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Program Options

Choosing the Right Program

Most programs are a combination of the options and aspects listed below. Some include all, and some include more. Treatment programs can be inpatient or outpatient. Keep in mind, treatment is about you and about what will work best for you and your recovery. The key to a successful recovery is talking with a professional that can help you make the right decisions and find the best program for you and your individual needs..

Food4Life

The Food4Life Program uses a non-dieting approach to treatment and offers an integrative plan that explores the psychological, biochemical and emotional issues around hunger and appetite. Lifestyle issues are also addressed, with the use of psychological therapeutic tools including cognitive behavioral therapy.

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Group Therapy

  • Can be used as part of inpatient or outpatient recovery programs.
  • Vary in topics and basis (experiences, spiritual, body image, stress management)
  • Give an individual the opportunity to be a part and talk with of a group of people experiencing and feeling similar emotions and have similar thoughts and struggles.

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Individual Therapy

Psychoanalytic:

The method of psychological therapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts, in order to free psychic energy for mature love and work.

The theory of personality developed by Freud that focuses on repression and unconscious forces and includes the concepts of infantile sexuality, resistance, transference, and division of the psyche into the id, ego, and superego.

Nonpsychoanalytic:

Focuses on learning about yourself and what your hopes and dreams are; often with a spiritual context.

Cognitive-Behavior:

An approach to psychology that emphasizes internal mental processes that focuses on changing behaviors that are not healthy.

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Family Therapy

Therapist works with the entire family to help them understand what eating disorders are, how they are treated, help them cope with the changes and effects, educates them on what they can do to help themselves and the family member in recovery.

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Educational Sessions

Educates the person in recovery on nutritional information, health facts, how to exercise in a healthy manner, stress relief, coping methods, etc.

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Nutritional Counseling

To help improve your health and eating habits through nutritional counseling services. They will help you to incorporate healthy behaviors into your everyday life.

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Aftercare Program

A follow-up program that helps continue the recovery process after a person has left a Treatment center or has completed an outpatient program. It continues the education process, the therapy sessions, and the support groups.

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