Key Resources
A curated selection of trusted, evidence-based resources offering practical guidance and compassionate support for individuals, families, and caregivers. Each recommendation offers practical guidance, clarity, and compassionate support alongside your treatment journey.
Resources for Learning & Support
These books, podcasts, and other materials are intended to educate, inform, and offer reassurance that meaningful support and solutions are available for you and your family. Many of the recommended books can be found through your local library. Click the plus (+) icon to expand and view each resource section.
Books
Eating Disorders
When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder, Lauren Muhlheim, PsyD
Essential reading for parents seeking practical, supportive guidance.
How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder, Wendy Sterling, Casey Crosbie
Provides specific, necessary information for parents engaging in supported feeding.
Aiming for Overshoot, Helly Barns
Focuses on the physical and psychological benefits of weight restoration.
Decoding Anorexia, Carrie Arnold
A scientific yet accessible look at the underlying neurobiology of the illness.
Sick Enough 2, Jennifer L. Gaudiani
Helps both patients and families understand the medical dangers of malnutrition.
Food Mad, Victoria Schonwald
Describes the nutritional neurobiological basis of the recommendation for full nutritional restoration in eating disorders, and why eating disorders are not a “choice.” A very quick and easy read.
Fat Talk, Virginia Sole-Smith
A compassionate and essential guide to dismantling diet culture and raising body-confident kids in a world obsessed with weight.
ADHD
ADHD 2.0 by Edward Hallowell & John Ratey
A look at how to harness the unique strengths of the ADHD brain while managing the challenges of a high-speed mind.
How to ADHD by Jessica McCabe
A friendly, research-backed guide to stop fighting your neurodivergent brain and building systems that work.
Taking Charge of Adult ADHD by Russell Barkley
Understanding the science of executive function and taking back control of your daily life.
The Explosive Child by Ross Greene
A compassionate shift in parenting that focuses on solving problems with your child rather than trying to power through them.
Smart but Scattered by Peg Dawson & Richard Guare
A practical roadmap for helping kids (and adults) strengthen the specific brain skills needed to stay organized and regulated.
OCD
Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD, Eli Lebowitz
A practical guide for parents to understand and apply Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) techniques at home.
Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts, Martin N. Seif and Sally M. Winston
A compassionate, evidence-based approach to managing common, distressing thoughts.
The Family Guide to Getting Over OCD, Jonathan S. Abramowitz
Helps the entire family understand their role in supporting treatment and avoiding accommodation.
Caregivers
Trauma Stewardship, Connie Burk and Laura van Dernoot Lipsy
An important resource for addressing the emotional costs of caring for others and maintaining sustainability.
How to Keep House While Drowning, KC Davis
A gentle, judgment-free guide to managing basic life and home tasks when mental health is low.
Podcasts
Workshops, Groups & Parent Support
F.E.A.S.T.
Free support groups led by clinicians, for families of eating disorder sufferers, with multiple sessions available weekly.
Equip Monthly Workshops
These skills-based workshops include Equip clinicians and occur once every three months.
Facebook Groups
Treatment Guidelines
Academy of Eating Disorder (AED) Guidelines, 4th edition
Provides a vital roadmap for identifying and treating the physical complications of eating disorders. I recommend printing pages 6–9 for ER staff to ensure they perform the specific labs and exams necessary for medical stabilization, as standard testing often misses these critical warning signs.
American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines
The goal of this guideline is to improve the quality of care and treatment outcomes for patients with eating disorders.