A Parent's Guide to Helping Adolescents with Eating Disorders
This course is designed to help parents better understand the emotional and psychological world of adolescents struggling with eating disorders. Whether your teen is battling anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating, this course offers insight into the thoughts, fears, and coping mechanisms that drive these behaviors. You will gain compassionate tools for responding to your child’s needs, setting healthy boundaries, and becoming a stabilizing part of their recovery journey. You’ll learn how identity, perfectionism, shame, social media, and peer pressure uniquely affect adolescents—and how these forces can lead to unhealthy relationships with food and body image. Through guided reflections, communication tools, and practical strategies, this course empowers you to create a safe, nurturing environment for your teen’s healing process—while also learning how to support your own well-being along the way.
What you'll learn
Recognize the signs and symptoms of common adolescent eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder.
Understand the emotional, social, and developmental factors that contribute to disordered eating in teens.
Identify how toxic shame, perfectionism, and body image issues impact adolescents and shape their self-worth.
How to establish and maintain family communication tools, including family meeting structures and safe word systems.
How to set clear, loving boundaries that protect emotional safety within the home.
Course Content
10 sections • 18 lectures