How to Help Someone with an Eating Disorder: A Practical Handbook

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Struggling to help someone you love as they battle an eating disorder? This book will arm you with the knowledge, understanding and skills you need to be able to help your loved one towards recovery. Psychologist and eating disorder specialist Dr Pamela Macdonald has been working with carers for over a decade. Here, she uses the established New Maudsley Approach, an evidence-based therapy toolkit which equips carers with the communication skills they need to best help their loved one. Dr Macdonald has personal experience of the effects that an eating disorder can have on the entire family and strongly believes that carers and parents are a crucial element to the recovery process.

Pamela Macdonald, PhD, is a research psychologist, coach and trainer. She has been a member of the research team at the Institute of Psychiatry since 2006 and is actively involved in supporting carers of people with eating disorders using the principles of motivational interviewing and in the supervision of carers in becoming peer mentors to other carers. She is currently based in Edinburgh.