Eating Disorders Resource List

Thank you to the Eating Disorders Foundation of Newfoundland & Labrador for collaborating with us to choose these resources and make them available. Titles are generally available in print and digital formats.

For a direct link to this collection in eBook/eAudiobook format on Overdrive/Libby: https://elibrary.overdrive.com/collection/1104905

For more local resources, see the Eating Disorders Foundation of Newfoundland & Labrador website: https://www.edfnl.ca/

Updated January 30, 2026
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ARFID Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder : a guide for parents and carers
Bryant-Waugh, Rachel
Paper Book
ARFID Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: A Guide for Parents and Carers is an accessible summary of a relatively recent diagnostic term. People with ARFID may show little interest in eating, eat only a very limited range of foods or may be terrified something might happen to them if they...
ARFID Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder : a guide for parents and carers
Bryant-Waugh, Rachel
Ebook
ARFID Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: A Guide for Parents and Carers is an accessible summary of a relatively recent diagnostic term. People with ARFID may show little interest in eating, eat only a very limited range of foods or may be terrified something might happen to them if they...
Autism and Eating Disorders in Teens : A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Paper Book
The relationship between autism and eating disorders is often overlooked or misunderstood. Written by two experienced clinicians working with young people, Autism and Eating Disorders in Teens covers topics including identification of both conditions, diagnosis and the recovery process,...
Autism and eating disorders in teens : a guide for parents and professionals
Bullivant, Fiona Fisher
Ebook
The relationship between autism and eating disorders is often overlooked or misunderstood. Written by two experienced clinicians working with young people, Autism and Eating Disorders in Teens covers topics including identification of both conditions, diagnosis and the recovery process,...
Being you : The body image book for boys
Markey, Charlotte N.
Paper Book
From early childhood boys often feel pressured to be athletic and muscular. But what impact does this have on physical and mental well-being through their teens and beyond? Worryingly, a third of teen boys are trying to 'bulk up' due to body dissatisfaction, and boys and men account for 25% of...
Binge Eating Disorder : The Journey to Recovery and Beyond
Paper Book
Binge Eating Disorder, written by a clinician and an advocate who have personally struggled with Binge Eating Disorder (BED), illuminates the experience of BED from the patient perspective while also exploring the disorder's etiological roots and addressing the components of treatment that are...
Binge eating disorder : the journey to recovery and beyond
Pershing, Amy
Ebook
Binge Eating Disorder, written by a clinician and an advocate who have personally struggled with Binge Eating Disorder (BED), illuminates the experience of BED from the patient perspective while also exploring the disorder's etiological roots and addressing the components of treatment that are...
Body Happy Kids: How to help children and teens love the skin they're in
Forbes, Molly.
Paper Book
We are not born hating our bodies. Make sure your kids never do. No parent wants their child to grow up with anything less than wholehearted confidence in themselves. Sadly research shows that children as young as five are saying they need to 'go on a diet' and over half of 11 to...
Boys get anorexia too ; [online electronic book] coping with male eating disorde
Langley, Jenny.
Ebook
Eating disorders are usually associated with females but there are an increasing number of males affected by anorexia and bulimia. Often there is a link between male eating disorders and athletic prowess, and the quest for physical perfection can result in damaging behaviours associated with diet,...
Break the Binds of Weight Stigma : Free Yourself from Body Image Struggles Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Pegrum, Sarah
Paper Book
"I can't do that until I've lost a bit of weight". "I need to slim down first". "When I'm thinner I'll..." What if you didn't feel held back by your body? This guide helps you to free yourself from harmful social attitudes about weight and to start living now. Break the...
Break the binds of weight stigma : free yourself from body image struggles using acceptance and commitment therapy
Pegrum, Sarah
Ebook
"I can't do that until I've lost a bit of weight". "I need to slim down first". "When I'm thinner I'll..." What if you didn't feel held back by your body? This guide helps you to free yourself from harmful social attitudes about weight and to start living now. Break the...
By their side : [online electronic book] a resource for caretakers and loved one
Bell, Lara Lyn.
