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	Do You Have an Eating Disorder?
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	What is 'Better': Chocolate milk and more
	Recovery: A Matter of the Heart
	Celebrating our 10-Year Anniversary at Center for Change
	Therapy Insights in Treating Binge Eating Disorder
	Intuitive Eating to Treat Eating Disorders at Center for Change

Eating Disorder Facts

Eating Disorder Characteristics

Physiological Characteristics and Medical Complications Anorexic and Bulimic patients put their bodies at risk of severe me. . .
Written By: Author Unknown

Facts About Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are characterized by severe disturbances in eating behavior. This section includes two specific diagnoses, Bulimia Nervosa and Anorex. . .
Written By: Author Unknown

Facts and Figures

* The average American woman is 5'4", weighs 140 lbs., and wears a size 14 dress. * The "ideal" woman-portrayed by models, Miss America, Barbie dolls. . .
Written By: Council on Size & Weight Discrimination

Decreasing the Mystery of Emotions

Eating Disorders and the Avoidance of Emotions "I'm so scared." "What do I do?" "What do I do with these feelings building up inside of me?" "How do. . .
Written By: Espra L. Andrus, LCSW

The Magic of Allowing Imperfection: A Family Therapy Intervention for Eating Disorders

Few parents try to "mess up their kids." Nevertheless, "parental guilt" is almost universal. It is probably safe to say that, for most parents, to h. . .
Written By: Kip Rasmussen, PhD MFT

Social Support: The Cradle for Growth and Recovery with Eating Disorders

Social Support: The Cradle in Which Growth and Recovery Take Place by Michael E. Berrett, PhD It was 1970. I learned at a young adolescent age to ap. . .
Written By: Michael E. Berrett, PhD

Eating Disorder Treatment Questions and Answers

The following three questions were asked of professionals who were presenting at a recent Center for Change Training Conference on Eating Disorders.. . .
Written By: Michael E. Berrett, PhD

Battling Our Bodies: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Body Images

How often do you look in the mirror and say “If I could just lose ten pounds, then I would be happy”? Unfortunately, the majority of American women . . .
Written By: Nicole Hawkins, PhD

Therapy Insights in Treating Binge Eating Disorder

Center for Change is committed to ongoing research . . .
Written By: By Kimberly Crossley, LCSW and Wendy Jensen, LCSW

Friends/Family/You

Team Up for Teens: Guidlines for Treating Adolescents with Eating Disorders

When approaching the important and humbling task of treating teenagers with eating disorders, it is important to understand a) the urgency about thi. . .
Written By: Michael E. Berrett, Ph.D.

Food for Thought - Worry Chart

I heard of a businessman who drew up what he called a "Worry Chart," in which he kept a record of his worries. He discovered that 40% of them were a. . .
Written By: Author Unknown

The 12-step Program at Center for Change

A former patient stated: "I wanted to go to a treatment center that addressed all aspects of my eating disorder — my mind, body, emotions, and you k. . .
Written By: Bobbi Carter

The Neglected Addiction: Binge Eating

Mary is 47, lonely, socially phobic about relationships, and weighs 525 lbs. She is constantly dieting, having tried numerous diet plans. She is obs. . .
Written By: Paul Harper, Ph.D.

Anorexia and Bulimia - How Family & Friends Can Help

An Eating Disorder - What Happens Now? When you realize that someone you love may be struggling with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, n. . .
Written By: Paul Harper, Ph.D.

Using Creative Strategies to Reach Sexually Traumatized Clients Who Engage in Eating Disorders

As I worked with my client in therapy, we reviewed once again how her efforts to deal with her sexual abuse eventually led to her eating disorder. Th. . .
Written By: Melissa K. Taylor, MS, LMFT

Battling Our Bodies — Understanding and Overcoming Negative Body Images

How often do you look in the mirror and say “If I could just lose ten pounds, then I would be happy”? Unfortunately, the majority of American women . . .
Written By: Nicole Hawkins, Ph.D.

