Amazing how experience in one area of life can prove useful in a completely different situation… Following much experience working with children 5 – 12 years from a rich variety of backgrounds, through very tough…
Browsing Category My work in Eating Disoders
workingtogethercare.com – what is it?
In February 08 I attended a Society of Authors conference in Edinburgh and heard a presentation about how non-fiction writers could reach a much wider audience through the internet. Setting up a website based on…
Worldwide Charter for Action on Eating Disorders
6 basic rights outlined in the Charter… …to communication/partnership with health professionals …to comprehensive assessment and treatment planning …to accessible, high quality, fully funded, specialised care …to respectful, fully-informed, age-appropriate, safe levels of care…
Book – Skills-based caring …
Skills based Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: the New Maudsley Method’ by Professor Janet Treasure, Gráinne Smith, Anna Crane, published by Routledge, June 2007. (Now available in Japanese as well as…
Publications – eating disorders
Now on bookshelves across the world including Canada, Australia, USA, UK… ‘Anorexia and Bulimia in the Family’ (pub 2004, John Wiley and Sons) When my daughter, aged 23, told me she’s been diagnosed with anorexia…
Petition – eating disorders
NEEDS Scotland and SEDIG led the campaign for better resources e.g. training, to encourage early recognition of these devastating addictive/compulsive illnesses which affect the whole family as well as the person who has the eating…
Scottish Eating Disorders Interest Group
As a former committee member of SEDIG, I was also editor of SEDIG News for 3 years. SEDIG is a dynamic and growing group of professionals, carers, and people who have recovered from an eating…