Ebook
This practical resource guide shares essential information and personal stories from eating disorder survivors, family members, caretakers, and others. When someone you love is in the throes of an eating disorder, it can be difficult to believe recovery is possible. By Their Side...
By their side : a resource for caretakers and loved ones facing an eating disord
Bell, Lara Lyn.
Paper Book
In the depths of illness, it can be difficult to believe recovery is possible. Overcoming an eating disorder is one of the hardest battles any of us can fight-not only for the afflicted person but also for the friends, family members, and loved ones suffering beside them, wondering how they can help...
Caring for a loved one with an eating disorder : [online electronic book] the ne
Langley, Jenny.
Ebook
Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Skills-Based Training Manual provides a framework for carer skills workshops which can be used by anyone working with these conditions. Based on the successful New Maudsley Model, which equips carers with the knowledge and...
Diet-proof your daughter : a mother's guide to raising girls who have happy, healthy relationships with food and body
Sherry, Amelia
Eating disorder recovery handbook : a practical guide for long-term recovery
Davies, Nicola
Ebook
This empathetic handbook has been created for people affected by any form of disordered eating. Thoughtfully compiled by experienced authors, it will be a comprehensive guide through every stage of your recovery, from recognising and understanding your disorder and learning fully about treatment,...
Eating disorder recovery handbook : a practical guide for long-term recovery
Davies, Nicola
Paper Book
This empathetic handbook has been created for people affected by any form of disordered eating. Thoughtfully compiled by experienced authors, it will be a comprehensive guide through every stage of your recovery, from recognising and understanding your disorder and learning fully about treatment,...
The eating disorder sourcebook : a comprehensive guide to the causes, treatments
Costin, Carolyn
Paper Book
Sound, sensitive advice for overcoming an eating disorder Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, exercise addictions . . . these disorders can be devastating, but they are in no way unbeatable. Therapist Carolyn Costin, herself recovered from anorexia, brings three decades of experience...
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The eating disorders sourcebook : [online electronic book] a comprehensive guide
Costin, Carolyn
Ebook
Emotion-focused family therapy : a transdiagnostic model for caregiver-focused i
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Paper Book
In this treatment manual, Adele Lafrance, Katherine A. Henderson, and Shari Mayman provide mental health professionals with guidelines for implementing emotion-focused family therapy (EFFT), an exciting new intervention in which caregivers are the primary healing agents in their loved one's...
Get out of your mind and into your life : [online electronic book] the new accep
Hayes, Steven C.
Ebook
Get ready to take a different perspective on your problems and your life--and the way you live it. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a new, scientifically based psychotherapy that takes a fresh look at why we suffer and even what it means to be mentally healthy. What...
Goodbye Ed, hello me : [online electronic book] recover from your eating disorde
Schaefer, Jenni
Ebook
Don't Battle an Eating Disorder Forever-Recover from It Completely Jenni Schaefer and Ed (eating disorder) are no longer on speaking terms, not even in her most difficult moments. In her bestseller, Life Without Ed, Jenni learned to treat her eating disorder as a...
Goodbye Ed, hello me : recover from your eating disorder and fall in love with l
Schaefer, Jenni
Paper Book
Don't Battle an Eating Disorder Forever-Recover from It Completely Jenni Schaefer and Ed (eating disorder) are no longer on speaking terms, not even in her most difficult moments. In her bestseller, Life Without Ed, Jenni learned to treat her eating disorder as a relationship,...
Help your teenager beat an eating disorder /
Lock, James
Paper Book
This book has been replaced by Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5712-7.
Help your teenager beat an eating disorder. [online electronic audiobook]
Lock, James
Audiobook
Tens of thousands of parents have turned to this compassionate guide for support and practical advice grounded in cutting-edge scientific knowledge. Top experts James Lock and Daniel Le Grange explain what you need to know about eating disorders, which treatments work, and why it is absolutely...
Help your teenager beat an eating disorder. [online electronic book]
Lock, James
Ebook
This book has been replaced by Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5712-7.
