End the Food Fight

Replacing Control with Connection to Help Your Child Heal from an Eating Disorder
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-4625-6332-6
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 139 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

It’s no surprise that eating disorders send parents into a panic. Even for kids getting professional help, family meals all too often end in raised voices and slammed doors when making a child eat doesn't work. In this powerfully compassionate book, psychologist Tom Wooldridge guides parents to take a different path. Dr. Wooldridge explains how eating disorder symptoms are fueled by out-of-control emotions that kids and teens can't put into words, and teaches specific parenting strategies that can help. Using guided practices and reflection prompts, parents learn to slow down their own emotional reactivity and remain present and attuned, no matter how impossible it feels. Vivid stories illustrate what it looks like to replace control with connection--and how it opens the door to recovery.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wooldridge, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Essstörungen & Therapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, Susie Orbach
Introduction
I. Understanding What’s Happening
1. Why It’s Not Just about Food
2. When Parents Feel Powerless
3. The Role of the Parent in Recovery
II. The Emotional Terrain of Attuned Parenting
4. The Hungry Self and the Silent Child
5. Reflection in the Rupture
6. The Unspoken Conversation
7. Grief, Guilt, and the Ghosts of Parenting
III. Parenting as Practice
8. Staying Close without Taking Over
9. Repairing the Breaks
10. Attunement Over Time
11. When You Need Help
Resources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, is a board-certified psychologist, eating disorder therapist, and psychoanalyst in private practice in Berkeley, California. He is also Chair of the Department of Psychology at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. Dr. Wooldridge has years of experience treating children, adolescents, and adults with eating disorders, including working with parents negotiating the complexities of a child in treatment. He has published several books on eating disorder treatment for mental health professionals.