A Recovery Program for Women Who Suffer from Eating Disorders

Program Overview Planning for Success Center for Change is a private inpatient treatment facility for adolescent and . . .
Written By: Nicole Hawkins, Ph.D.

Eating Disorders: The Internalization of the Thin Body Ideal

Research over the last two decades has indicated that the incidence of eating disorders appears to be increasing. Heal. . .
Written By: by Nicole Hawkins, Ph.D.

The Compulsive Eating Program

For a More Fulfilled Life "Hunger comes in many varieties and each requires the proper kind of nourishment to be satisfied. Trying to fill emot. . .
Written By: Paul Harper, PhD

Towards an Understanding of Self-esteem and Eating Disorders

During a session with a client who has long suffered with an eating disorder I was discussing what it would be like if she could feel positive abo. . .
Written By: Melissa H. Smith, MA, NCC

Do You Have an Eating Disorder?

ANOREXIA NERVOSA ANORECTICS restrict their caloric intake for long periods of time and deliberately starve themselves, resulting in loss of bod. . .
Written By: Kim Lampson Reiff, PhD

Eating Disorders and the Holidays

For most people, the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season is a wonderful time of year. It is often a time of family reunion and celebration, wh. . .
Written By: Randy K. Hardman, Ph.D.

Eating Disorder Recovery - A Spiritual Perspective

Women who suffer from eating disorders battle intense emotions and inner conflicts that negatively impact their recovery. For many of these wo. . .
Written By: Randy K. Hardman, Ph.D. and Michael E. Berrett, Ph.D.

Listening to the Heart

One of the sad consequences for women who suffer with eating disorders is that through the course and development of the eating disorder, they often. . .
Written By: Randy K. Hardman, PhD

For the Loved Ones of Those with Eating Disorders

Clinical Advice One of the most difficult tasks any of us face is watching the struggle and suffering of those we love. It is especiall. . .
Written By: Michael E. Berrett, PhD

Intuitive Eating: Relearning How to Eat for Life

OBJECTIVE: The objective of teaching intuitive eating to the eating disorder sufferer is to return the patient to a time when they ate . . .
Written By: Rebekah Mardis RD, CD

Risk Taking is Free

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool To weep is to risk appearing sentimental To reach out for another is to risk involvement To expose feeling i. . .
Written By: Author Unkonwn

What Spring and Summer Bring

Summer is coming. What does that mean to you? Is it the renewal of life, warmer and longer days, wonderful smells and beautiful colors, playing outdoo. . .
Written By: Julie B. Clark, PhD

The Parent/Child Weight Issue

Orem, Utah -- One common question I get as a dietitian from family, friends, and people whom I meet at presentations, is "How much should I weigh?" I . . .
Written By: Jennifer Forest, Nutritionist

One at a Time

A friend of ours was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he grew near. . .
Written By: Jack Canfield and Mark V. Hansen

The Role of the Educator

Some "DON’Ts" for educators and other people concerned about a person with an Eating Disorder 1) Don’t cast a net of awe and wonder around the exis. . .
Written By: Michael Levine, PhD

Treatment Cost Analysis: One Patient’s Experience

As the cost of health care increases, therapists, hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare related companies are struggling with justifying costs and . . .
Written By: Center for Change

Exploring The Relationship Between Eating Disorders & Academic Education

by T. O. Paul Harper, Ph.D., Education Director An eating disorder victim’s body is not the only thing being wasted as a result of his or her food,. . .
Written By: T. O. Paul Harper, Ph.D., Education Director

A Dentist’s Perspective on Diagnosing Eating Disorders

During the past year I have had a couple of patients present with some interesting health problems. Of course, the reason they were in my chair was to. . .
Written By: John M. Farley, DDS

Experiential Art as Therapy for Women Suffering with Eating Disorders

Art can be used as a powerful therapy to help a woman recover from an eating disorder. In the process of creating her own art, she must part. . .
Written By: Kathleen Slade Hofer, MS TRS

Hunger in a Person Experiencing an Eating Disorder

The scale described below is as follows: 0 =no hunger 2.5 =minimal hunger 5 = moderate hunger 7.5 =moderatel. . .
Written By: Rebekah Mardis, RD, CD

Exercise... What kind of shape are you getting yourself in?

