Resources for children and adolescents with eating disorders

Websites

• Relate (opens in new window) provides help for children and young people, offering specific advice for different types of worries.
• South Yorkshire Eating Disorder Association (opens in new window) offers support and information on eating disorders.
• An information leaflet for young people about eating disorders (opens in new window) provides helpful guidance.
• Eva Musby, a mother of a boy who struggled with anorexia nervosa, has produced a lot of helpful information at anorexia family (opens in new window).
• Talk Eating Disorders (opens in new window) is an organisation offering information, helplines, and support groups for both carers or parents and young people.
• Myth busting and thoughts around the impact of eating disorders are addressed at time to change (opens in new window).
• Recovery stories and blogs (opens in new window) offer insights and encouragement from those who have experienced eating disorders.

Books

• Skills based Caring for a loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Method by Janet Treasure, Grainne Smith, Anna Crane.
• Anorexia and other eating disorders: How to help your child eat well and be well by Eva Musby.
• Banish your Body Image Thief: A Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) therapy workbook on building positive body image for young people by Kate Collins, Donnelly.
• Overcoming Binge Eating: A proven Program to Learn Why You Binge and How You Can Stop by Christopher Fairburn.
• Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques by Patricia Graham and Chris Freeman.

Videos

• Explaining family based treatment and its evidence (opens in new window)
• Help your child eat with trust, not logic, the bungee jump (opens in new window)
• Parents staying on task during re-feeding in family based treatment (opens in new window)
• Eating disorders meal support, helpful approaches for families (opens in new window)
• Family based treatment, separating illness from child (opens in new window)
• Parental unity during family based treatment (opens in new window)
• Digestive symptoms during re-feeding anorexia (opens in new window)

Page last reviewed: February 13, 2025
Next review due: February 13, 2026