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SuiteU - Online Learning

SuiteU has 20 schools offering a variety of interesting and informative online courses, all for free!


Suite U - Health
Please visit the Health school at SuiteU to see a list of current courses ranging from Affordable Fitness to Living the Low-Carb Lifestyle.

Treatment and Support

There are a number of options when it comes to treatment and support. This list is simply a resource of sites, centers, services and professionals. Inclusion in this list does not necessarily constitute endorsement. I encourage anyone who is dealing with an eating disorder to seek research treatment and/or support options before beginning any program.
Related Topics: Eating disorders -- Patients -- Rehabilitation , Eating disorders -- Treatment


Anorexia Survival Guide
Cristen E. Haltom, M.A., Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, clinician, coach, and teacher. Over the years Cris has always treated many adolescents and adults with eating disorders. She was interviewed on a special cable television program about eating disorders and has trained mental health clinic staff in eating disorder treatment. Cris continues to present as a guest lecturer on the topic of eating disorders at Cornell University. At her website you will be able to sign up for a free subscription to her "Anorexia Survival Guide for Parents" Newsletter, as well as browse through archived issues. In addition, teleclasses are available. TELECLASSES offer an effective and innovative way to learn about strategies and tips for responding to your child with anorexia. By joining other parents of children with anorexia in interactive classes via telephone, you have the opportunity to share, collaborate, encourage and inspire each other, under the leadership of Cris Haltom.


Cogan's Counseling Center
Sophia Cogan is a Certified Professional Counselor and a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist. She has over 8 years experience in working with those suffering from eating disorders. She offers online eating disorder counseling via email.


Dietless
Dietless is a comprehensive Step by Step program designed to help women achieve permanent changes in how they approach food and eating.It is not a quick weight loss program but rather a psychological "no diet" approach created to help you discover the emotional connections to weight loss.


Healthy Within
Healthy Within is an Intensive Day Treatment Program for Eating Disorders located in San Diego, CA. Healthy Within is a unique day treatment and outpatient program for eating disorders. Their program provides treatment for adolescent males, adolescent females, adult males and adult females suffering from eating disorders. Their multidisciplinary team assures that treatment is comprehensive and thorough. Individualized treatment plans, combined with small group therapy, provide a supportive environment where people can practice new behaviors and learn new ways to relate to themselves and others.


John Hopkins Hospital, Eating Disorders Program
John Hopkins Hospital's Eating Disorders Program offers consultation, outpatient services, partial hospitalization, and full inpatient care. Located in Baltimore, Maryland.


New Realities Eating Disorder Centre
New Realities Eating Disorders Recovery Centre is a centre for recovery from eating disorders including binge eating, compulsive overeating, bulimia and anorexia. At the centre we are interested in helping those with eating disorders and their families and friends through the information at this site as well as through the services we offer at the centre. Located in Toronto, Canada.


Rader Programs
The treatment staff at Rader Programs has been providing high-quality clinical programs for over 17 years. We specialize in the treatment of eating and related disorders including sexual abuse. It is our mission to help save the lives of those suffering from eating disorders. The primary purpose of Rader Programs is to treat the dysfunctional behavior in a supportive environment. A staff of caring and experienced professionals, many who are recovering themselves, assist the affected individual and their family in developing a life long program for recovery. Currently, Rader has locations in Oxnard California, and Tulsa Oklahoma. Their site also provides a great deal of eating disorder information and links.


Remuda Ranch
Remuda is a nationally recognized Christian specialized treatment system for females, exclusively dedicated to the treatment of anorexia, bulimia, and related problems. Remuda and its programs are significantly different from the institutional format of traditional hospitals and clinics. The Remuda system consists of 132 beds including adult and adolescent intensive facilities in Wickenburg, AZ, and our Remuda Life Program in Chandler, AZ. The Remuda systems treat the whole person with individualized programs designed to meet medical, nutritional and psychological needs, blending these components within a Biblically based, non-denominational perspective


Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association
Somerset Eating Disorders Association - SEDA - is a user-led charity based on the principles of self help. We are based at Street in Somerset, England with the aim of serving those in the county affected by eating disorders - anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, compulsive eating, binge eating and all related eating disorders


The International Eating Disorder Centre
The International Eating Disorders Centre is situated close to Aylesbury Town Centre. The Centre is a nine bedded home for males and females suffering from Anorexia, Bulimia, Compulsive Overeating and other eating disorders. An holistic approach focuses on the patient's spiritual, physical and psychological needs, in an accepting atmosphere.