As the Olympics begin and we see the dedicated athletes run, jump, or swim across our television screens, it raises an interesting question related . . .
Written By: Calene Van Noy, RD, CD

Family Therapy for Clients with Eating Disorders

Although the origins of eating disorders are complex and multifaceted, the family can be one of the most important means to intervene in the lives of . . .
Written By: Kipling Rasmussen, PhD

Music Therapy: An Innovative Approach in the Treatment of Clients With Eating Disorders

Many of you probably use music therapeutically on a daily basis without even realizing it. How many of you listen to music that is more upbeat. . .
Written By: Lynette L. Taylor, MT-BC

Recreation Therapy for Women Suffering with Eating Disorders

Quality of life is intimately associated with leisure experience and opportunities for self-development and self-expression. Play, recreation, and lei. . .
Written By: Kathleen Hofer, MSTRS

Dance/Movement Therapy at Center for Change

The American Dance Therapy Association defines dance/movement therapy as "the psychotherapeutic use of movement as a process which furthers the emotio. . .
Written By: Laraine Miner, MS, LPC

Over-Scheduling as Self-Harm

It's difficult to convince clients with eating disorders that there is a limit to how little food they can eat and still live. Almost as diffi. . .
Written By: Kipling Rasmussen, PhD

Listen to Your Body

Life is precious and fragile. Through the senses of your body, you have a unique experience of life. As a child you lived in the momen. . .
Written By: Rebekah Mardis RD

Eating-Disorder “Proofing” Your Home

There is no sure way of ridding your home of everything that triggers an eating disorder. However, there are ways to help make your home a saf. . .
Written By: The Staff at Center for Change

When the Road to Recovery is Full of Potholes

You seem to be sailing along with the wind in your hair and then bam! – you fall into a pothole. Finding yourself engaging in the same eating disord. . .
Written By: Julie B. Clark, PhD

Twelve Ideas to Help Women with Eating Disorders Negotiate Thanksgiving and Christmas

Compiled by Michael E. Berrett, Ph.D. Eat regularly and in some kind of reasonable pattern. Avoid "preparing for the last supper." Don’t skip meals. . .
Written By: the Center for Change Inpatient Treatment Team

Hope for the Hopeless - Depression and Eating Disorders

Approximately 80% of all severe cases involving anorexia or bulimia have a coexisting major depression diagnosis. Depression is a very painful and a. . .
Written By: Randy K. Hardman, PhD

Decreasing the Mystery of Emotions

Eating Disorders and the Avoidance of Emotions "I'm so scared." "What do I do?" "What do I do with these feelings building up inside of me?" "How do. . .
Written By: Espra L. Andrus, LCSW

A Commitment to Change

Change! What does it really mean to me? What makes me want to change, and why? Is it permanent? These are a few of the questions that I have been as. . .
Written By: Heather Watts

Listening to the Heart (with Artwork)

Broken Hearts This heart is covered by a dark cloud with empty space around the heart. This is a heart o. . .
Written By: Randy K. Hardman

The Magic of Allowing Imperfection: A Family Therapy Intervention for Eating Disorders

Few parents try to "mess up their kids." Nevertheless, "parental guilt" is almost universal. It is probably safe to say that, for most parents, to h. . .
Written By: Kip Rasmussen, PhD MFT

Center for Change: Complete and Comprehensive Treatment for Eating Disorders

Announcing a new Program opening in September 2003 as an expansion to the current Inpatient Program. "We offer the most complete and comprehensive. . .
Written By: Kip Rasmussen, PhD MFT

Social Support: The Cradle for Growth and Recovery with Eating Disorders

Social Support: The Cradle in Which Growth and Recovery Take Place by Michael E. Berrett, PhD It was 1970. I learned at a young adolescent age to ap. . .
Written By: Michael E. Berrett, PhD

