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Free Time: What Do I Do With It?

By |April 15th, 2015|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , |

When I was with Ed free time was non-existent.  I spent all of my days listening to him and doing as he said.  Ed didn't allow me to have free time.  It was all about him and doing what he said in order to get and achieve what he promised.  It wasn't until I went into Walden that the concept of free time was introduced to me.  We had free time in between groups, on the weekends and on passes.

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The Role Of The Caregiver In Family-Based Treatment

By |March 18th, 2015|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

From a clinical standpoint, the most crucial role in Family Based Treatment (FBT) is not necessarily the child’s role but their parents’. When a person is in the midst of their eating disorder it is often very difficult for them to see outside of their preoccupation with continuing to use eating disorder behaviors, and that is exactly where the parents become so important. A parent, or parental figure, is able to remove the responsibility of eating from the child, and become the authority on meal preparation and planning.

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