How to Help Someone with an Eating Disorder : A Practical Handbook
Struggling to help someone you love as they battle an eating disorder? This book will arm you with the knowledge, understanding and skills you need to be able to help your loved one towards recovery. Psychologist and eating disorder specialist Dr Pamela Macdonald has been working...
How to raise an intuitive eater : [online electronic book] raising the next gene
Brooks, Sumner.
Ebook
With the wisdom of Intuitive Eating, a manifesto for parents to help them reject diet culture and raise the next generation to have a healthy relationship with food and their bodies. Kids are born intuitive eaters. Well-meaning parents, influenced by the diet culture that...
How to raise an intuitive eater : raising the next generation with food and body
Brooks, Sumner.
Paper Book
With the wisdom of Intuitive Eating, a manifesto for parents to help them reject diet culture and raise the next generation to have a healthy relationship with food and their bodies. Kids are born intuitive eaters. Well-meaning parents, influenced by the diet culture that...
If your adolescent has an eating disorder : [online electronic book] an essentia
Walsh, B. Timothy, 1946-
Ebook
If your adolescent has an eating disorder : an essential resource for parents
Walsh, B. Timothy
Paper Book
If Your Adolescent Has an Eating Disorder is an authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, or other eating disorders. It is designed for parents of teens who have recently been...
The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery
Reichmann, Colleen
Paper Book
The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery is a fresh, smart, how-to book that helps people with eating disorders to heal their relationship with food, their bodies, and ultimately themselves.
The inside scoop on eating disorder recovery : [online electronic book] advice f
Reichmann, Colleen.
Ebook
The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery is a fresh, smart, how-to book that helps people with eating disorders to heal their relationship with food, their bodies, and ultimately themselves. Written from the perspective of two eating disorder therapists, both of whom are recovered from...
Life without Ed : [online electronic book] how one woman declared independence f
Schaefer, Jenni
Ebook
The 10th Anniversary Edition of the book that has given hope and inspiration to thousands who are dealing with eating disorders "If you or someone you love has an eating disorder, this is the book to read." --Dr. Phil Jenni had been in an abusive...
Life without Ed : how one woman declared independence from her eating disorder a
Schaefer, Jenni
Paper Book
The 10th Anniversary Edition of the book that has given hope and inspiration to thousands who are dealing with eating disorders "If you or someone you love has an eating disorder, this is the book to read." --Dr. Phil Jenni had been in an abusive relationship with...
Off the C. U. F. F.: A Parent Skills Book for the Management of Disordered Eating
Zucker, Nancy
Paper Book
This self-help manual is what is used to help parents gain skills and understanding to help manage their child's eating disorder. It is the basis of the parent support and skills program from the Duke Center for Eating Disorders. This manual is intended to accomplish four basic goals. First, it...
Overcoming binge eating : [online electronic book] the proven program to learn w
Fairburn, Christopher G.
Ebook
This trusted bestseller provides all the information needed to understand binge eating and bring it under control, whether you are working with a therapist or on your own. Clear, step-by-step guidelines show you how to: Overcome the urge to binge. Gain control...
Overcoming binge eating : the proven program to learn why you binge and how you
Fairburn, Christopher G.
Paper Book
This trusted bestseller provides all the information needed to understand binge eating and bring it under control, whether you are working with a therapist or on your own. Clear, step-by-step guidelines show you how to: Overcome the urge to binge. Gain control...
A parent's guide to defeating eating disorders : [online electronic book] spotti
Boachie, Ahmed
Ebook
Building a supportive and open relationship with young people suffering from eating disorders is key to assisting the recovery process. This book is packed with metaphorical explanations that will allow parents and caregivers to ally themselves with treatment rather than the eating disorder, and...
A parent's guide to defeating eating disorders : spotting the stealth bomber and
Boachie, Ahmed
Paper Book
Building a supportive and open relationship with young people suffering from eating disorders is key to assisting the recovery process. This book is packed with metaphorical explanations that will allow parents and caregivers to ally themselves with treatment rather than the eating disorder, and...
