Eating Disorders

Eating Disorder Treatment Program

Eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia, require a team centered approach to treatment that includes a number of adolescent health specialists, physicians, psychologists, social workers and nurse practitioners to guide your child and your family back to health.

Hough Center for Eating Disorders at Beaumont

At Beaumont, we provide a comprehensive outpatient program, providing you and your family with an experienced, caring interdisciplinary team that includes:

• a fellowship trained physician who is board certified in adolescent medicine and has great depth of experience in treating eating disorders
• a pediatric social worker
• psychotherapists
• nurse practitioners trained in pediatrics and psychiatry
  
• dietitians to provide nutrition recommendations and overcome barriers to implement them
  

Our program uses a collaborative, "no blame" approach based on the Maudsley program that involves you and your child, providing you with techniques to navigate the daily recovery process. Each adolescent is encouraged and empowered to take an active role in his or her recovery.

Our programs include a weekend camp and a weekly outpatient group for adolescents and their parents. These programs are designed to support the nutritional and emotional recovery of the adolescent, often without the need for hospitalization or residential treatment.

February 26 - March 3 is National Eating Disorders Awareness month. Check out the events planned at Beaumont for that week!

Services for Every Family

Other services provided at The Hough Center include:

• Initial comprehensive medical evaluation of adolescents up to 18 years
• Ongoing medical specialty management
• Therapy, family-based and individual
• Medication evaluation and treatment
• Collaboration with a team of providers (You may continue to see your current therapist/dietitian/psychiatrist.)
• Parent Coaching : Eight-week therapy group designed to assist parents in using the family-based approach to treat their adolescent's eating disorder and support the parent in self-care through the process. The group is run by a doctorate level psychologist with eating disorder expertise. Advance registration required; fee.
• Adolescent Skill-Building Group: Eight-week therapy group designed to empower high school and middle school-aged adolescents to take a pro-active role in their recovery by developing skills to improve communication and deal with restrictive eating, binging and purging behaviors. Run by a social worker with eating disorder and group therapy expertise. Advance registration required; fee.
• Needs-based scholarships are available for Parent Coaching and/or Adolescent Skill-Building Groups. Call 248-594-3142 for more information.