A Guide for Facilitating Peer Support Groups on Disordered Eating
This manual has been developed as a resource guide for individuals participating in the Eating Disorders Action Group's Peer Support Group Facilitation Training. This guide provides a foundation of information, resources and tools for anyone interested in facilitating a Peer Support Group for individuals experiencing disorered eating and/or body-image related issues through the Eating Disorders Action Group.
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A Guide for Training Facilitators of Disordered Eating Peer Support Groups
This Guide has been developed for training Eating Disorders Action Group Peer Support Group Facilitators to help increase their self-awareness, and build on and enhance their knowledge, skills and confidence to lead effective peer support groups. This resource provides trainers with the curriculum for conducting peer support group facilitator training.
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Our Resource Library - free fact sheets (.pdf)
The Eating Disorders Action Group's Resource Centre has a lending library, information on resources available, and information on topics listed below. For more information, please contact us.
1. What is an eating disorder?
- Intuitive eating
- When does concern with food & weight turn into an eating disorder?
- Common characteristics of most eating disorders
- What is normal eating?
- Fact sheets on: Anorexia | Bulimia | Compulsive Eating
2. Medical, statistical information
- Iron and your body
- What really happens when we diet
- Top 10 reasons to give up dieting
- Eating disorders fact sheet
3. Body image, self image, stress, self-esteem exercises
- Coping with stress
- Body acceptance
- Recovering from an eating disorder
- What to do if you think you may have an eating disorder
- How's your body image?
- The diet trap cycle
- Think positively !
- Making choices journaling exercise
- Self-esteem
4. Guides for those helping someone with an eating disorder
- Ask yourself this
- Body image perceptions
- How you can play a role
- Information for concerned parents
- When you are approached
- Questioning your attitudes - myths about eating disorders
- How you can help someone who is experiencing an eating disorder
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