Emotion Regulation for Young People with Eating Disorders is a supportive guide for professionals to help them build effective therapeutic relationships with young people struggling with eating disorders.

Sophie Nesbitt is a clinical psychologist working with young people with eating disorders in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Lucia Giombini is a clinical psychologist and researcher working with young people and adults with eating disorders in Europe and the UK.

Emotion Regulation for Young People with Eating Disorders is a supportive guide for professionals to help them build effective therapeutic relationships with young people struggling with eating disorders.

The book focuses on the role of emotion regulation in the development and maintenance of eating disorders. The psychological concepts discussed are an integration of ideas and theories that have been proposed by many psychologists over the last half-century. The tasks presented in the book use aspects of these theories and concepts in an applied way which can be helpful to enable young people to understand more about their emotional experience and how it has contributed to their difficulties. The approach proposed can be used across the spectrum of eating disorders as the dysfunctional emotional regulation difficulty is shared by all eating disorders.

The workbook will be helpful for Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) professionals such as psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors, nurses, occupational therapists, dieticians and therapeutic care workers.

Chapter 1 - Understanding emotional experience as a window towards recovery from eating disorders; Introduction; Eating Disorders; Chapter 2 - Psychological distress and emotional experience in eating disorders; Understanding Psychological Distress; The emotional journey from childhood to adolescence; Emotion difficulties in eating disorders; Chapter 3 - Therapy, Clinical Challenges and the World as a Patient ; On therapy; Challenges of working with young people with eating disorders; Supportive language and feelings in therapists, young people and carers; The world as a patient; Chapter 4 - Guiding Principles for Exploring the Emotional Experience in Eating Disorders and Notes for therapists to work with YP; Section 1 - Starving Emotions; Section 2 - The Eating Disorder Filter; Section 3 - Making your playlist; Section 4 - New Playlist New Self; Section 5 - Breaking free from the Eating Disorder Filter