The National Eating Disorder Collaboration (NEDC) has designed a set of Eating Disorder Safe Principles to provide guidance to create healthier, more supportive environments for everyone. These principles aim to equip individuals, families, communities, service providers, educators, researchers, policymakers and other organisations with a consistent approach to foster a safer and more supportive environment. By adopting these principles, we can collectively work towards reducing the risk of eating disorders and promoting overall physical and mental health and wellbeing.
This guide provides parents, carers and support people some basic resources to get started and learn more about their role as a support person.
A set of resources for carers including support organisations, carer supports, book recommendations.
Often called the "purple book," this guide from the AED's Medical Care Standards Committee serves as a resource for recognizing and managing risks in eating disorder care.
These guidelines are designed to help mental health clinicians respond in a safe and effective way to physical symptoms that present as part of an eating disorder.
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.
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.
Guidelines designed to help members of the public to provide first aid to someone who is developing or experiencing an eating disorder.
