Helpful Resources

Information about eating, anxiety, depressive and related disorders

Organizations:

Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) — a professional organization that promotes the advancement of empirically-supported behavioral and cognitive approaches to improve mental health outcomes.

F.E.A.S.T. (Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders) – a global organization which is dedicated to providing support to parents/carers of individuals with eating disorders

Academy for Eating Disorders - a professional organization that advances eating disorders research, education, prevention and treatment to the international community of eating disorder professionals.

National Center of Excellence of Eating Disorders - promotes public awareness of eating disorders and eating disorder treatment and the training of health care providers.

National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) - provides information/support to patients and carers

Training Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders - provides professional training and certification in FBT

Books for Kids and Teens:

• A Teen’s Guide to Getting Stuff Done: Discover Your Procrastination Type, Stop Putting Things Off, and Reach Your Goals

• The Worry Workbook for Teens: Effective CBT Strategies to Break the Cycle of Chronic Worry and Anxiety

• What to Do Guides for Kids (series) - workbooks that help younger children learn how to cope with OCD, social anxiety, phobias, worry, separation anxiety, sleep problems, perfectionism and more by using CBT skills

Books for Teens and Adults:

• Getting Over OCD: A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life

• I Hate Myself: Overcome Self-Loathing and Realize Why You‘re Wrong About You

• Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think

• Needing to Know for Sure: A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming Compulsive Checking and Reassurance Seeking

• Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques

• Overcoming Perfectionism: A Self-Help Guide Using Scientifically Supported Cognitive Behavioural Techniques

• The Generalized Anxiety Disorder Workbook: A Comprehensive CBT Guide for Coping with Uncertainty, Worry, and Fear

• The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven, Step-by-Step Techniques for Overcoming Your Fear

• The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It

• Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem

Eating Disorders:

• A Workbook of Acceptance Based Approaches for Weight Concerns

• Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

• Life Without ED: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too

• Overcoming Binge Eating, Second Edition: The Proven Program to Learn Why You Binge and How You Can Stop

• Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders

• The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks

• The Picky Eater‘s Recovery Book: Overcoming Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

• More Than A Body: Your Body is an Instrument, Not an Ornament 

• Treating Functional Abdominal Pain in Children: A clinical guide using Feeling and Body Investigators (FBI)

Parent resources:

• Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder

• My Kid is Back: Empowering Parents with Family-Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa Skills-based Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder

• When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder: Practical Strategies to Help Your Teen Recover from Anorexia, Bulimia & Binge Eating

• Survive FBT: Skills Manual for Parents Undertaking Family Based Treatment (FBT) for Child and Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa

• The Family Guide to Getting Over OCD: Reclaim Your Life & Help Your Loved One

• Anorexia and Other Eating Disorders: How to Help Your Child Eat Well and Be Well: Practical Solutions, Compassionate Communication Tools and Emotional Support for Parents of Children and Teenagers

• Skills-based Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder

Online resources:

• International OCD Foundation – support and Resources for diagnosis and treatment of OCD

• Anxiety Canada – comprehensive site dedicated to evidence-based information related to Anxiety Disorders

• Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) - organization that provides information/support to patients and carers

• The TLC foundation for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors – organization that helps support individuals with hair pulling, skin picking, nail biting, cheek biting, and associated behaviors

Videos, podcasts and other resources:

• Resources for parental/caregiver support - Eva Musby’s online collection of resources for parents, caregivers, and others featuring family therapy for eating disorders