If Your Adolescent Has an Eating Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents

This guide to understanding and helping a teenager with an eating disorder is designed for parents of teens at-risk or recently diagnosed, and for other adults, such as teachers and guidance counselors. The book combines the latest science--including the newest treatments and most up-to-date research findings--with case examples and the practical wisdom of parents raising teens with eating disorders. Complete with red flags to look out for, advice on how to handle everyday life, warnings on the dangers of doing nothing, and a comprehensive list of additional resources, this book will help parents and other adults face and deal effectively with adolescent eating disorders before they become life-threatening.

B. Timothy Walsh, MD graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, and has been on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry of Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons for over four decades. The primary focus of his research is eating disorders. Over the course of his career, he has published more than two hundred papers and received numerous grant awards from the National Institutes of Health. He has served as President of both of the major international eating disorders associations, and chaired the Eating Disorders Work Group for both DSM-IV and DSM-5. He has received awards from the American Psychiatric Association, the Academy for Eating Disorders, the National Eating Disorders Association, and the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies.

Deborah R. Glasofer, PhD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at the Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University and clinical psychologist at the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is involved in research on eating disorders, and provides instruction and supervision for psychiatry residents, post-doctoral fellows, and other trainees in cognitive behavioral therapy for mood, anxiety, and eating disorders. She served as an editor for the Handbook of Assessment and Treatment of Eating Disorders, co-authored What Everyone Needs to Know: Eating Disorders, has written for Scientific American Mind, Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, Verywell, and The Feed, and can be followed on Twitter at @drglasofer.