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Is Outpatient Eating Disorder Treatment Right for You? Understanding Different Levels of Care

11/21/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

When you’re searching for eating disorder treatment, the options can feel overwhelming—just the acronyms alone (IOP, PHP, FBT?) are dizzying.

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How to Help Patients Navigate the Holiday Season in Recovery

11/20/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

With the abundance of food, shared mealtimes, and large social gatherings, the holiday season can be immensely difficult for anyone

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Tips for Removing Morality from Food

11/17/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

Whether it be through advertising, social media, or even within supermarkets, we as people seem to continuously assign moral values

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Juggling Priorities: Navigating Eating Disorder Treatment & Extracurriculars

11/15/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

Your child starts exhibiting the signs of an eating disorder. You contact an eating disorder treatment center for help and

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Understanding the Relationship Between Eating Disorders and OCD

10/26/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

Almost all types of mental health conditions are more common among people who have an eating disorder. These conditions are

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Using HAES Principles to Help Treat Patients with “Atypical” Anorexia

09/25/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

Body weight and body mass index (BMI), while inaccurate and inappropriate for many reasons, are still used to indicate the

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How Body Image Fits Into Eating Disorder Treatment

09/14/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

Many eating disorder symptoms have to do with bodies: being preoccupied with your body, going to great lengths to change

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Eating Disorders, Suicide, & Shame

09/13/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

CW: Mentions of Suicide Pretty much anyone who knows me also knows that I’ve recovered from an eating disorder. As

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How To Support Kids Facing Unwanted Back-to-School Comments About Their Appearance

08/22/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

The return to school is never seamless for kids. While there’s sure to be excitement about reuniting with friends and

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Why the Word “Ob*sity” is Fatphobic

08/15/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

CW: Mentions of “ob*sity” – While we absolutely do not support the use of weight stigmatizing language, the terms “ob*sity”

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How Does Eating Disorder Therapy Work?

08/07/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

When someone is struggling with their mental health, the first recommendation they often get is to see a therapist—and often,

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I Felt Alone When Diagnosed with ARFID – Until I Found Mentorship

04/24/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

I once met with a registered dietitian who was new to my treatment team, and when I mentioned my eating

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Debunking 4 Myths of Virtual Eating Disorder Treatment Programs

03/24/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

Advances in technology, the changing needs of those living with eating disorders, and the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have

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Science says Family-Based Treatment (FBT) is the Most Effective Treatment for Eating Disorders—Here’s Why

03/09/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

Maris Degener and her family had just begun seeking eating disorder treatment when they were given a pamphlet for something

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Not One More | McCallum Place

03/01/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

NOT ONE MORE CHILD Coming off the heels of new clinical guidelines introduced by the American Academy of Pediatrics, we

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Not One More | Reasons Eating Disorder Center

02/28/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

How and why to say ‘Not One More Diet’ and mean it If you have followed diets all your life,

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Not One More | Walden Behavioral Care

02/23/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

Not One More Harmful Post: How Social Media Amplifies Diet Culture and Impacts Mental Health Social media is a tool

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Not One More | Veritas Collaborative

02/22/2023 | By jkandel@allianceforeatingdisorders.com

Eating disorders are cruel illnesses. They hide in the shadows of shame and secrecy, demanding all the attention they can

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