The Butterfly Foundation is the peak national body supporting and representing the interests of individuals with Eating Disorders and/or body image concerns, and their families, friends, and carers.
For additional resources beyond what we offer, please refer to the links provided below for further information and support from reputable external sources.
A guideline providing specialist advice about involving family and carers in mental health treatment. It also reinforces lived experience participation in service design, development, delivery, evaluation and organisational governance.
This guideline for the clinical management of eating disorders provides current evidence based guidance on the assessment and treatment of people with eating disorders.
A resource designed by BC Children’s Hospital to provide parents with tools, tips, advice, and strategies on how to navigate the challenges of having a young person with body image and eating issues.
This Stepped Care Service System for Eating Disorders is part of the Victorian Mental Health Service System response to eating disorders.
Guidelines designed to help members of the public to provide first aid to someone who is developing or experiencing an eating disorder.
A resource is to assist parents and carers in understanding the potential medical complications arising from an eating disorder.
InsideOut is Australia’s national research and clinical excellence institute dedicated to improving the lives of people with eating disorders and those who care for them.
A resource for GPs offering information in preventing, identifying, managing, and referring someone living with an eating disorder.
