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As we mentioned last month, Gürze has started a Book Club on EatingDisordersBlogs.com, and we are pleased to announce that the first book is This Mean Disease by Daniel Becker. Everyone in the office has their reading glasses on, so be sure to get a copy of your own and share your thoughts with us on the Book Club Blog!
Need more Gürze catalogues? Let us know, because we have plenty! The 2007 Eating Disorder Resource Catalogue is a great resource, with features like free articles, more than 25 new books, and a treatment facility index. Order your extra copies below.
If you haven't checked out the For Professionals page on Bulimia.com lately, then you've been missing some excellent, free information. We have numerous clinical and professional articles, patient handouts, links to conferences and continuing education credits, a speakers bureau, and recommended books.
 Book Club has officially started and the first book is This Mean Disease by Daniel Becker. In this memoir, Daniel describes his mother's 30-year struggle with anorexia. Told from a unique perspective, this book provides an intimate portrayal of the secrecy surrounding his mother's illness-and how it creates a shadow over the family that grows over time. Daniel will be hosting the Book Club on EatingDisordersBlogs.com, where he will be taking questions, leading discussions, and providing insights behind the content of the book. This book will run through the end of June, so you have plenty of time to purchase and read it. To purchase This Mean Disease click here.
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New! This highly anticipated book from eating disorder expert Carolyn Costin is a must for anyone seeking answers to the confusing world of ED's.
100 Questions and Answers About Eating Disorders
Carolyn Costin
160 pg, paper, '07 (Code: OQA) $18.95 |
In this straightforward reference guide, Costin, a prolific writer and therapist with more than 20 years of experience in treating eating disorders, provides clear, in-depth answers to 100 often-asked questions on a wide range of pertinent topics. These are organized into ten sections, including general facts, medical issues, causes, getting help, treatment considerations, guidelines for loved ones, and prevention. A valuable resource for sufferers, loved ones and students.
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Just Arrived! This best-selling book with quotes from the patients and staff of Remuda Ranch is finally back in print and improved with a new format.
Beyond the Looking Glass- Daily Devotions for Overcoming Anorexia & Bulimia
Staff & Patients at Remuda Ranch
365 pg, paper, '07 (Code: BTL) $16.99 |
This Christian devotional combines personal insights short prayers, and biblical quotations to create a supportive and encouraging tool for individuals recovering from anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Contains words of encouragement for every day of the year.
"During my treatment for anorexia, I learned that even in the midst of emotional pain, my feet can be planted firmly on the Rock. I made a choice to stop fighting God and wait on Him. He not only lifted me up, but He also filled me with the joy of music again!"
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Regaining Your Self- Breaking Free from the Eating Disorder Identity
Ira M. Sacker with Sheila Buff
240 pg, hard, '06 (Code: RYS) $24.95 |
Dr. Sacker presents a breakthrough model called persona interactive rational therapy (PIRT), which is a method for opening yourself to the void that has been masked by the eating disorder. By discovering something else to fill that void- some passionate interest rooted in your own personality and talents- the eating disorder is ultimately replaced. Includes first-hand accounts from patients, family members, friends and others.
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 If your first shipment is running low, if you haven't ordered any yet, or if you simply need more of this wonderful FREE resource, let us know! Blue cards will be arriving in your mailbox soon; keep an eye out. We ship the catalogues free, so be sure to stock up!
For catalogues contact amy@gurze.net. In your email include the quantity of catalogues you need (1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200), your name, and address. Either send an email or mail back a blue card; please
don't fill out both unless you want double the catalogues!
