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5 Best Practice Tips for Treating Clients with Eating Disorders
I recently put on a training where I taught therapists who don’t specialize in eating disorders how to work with clients struggling with eating disorders and body image issues. At the end of the training, I summarized some key takeaways with a list of “Do’s and Don’ts”. Many clinicians shared that this was super helpful for them! I wanted to compile the list here for other therapists who may be interested in treating eating disorders. Presenting! My top 5 best practice tips for treating clients with eating disorders!
What causes eating disorders?
While we think of eating disorders as a modern phenomena– and at the explosive rates we see them today they certainly are– they are also brain based diseases that existed long before anyone considered being thin aspirational. Remember, food scarcity was the problem for most of human existence, so a beautiful person was historically a visibly well fed person.