't cause eating disorders." Jeanine Cogan, Eating Disorders Coalition, US
· "Parents don't cause eating disorder." Professor Ivan Eisler, Kings College, London, UK
· "What parents need to know is: eating disorders are biologically based illnesses. They didn't cause it. They need to let go of that guilt." Kitty Westin, The Emily Program, US
· "Parents do not cause eating disorders. Parents suffer just as much as their kids do." Dr. Walter Kaye, University of California at San Diego, US.
From "Do Parents Cause Eating Disorders" video interviews of eating disorder experts, October 2007
If you or your organization would like to support this statement, please fill out the form on the right or contact F.E.A.S.T.
For more information on eating disorders or F.E.A.S.T. please visit our website at www.FEAST-ED.org.
Contact: Laura Collins, Executive Director, F.E.A.S.T.
+1 (540) 227-8518 info@FEAST-ED.org
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