The Renfrew Center
The Renfrew Center is a women's mental health center with locations in Philadelphia, Bryn Mawr and Bucks County, PA; South Florida; New York City; Long Island and Northern New Jersey as well as a nationwide referral network. We specialize in the treatment of eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating), trauma, anxiety, depression, substance abuse and other women's issues.


The Willough Healthcare System
The Willough Healthcare System specializes in an addictions approach to chemical dependency and eating disorders. The distinguishing factor that makes the Willough successful in its approach to addictions is the adherence to the recovery process using the twelve-step model. With eating disorder patients this is best accomplished through the use of behavior modification and individualized treatment planning, expecially with anorexics and bulimics. Located in Naples, Florida.


Canopy Cove
Canopy Cove is a division of Health Management Institute (HMI) - an outpatient eating disorder treatment facility developed by Dr. Lynda A. Brogdon in 1990. Health Management Institute is located in Tallahassee, Florida.


Eating Disorders Clinic at NYSPI/Columbia Presbyterian Med Ctr
The Eating Disorders Clinic at NYSPI/Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center offers treatment at no cost to adolescents and adults interested in, and eligible for, research participation


Monte Nido Treatment Center
Nestled in the foothills of Malibu, California, on two acres of pine, oak, sycamore, and fruit trees, Monte Nido lives up to its name, "Mountain Nest". Surrounded by a state park with hiking trails that lead to the beach, Monte Nido is a secluded, gated estate equipped with a gym, swimming pool, and private bath and deck in each bedroom. Our home like atmosphere provides comfort in a unique setting where the challenges necessary for recovery take place.

Pregnant with an Eating Disorder

Coping with an eating disorder while pregnant is a situation unique to itself.
Related Topics: Eating disorders , Pregnancy -- Nutritional aspects


Something-Fishy's Eating Disorders and Pregnancy Page
Helpful information on coping with an eating disorder while pregnant.


Frequently asked questions - Pregnant w/eating disorder
ANRED has put together a page of commonly asked questions regarding being pregnant while coping with an eating disorder.


Pregnant with an Eating Disorde Discussion Board
You are not alone in this. ParentsPlace has a discussion board specifically for women who are pregnant with an eating disorder.

Web Sites

Related Topics: Eating disorders , Eating disorders -- Patients -- Rehabilitation , Eating disorders -- Patients -- Services for


Grant Me The Serenity...
Self-Help & Recovery resource & web guide provides extensive information & resources for those in or seeking recovery from various addictions, obsessions & compulsions, family, friends & abuse survivors.


Athletes and Eating Disorders
This Mirror-Mirror page deals with the unique problems facing athelets with eating disorders.


Something-Fishy Eating Disorders Website
The Something-Fishy Eating Disorders Website is one of the most informative and supportive eating disorder sites on the web.


Eating Disorder Recovery Online
The Light Aurora's Eating Disorder Recovery Online offers interesting information and a good discussion board.


Optimal Eating. How people recover.
Optimal Eating's site on How People Recover From Eating Disorders offers information, education and consultation services about eating disorders.


Mirror Mirror Eating Disorder Awareness
This Canadian site offers a wide array of information on all types of eating disorder. Also has a good reading list, and a introspective "Self-Test".


ANRED Eating Disorder Info
Anred is a non-profit organization that provides information about eating disorders (including binge eating, compulsive exercising, and other less known aspects of eating disorders).


The Long Road Back....
Judy Sargent, the author of a soon to be released book THE LONG ROAD BACK, A SURVIVOR'S GUIDE TO ANOREXIA. Her site offers many resources for people looking for support.