The picky eater's recovery book : overcoming avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
Thomas, Jennifer J.
Paper Book
Are you a picky eater? Do you worry that food will make you vomit or choke? Do you find eating to be a chore? If yes, this book is for you! Your struggles could be caused by Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID); a disorder characterized by eating a limited variety or volume of food. You...
Skills-based caring for a loved one with an eating disorder : the new Maudsley m
Treasure, Janet
Paper Book
Skills-based Caring equips carers with the skills and knowledge needed to support those suffering from an eating disorder, and to help them to break free from the traps that prevent recovery. Through a coordinated approach, it offers detailed techniques and strategies, which aim to improve...
Supporting Autistic People with Eating Disorders : A Guide to Adapting Treatment and Supporting Recovery
Paper Book
This book explores the link between autism and eating disorders through testimonies from practitioners, service users and carers. Combining research findings, case studies and first-hand accounts, it provides insights into how individuals on the autism spectrum can be supported towards full...
Supporting autistic people with eating disorders : a guide to adapting treatment and supporting recovery
Ebook
This book explores the link between autism and eating disorders through testimonies from practitioners, service users and carers. Combining research findings, case studies and first-hand accounts, it provides insights into how individuals on the autism spectrum can be supported towards full...
Survive FBT: Skills Manual for Parents Undertaking Family Based Treatment (FBT) for Child and Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
Ganci, Maria
Paper Book
Are you struggling with Family Based Treatment? Family Based Treatment (FBT) is viewed as the gold standard in treating adolescent Anorexia Nervosa and it currently produces the best evidence-based outcomes. However, the treatment is intensive and many...
Surviving an eating disorder : strategies for family and friends
Siegel, Michele
Paper Book
Thoroughly revised and updated with the latest research and methodologies, the fourth edition of the classic guide written specifically for parents, friends, and caregivers of individuals with eating disorders. For more than thirty years, this classic guide has been an...
Treating athletes with eating disorders : [online electronic book] bridging the
Bennett, Kate.
Ebook
This book provides readers with concrete, tangible tools for treating athletes with eating disorders by discussing issues that are unique to this population and introducing specific ideas to help facilitate recovery among this population. Dr. Bennett integrates her experiences in sport and...
Treating athletes with eating disorders : bridging the gap between sport and cli
Bennett, Kate.
Paper Book
This book provides readers with concrete, tangible tools for treating athletes with eating disorders by discussing issues that are unique to this population and introducing specific ideas to help facilitate recovery among this population.
Unpack Your Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery for Adolescents in Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa and Atypical Anorexia Nervosa
Ganci, Maria
Paper Book
Educational and Self-help book for adolescents suffering from eating disorders
What to say to kids when nothing seems to work : [online electronic book] a prac
Lafrance, Adele.
Ebook
*Finalist for Best Overall Non-Fiction and Best Parenting & Family Book in the 2020 International Book Awards!* What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work offers parents an effective, step-by-step guide to some of the most common struggles for kids aged 5-12. Written by mental health...
What to say to kids when nothing seems to work : a practical guide for parents a
Lafrance, Adele.
Paper Book
What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work offers parents an effective, step-by-step guide to some of the most common struggles for kids aged 5-12. Written by mental health professionals with over 30 years' experience listening to kids' thoughts and feelings, this book provides a...
When your teen has an eating disorder : practical strategies to help your teen recover from anorexia, bulimia & binge eating
Muhlheim, Lauren
Paper Book
If your teen has an eating disorder--such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating--you may feel helpless, worried, or uncertain about how you can best support them. That's why you need real, proven-effective strategies you can use right away. Whether used in conjunction with treatment or on...
When your teen has an eating disorder : practical strategies to help your teen recover from anorexia, bulimia, & binge eating
Muhlheim, Lauren
Ebook
If your teen has an eating disorder--such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating--you may feel helpless, worried, or uncertain about how you can best support them. That's why you need real, proven-effective strategies you can use right away. Whether used in conjunction with treatment or on...

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