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SIERRA TUCSON
Tucson, AZ
1-800-842-4487
www.SierraTucson.com
Christi Cessna, M.S., Director of Marketing & Intake |
The internationally recognized Eating Disorders Program at Sierra Tucson provides a full integrative approach to treat body, mind, and spirit for men and women suffering from anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder/compulsive overeating, and coexisting conditions. A stepped dietary program decreases initial side effects of beginning a normal diet. Patients are quickly engaged in treatment with the help of herbal and vitamin supplements to increase energy, enhance digestion and absorption of nutrients, balance mood, and ease difficulties with sleep. Individualized treatment plans include consultations for fitness, spiritual, grief, abuse, and sexual issues. Sierra Tucson incorporates a wide range of effective therapies such as DBT Skills training, Equine-Assisted Therapy, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing®, and various mind-body therapies. Aftercare is emphasized through the practical use of a demo kitchen and restaurant outing. A dynamic 4-day Family Program is included with each person's treatment to enhance long-term recovery and extend healing to the family. Accredited by JCAHO.
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RIVER OAKS
New Orleans, LA
1-800-366-1740
www.riveroakshospital.com
Clinical Director: Susan Willard, LCSW
Medical Director: George Daul, MD |
The Eating Disorders Treatment Center at River Oaks Hospital in New Orleans is thriving since re-opening after Hurricane Katrina. Treatment is offered for adolescents and adults, females and males. Nutritional and psychological issues are addressed in a safe, nurturing, healing environment. Individuals from all over the U.S. seek treatment for their eating disorders on the intensive, comprehensive inpatient unit at River Oaks.
Staff members consistently guide and support patients in developing a healthy relationship with food, body, self and others, based on empowerment and self-responsibility. Patients are enabled to work through the conflicts and problems underlying their eating disorders so that the actual causes of their symptoms can be identified, addressed and relieved. The medical treatment goal is to restore normal weight and/or eradicate unhealthy eating behaviors.
The multi-disciplinary treatment team is comprised of nationally known experts who have decades of experience working with eating disordered patients. Physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, nutritionists, and expressive-arts therapists address the unique and complicated needs of the patients. An eclectic approach is used, including cognitive-behavioral techniques and insight-oriented psychotherapies, in order to treat the aberrant behaviors while exploring the psychological underpinnings.
The Treatment Center has three levels of care that include inpatient and partial hospitalization and an outpatient clinic.
Treatment Facilities, would you like to be featured here? Contact amy@gurze.net for details.
Featuring support and advice from some of our most knowledgeable authors, each page on EatingDisodersBlogs.com is focused on a different aspect of eating disorders.
Recently, Doris Smeltzer, author of the Advice for Parents Blog, responded to questions generated by a blog she wrote about the media dismissing British singer Amy Winehouse's controversial behavior and possible eating disorder at a San Francisco concert. Doris was asked, "When you see an obviously anorexic young woman at the market, do you say anything?" Click here to see how she responded.
Don't forget, you can bookmark individual blogs and receive notice when your favorite author has posted. Simply click on "Subscribe to this feed" at the bottom of each post.
Clinical Recipes for Success:
Advanced Treatments for Eating Disorders
Las Vegas, NV
June 21 - 24 2007
www.BFIsummit.com or call 800 643 0797
Click here for links to continuing education opportunities, seminars, and workshops.
Every issue of Eating Disorders Today contains a question and answer column, Nutrition Hotline, by Diane Keddy, MS, RD. This question appears in the current Spring 2007 issue.
Q. How will I know when or if I am recovered?
A. Experts cannot agree on a set of criteria for recovery from anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, or eating disorders not otherwise specified. However, factors to be considered include:
•Maintaining a healthy body weight with normal menstruation (for females)
•Maintaining a healthy body weight with normal testosterone levels (for males)
•Normal laboratory data including protein and iron levels
•The ability to eat any food without guilt, anxiety, or the need for compensatory behavior (i.e., purging, restricting, or exercising)
•The ability to use alternate coping mechanisms when stressed
•The ability to eat when hungry and stop when comfortably full
•The ability to eat a varied diet with 3 meals and 1–3 snacks per day
•Being able to live a joyful life where eating disorder thoughts and behaviors do not interfere with enjoyable activities
•Being able to eat restaurant meals and feel comfortable
•Accepting that no body is perfect and having a positive body image
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