Ask Noah
An excellent site by "Well Connected" offers a wealth of very thorough and well researched information. It is written by medical writers and co-edited by doctors from the Harvard Medical School.


Overeaters Anonymous
Overeaters Anonymous is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. Visit their website to learn more about OA and find out about meetings in your area.


Fed Up!
Managed by a graduate student who is recovering from an eating disorder, this intriuging site has a good deal of eating disorder information and links. Also has a large number of links relating to athletes with eating disorders.


AABA's Eating Disorder Page
The American Anorexia and Bulimia Association hopes to increase the public's consciousness of eating disorders. This is a helpful site with pages for those suffering with eating disorders, families and friends, professionals, and general information. Definitely worth checking out!


Alliance for Eating Disorder Awareness
The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness is a non-profit organization dedicated to public education and awareness of eating disorders. The site contains much information about eating disorders, including signs and symptoms, medical dangers, suggested reading lists, treatment center phone numbers, personal stories and more.


Beat Bulimia
At this website, you can sign up for the free "Beat Bulimia" Newsletter. It's is a newsletter that is unique in its class. It takes you into the life of Mary, a woman with bulimia, and helps you understand how she thinks and feels. It examines the problems that fuel her eating disorder and explains how she overcomes each one, step by step. In upcoming issues Mary will help you learn about:


Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center
The Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of eating disorders. They are able to provide information and treatment resources for all forms of eating disorders and hope to promote social attitudes that enhance a healthy body image and self-esteem.


Eating Disorders Awareness & Prevention, Inc.
EDAP is the nation's largest non-profit organization devoted to the awareness and prevention of eating disorders. They are the sponsors of Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and have a wonderful site full of valuable information, links and contacts.


Fat Fairy-Godmother
Website about how one woman recovered from her 12-year addiction to food. Dedicated to helping others overcome compulsive overeating and binge eating disorder.


Caring Online
This site is dedicated to those who are looking to recover from the curse of eating disorders, and to their friends and family who give so much.


Geri's Recovery Music
Geri is a singer/songwriter and recovering overeater. Check out her page and listen to her music.


Joanna Poppink, M.F.T., at HealthyPlace.co
Joanna Poppink, M.F.T. provides private psychotherapy for people with eating disorders, and for the people who love them and in private practice since 1980. Poppink's practices out of the Los Angeles area. She offers many articles on eating disorders, a cyberguide to recovery, and a eating-disorders bulletin board.


Pale Reflections
This is an eating disorder site, started by a young man from Sussex England. It offers a glossery of terms, information on related issues, links to related sites, and more. Also, you can sign up (as I have), to receive the weekly "Pale Reflections" email newsletter.

Articles

Related Topics: Eating disorders , Eating disorders -- Social aspects


Article: Monica Seles discusses weight issues.
Being a few pounds overweight doesn't bother tennis superstar Monica Seles. Not after seeing what preoccupation with dieting did to one of her best friends, who suffers from bulimia.


Model thinness = anorexic tendencies
A great article about the lengths many models go to while maintaining their unrealistically slender bodies.


Adolescence: Change and Continuity
Looks at the functions and needs of a family; both as separate beings and as a whole.


Dads & Daughters
A Place for fathers to get some basic information on his relationship with his daughter. Take a DAD-Q test, read book reviews, sign up for free newsletters.


Dr. Gelt, Ph.D
In this article Dr. Gelt describes the difference between basic and material needs as well as discusses the impact of fathers on the family as a whole.


Father Daughter Fact Sheet
Some facts on father and daughter relationships.


Father Daughter Relationship
Daughters learn many things from their parents; special things are learned especially from dad. Here is some more insight into the father/daughter bond.


Father Daughter Relationships – getting them to work
Research describing the relationships between fathers and daughters; also looks at impact of having a father present in his daughters life.


Father Hunger Needs Relationship
An article written by, James L. Schaller, M.D., M.A.R., P.C. that gives more information regarding the topic of 'father hunger.'


Resources for fathers
A list of websites catered specifically to fathers. Offering support through divorce, book reviews, online support groups. Some sites describe your role in the family in the case of divorce.