Eating Disorder Treatment For Family | Eating Disorder

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Eating Disorder Treatment For Family Eating
Disorder
At Equip, a 5-person team includes a therapist,
medical provider, family mentor, peer mentor, and
registered dietitian provide eating disorder
treatment for family. It is the quickest way for
an underweight child to return to a healthy
weight.
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We created Equip to be the last eating disorder
treatment your family will ever need.
Treatment at home with Equip means being
supported by your virtual Equip team with care
designed around lasting recovery. It means being
protected from relapse because your child isnt
doing this work alone your whole village learns
how to help fight the eating disorder. It means
having a full treatment team all under one roof
your own home. By empowering you to support your
loved ones recovery, Equip provides the tools
for true healing that lasts.
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Important Facts About Eating Disorders

• Families dont cause eating disorders but are at
  the heart of helping loved ones recover
• Eating disorders are up 70 in kids as young as
  7 since the pandemic began
• Hospital admission rates for eating disorders are
  up 50 with long wait lists
• Eating disorders have the 2nd highest mortality
  rate of all mental health disorders
• Eating disorders dont have a look and affect
  all genders, races, ethnicities, and body sizes
• Early treatment significantly increases the
  likelihood of recovery

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How Treatment Works

• Who we treat
• Patients of all genders ages 6-24 and older
  adults if they are living with caregivers
• We know that eating disorders almost never exist
  alone, so Equip can also treat co-existing
  conditions like anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD,
  and trauma
• How we treat
• 100 virtual care with a 5-person provider team
  that collaborates to give you coordinated,
  personalized treatment.
• Every team includes a therapist, medical provider
  (pediatrician, adolescent medicine doctor, or
  nurse practitioner), family mentor, peer mentor,
  and registered dietitian. When clinically
  indicated, patients also have a psychiatrist
  added to their team.

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• What does treatment look like?
• To start, your family will meet with all 5
  providers and may need them frequently. You can
  work with your team as often as you need or want
  and identify where you need added support (meal
  planning, mentorship, therapy, etc.)
• Well be there after before school and in the
  midst of finals. Virtual care means not having to
  coordinate schedules to make in-person
  appointments together. Your family can connect
  with your Equip providers where its convenient
  including in your car before soccer practice or
  backstage after theater tryouts.
• We coordinate with your pediatrician or other
  primary care provider to ensure continuity of
  medical care.

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• Talk therapy works best once patients are
  re-nourished. As patients progress through weight
  restoration and eradication of eating disorder
  behaviors, therapy shifts from family sessions to
  include more individual appointments for the
  patient. i.
• Body image is often the last eating disorder
  struggle to go. Equip treatment includes a
  research-backed body image program created by
  Stanford-trained clinicians. Studies show that
  the program further reduces eating disorder
  symptoms, increases positive attitudes about body
  image, and improves self-esteem.

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• How does family become a part of treatment?
• Family is defined by whatever you see as your
  loved ones chosen family this can mean
  step-parents, grandparents, siblings, roommates,
  friends, and significant others. We encourage
  families to educate the other important people in
  the patients lifecoaches, teachers, extended
  familyto know how to support recovery.
• Early phases of treatment focus on family support
  at every meal and snack because its nearly
  impossible for your loved one to fight their
  eating disorder alone. We equip families with the
  tools, language, and strength to help their loved
  one eradicate eating disorder behaviors and drive
  weight restoration for those who need it.

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Phone [phone] Email info_at_equip.health Web
site www.equip.health
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