Family Based Treatment for Eating Disorders
Guiding & empowering you to nourish your child through an eating disorder
Nobody wants to hear that their child has an eating disorder. It’s uncharted territory - unfamiliar, confusing, and scary.
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We’re here to act as the map & the trail guide, supporting your child and your family through the recovery process with a structure called Family Based Treatment.
About Family Based Treatment for Eating Disorders
Family Based Treatment, or FBT, is a treatment structure that was developed to help families support teenagers struggling with an eating disorder. Think: the roadmap that helps you figure out where to turn, who to ask to join the journey, and the tools you'll need to get there.
It’s considered the gold standard for eating disorder treatment in teens, and helps reduce the chances of needing a higher level of care.
FBT began as a treatment for anorexia nervosa, and has now been adopted for teens with bulimia nervosa (BN), avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), binge eating disorder (BED), and other unspecified eating disorders (OSFED).
Individualized Care
just for your family
We understand every family has different situations and concerns, and our job is to individualize your family’s treatment. We work with a multitude of different family/guardian situations.
A Team-Based Approach
stronger together
Building a treatment team is one of the first steps in FBT, and we'll help you do it. This usually includes (but is not limited to): family & support system, a therapist, a pediatrician, and a dietitian.
Why Choose Family Based Treatment?
An alternative to inpatient care
FBT requires a commitment of both time and resources - a fact that we do not take lightly. It's considered to be the gold standard of treating adolescents, which we attribute to teens journeying through recovery in their home environments (rather than going through transitions into and out of inpatient treatment) and the high family involvement in care.
We're here to help FBT be doable, realistic, and successful for your family, and to forge a new path forward with you and your teen.
Nutrition
Restoration
To start, control and decision-making with food is placed in the parents' or caregivers' hands. We'll focus on re-nourishing your teen, stabilizing eating disorder behaviors, and creating a path to move forward.
Increasing independence
As behaviors stabilize and decrease, we'll create a map for slowly returning control to your teen through practice with portioning, plating, and more.
shifting gears
As recovery continues, we’ll help your teen fine-tune the internal compass that guides the relationship with food & their body through continually increasing independence. We'll switch our focus from a more family-based approach to an individual one, as your teen begins to take more control over their recovery.
FBT Process
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We're here to help you create a plan to move forward. If you're curious about what the overall process of FBT looks like, here are stages we'll follow over the course of treatment.
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Getting Started With FBT
You can support your teen in beginning recovery by reaching out to make an appointment with us. In your first week of care, we'll have two sessions during which we'll explain FBT in-depth, start creating a plan, and helping you build your teen's treatment team.
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