Experiencing Change

All of us learn by discussing principles and by actually experiencing the impact of these principles. Understan. . .
Written By: Kara Ohlsen CTRS, TRS

Intuitive Exercise

Intuitive Exercise by Nancy Hieber, RD and Michael E. Berrett, PhD Intuition is that inner sense which can guide our lives and what we do, not o. . .
Written By: Micheal E. Berrett, PhD

Dearest Women and Young Women

I want you to know that I believe in you and your great strength. I believe in your recovery and your ability to recover. We have been given a great. . .
Written By: Jenn Smith

When Difficulties Arise..."Hang in There"

Difficulties arise in the lives of us all. What is most important is dealing with the hard times, coping with the changes, and getting through to th. . .
Written By: Gina Maria Paulina

In the Arms of Angels

"In the arms of an angel, may you find some comfort here." To borrow words from a favorite song, Center for Change is full of angels. When. . .
Written By: Laura Johnson

CFC Girls and Treatment Team

I have realized more than ever that I am responsible for my personal well-being. Listening to my heart allows me to find myself and my passions in l. . .
Written By: Taryn Nielson

Everything Changes

When a child comes into this world, there is nothing more wonderful. You love them from that very first moment. You spend your whole life taking car. . .
Written By: Mary & Cory Webster

Suggestions to Help Anyone with and Eating Disorder "Get Through" the Holiday Season a Little Better

These suggestions and ideas come from women at Center for Change who are currently engaged in treatment for an eating disorder and are at various st. . .
Written By: Mary & Cory Webster

Eating Disorder Treatment Questions and Answers

The following three questions were asked of professionals who were presenting at a recent Center for Change Training Conference on Eating Disorders.. . .
Written By: Mary & Cory Webster

Dilemmas for Parenting Amid the Social Pressures of Eating Disorders

The World of Those With Eating Disorders The first thing to understand about eating disorders is that they are extremely difficult to grasp and tr. . .
Written By: Kip Rasmussen, PhD

A Clear Look at Center for Change

When a family member is suffering with the unrelenting effects of an eating . . .
Written By: Kip Rasmussen, PhD

Getting Practical: Using Life Skills in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Supporting New Beliefs, Emotions . . .
Written By: T.O. Paul Harper, Ph.D.

Perfectionism and Eating Disorders: The Pedestal With A Cage - A Guide for Parents and Families

I once heard it said that when you reach the top of the pedestal, you will find there, a cage. What brings one to the top of a pedestal is some form . . .
Written By: Diane Starks, LCSW

You can enjoy FOOD!

Information taken from . . .
Written By: Evelyn Tribole M.S., R.D. and Elyse Resech, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A.

Limiting Dependency

One of the most common dangers therapists are faced with is dependency. If a therapist helps a person to overcome a problem or conquer an addiction, . . .
Written By: Kara Lowe, CTRS, TRS

Life Changes: The View of a Care Giver

Early last summer I took a job at Center for Change, a treatment center for women with eating disorders. This is not a direction I thought my life wo. . .
Written By: Julie Johnson, Care Technician at Center For Change

Eating Disorders: Through the Eyes of a Care Tech

I never realized how much control an eating disorder can have on an individual until I lived with someone suffering from one. With secret binges, con. . .
Written By: Lindsay Lovell, Care Technician

Fighting the Battle with Depression and Hopelessness

In this day and age, it is easy to become depressed, and lose hope. For those who struggle with depression, it is a very real thing. The feelings that. . .
Written By: Emily A. Washburn, Recreation Therapist

Diet is Out

Dieting as a Precursor to Eating Disorders Dieting may not be the cause of eating disorders, but it is often a precursor. The National Eating. . .
Written By: Alice Covey

Intuitive Eating to Treat Eating Disorders at Center for Change

Since first teaching its concepts in 1999, Center for Change has been a pioneer in using the concept of “intuitive eating” (based off of I. . .
Written By: Kim Passmore

