Routledge Nutrition Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

This is an amazing resource for anyone working with individuals struggling from disordered eating patterns or eating disorders. As a recovering future clinician, I found the content to be very encouraging and supportive for those in recovery. The authors take a holistic approach to treating the patient and do not recommend "all or nothing" techniques or mandates in regards to calorie counting or meal planning based on strict regimens. They also discuss levels of care, weight monitoring and restoration, family-based treatment, and the importance of considering exercise and movement in the recovery plan. I would highly recommend this book to medical professionals and counselors, and perhaps to families and even adults in recovery (like myself; this book has greatly impacted my recovery in a positive way).

Honestly, this book is the best choice for dieticians who work with people with EDs.

Excellent tool for dietitians.

Our RD team calls this the yellow bible. If you work with eating disorders this is a MUST have book. 100% worth the price. If you want to get into treatment of eating disorders or have a client that can't connect with an ED RD, this is a great starting point on proper nutritional therapy and interventions to set someone up for success to challenge the ED.

I like this book because it provides a lot of good insight into what to look for when suspecting eating disorders and how to go about treatment. It is very evidence-based and scientific which is awesome. However, it lacks crucial components to long term and radical recovery from eating disorders; language is not weight-inclusive & there is no emphasis on HAES, there is no talk about weight bias in ED care (if a health care professional is trying to lose weight while treating someone with an ED it is problematic), it doesn’t talk about transitioning from treatment to intuitive eating once eating has been normalized (when is it appropriate and how- in order to prevent relapse and provide patients with guidance on how to eat after recovery)... It uses terms obesity without putting quotes and has talk about how BED patients can lose weight after recovery (this only sets people back up for relapse & doesn't heal the main issue at hand: lack of accepting oneself where they are & focus on health behaviours rather than weight). The focus is always weight. It gives the impression that the authors (despite being incredibly insightful and intelligent) have their own weight biases. They use terms such as “normal weight” etc. Had this book taken into account HAES concepts (and HAES terminology that is weight-inclusive rather than further strengthening fear around not having “normal weight”) and included a chapter on weight bias & transitioning to intuitive eating, is have given it 100 stars. It just lacks the radical part of healing.