This page is meant to support and provide resources to Specialty Mental Health providers to treat clients diagnosed with an eating disorder as well as guide the process for when a client is assessed to need a higher level of care for the treatment of an eating disorder.
Outpatient Treatment for Clients Diagnosed with Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders Websites and Helpful Adjunctive Resources
National Institute of Mental Health’s Eating Disorders Site
National Eating Disorders Association – website that has screening tools and education, handouts for clients
F.E.A.S.T. – a global support and education community of and for parents of those with eating disorders
Healthy Place’s Eating Disorders Community – website that has resources and information for clients
CBT-E.co – information and resources about enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy to treat eating disorders
Fed Up Collective – a resource whose mission is to make visible, interrupt, and undermine the disproportionately high incidence of eating disorders in trans and gender diverse individuals through radical community healing, recovery institution reform, research, empowerment, and education.
Bamboo Nutrition Therapy (Multiple Locations)
Applications and Assessments
Recovery Record – an app that allows clients with EDs to track their meals and can be shared with their provider (can be accessed through a browser rather than the app if client shares by email)
Academy for Eating Disorders Guide to Medical Care
Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire
SCOFF – a five item measure, developed to serve as a simple, easy to remember screening tool for eating disorders.
ED-15 (PDF) screening tool for ED attitudes and behaviors
Books
Training Opportunities
The CBT Academy’s Eating Disorder 101 webinar recording is available here until January 25, 2024
Eating Recovery Center’s Continuing Education Events – Website with plentiful, free training opportunities
Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research Seminar Series at UC San Diego
International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Online Institute
Training and Workshops at Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy’s Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia
Online Training at Missouri Eating Disorders Council
TO JOIN A MONTHLY CLINICAL CONSULTATION SERIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF CLIENTS WITH EATING DISORDERS:
Contact Debbie Innes-Gomberg, Ph.D. at DIGomberg@dmh.lacounty.gov