Battling Our Bodies: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Body Images

How often do you look in the mirror and say “If I could just lose ten pounds, then I would be happy”? Unfortunately, the majority of American women . . .
Written By: Nicole Hawkins, PhD

Therapy Insights in Treating Binge Eating Disorder

Center for Change is committed to ongoing research . . .
Written By: By Kimberly Crossley, LCSW and Wendy Jensen, LCSW

Celebrating our 10-Year Anniversary at Center for Change

"Celebrating our 10-Year Anniversary at Center for Change" . . .
Written By: By Kimberly Crossley, LCSW and Wendy Jensen, LCSW

Recovery: A Matter of the Heart

I would like to share a . . .
Written By: Randy K. Hardman, Ph.D.

What is 'Better': Chocolate milk and more

My motto these days seems to be, “It gets better.” Even though my struggle with food and weight actually got worse before it got better, it did get . . .
Written By: Jenni Schaefer

Tamagotchi and Eating Disorder Treatment

Did you know that by playing an electronic game you could learn about life? One of the hottest holiday items this year is the Tamagotchi electronic. . .
Written By: Elayne McArthur

Insurance

Managed Care

From the Therapist's Chair Editor's Note: "From the Therapist's Chair" is intended to be a forum for professionals in the field. We invite you to f. . .
Written By: APA

Professionals

Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa - Diagnosis & Treatment Guide for Professionals

A Potential Safety Net Medical Doctor, Minister/Clergy, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, School Nurse, Dietitian, Dentist, Orthodontist, Social W. . .
Written By:

A Recovery Program for Women Who Suffer from Eating Disorders

Program Overview Planning for Success Center for Change is a private inpatient treatment facility for adolescent and . . .
Written By:

The Compulsive Eating Program

For a More Fulfilled Life "Hunger comes in many varieties and each requires the proper kind of nourishment to be satisfied. Trying to fill emot. . .
Written By: Paul Harper, PhD

Increasing Structure in Outpatient Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia

Outpatient Structures Eating disorders can be difficult to treat in outpatient therapy. One reason for this difficulty is the. . .
Written By: Michael E. Berrett, Ph.D. , Julie B. Clark-Sly, Ph.D. and Randy K. Hardman, Ph.D.

School, Eating Disorders, and Academic Achievement: A Formula For Failure

Most parents don’t like to watch their children suffer. When parents encounter a suffering son or daughter they become solution-oriented, looking for . . .
Written By: T.O. Paul Harper, PhD and Randy K. Hardman, PhD

The Role of the Educator

Some "DON’Ts" for educators and other people concerned about a person with an Eating Disorder 1) Don’t cast a net of awe and wonder around the exis. . .
Written By: Michael Levine, PhD

A Physicians's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia

In an attempt to help physicians and other professionals better recognize and identify those people who are successfully hiding an eating disorder, we. . .
Written By: Randy K. Hardman, PhD

Assessment for Eating Disorders

Center for Change desires to help any professional who is trying to help those who suffer with anorexia or bulimia. The following comprehensiv. . .
Written By: Michael E. Berrett, PhD

Social Support: The Cradle for Growth and Recovery with Eating Disorders

Social Support: The Cradle in Which Growth and Recovery Take Place by Michael E. Berrett, PhD It was 1970. I learned at a young adolescent age to ap. . .
Written By: Michael E. Berrett, PhD

Therapeutic Guidelines and Experiential Interventions in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

In this article we describe general guidelines &. . .
Written By: Randy K. Hardmna, PhD and Michael E. Berrett, PhD

Therapy Insights in Treating Binge Eating Disorder

Center for Change is committed to ongoing research . . .
Written By: By Kimberly Crossley, LCSW and Wendy Jensen, LCSW

Tamagotchi and Eating Disorder Treatment

Did you know that by playing an electronic game you could learn about life? One of the hottest holiday items this year is the Tamagotchi electronic. . .
Written By: Elayne McArthur

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