"Maybe some day there will be an organization for children of parents with eating disorders"
There is: F.E.A.S.T. (Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders) www.FEAST-ED.org.
I am deeply saddened by the assumptions made in this post, and some of the responses. I am grateful to the brave mother who so respectfully outlined the facts. Some day I hope we will all look back and see both the error and the tragic cost in clinicians who assume pathology in families. It is disheartening that practicing clinicians would hold these beliefs, and heartbreaking that parents would absorb them.
Boundaries, it seems to me, apply to clinical assumptions as well.
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"Maybe some day there will be an organization for children of parents with eating disorders"
There is: F.E.A.S.T. (Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders) www.FEAST-ED.org.
I am deeply saddened by the assumptions made in this post, and some of the responses. I am grateful to the brave mother who so respectfully outlined the facts. Some day I hope we will all look back and see both the error and the tragic cost in clinicians who assume pathology in families. It is disheartening that practicing clinicians would hold these beliefs, and heartbreaking that parents would absorb them.
Boundaries, it seems to me, apply to clinical assumptions as well.
Laura Collins, Executive Director
June 6, 2009 - 12:52pmF.E.A.S.T.
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