Eating Disorder Care and Referral Sources
Hospitalization: For individuals who need 24-hour medical attention due to malnourishment, electrolyte imbalances, cardiac conditions, severe dehydration.
- Del Amo Hospital Torrance, CA
Residential Treatment: For individuals who need the structure of a 24-hour program, but that are not severely medically compromised. Eating Disorder behaviors are severe and require supervision. These programs manage medical symptoms of the eating disorder. The individual cannot reduce behavior at a lower level and requires more structure. The individual may also lack the appropriate social support and needs help with normalizing eating behaviors. These programs tend to be in a home like setting that mimic the "real-world.”
- Alsana: An Eating Recovery Community, Pacific Grove, CA
- Center for Discovery (adolescents), Menlo Park, CA
- Center for Hope, Reno, NV
- Mirasol, Tucson, AZ
- Reasons, Rosemead, CA
- Rebecca's House, Lake Forest, CA
- Rosewood, Santa Monica, CA
- Renfrew Center, Los Angeles, CA
Partial Hospitalization (PHP) or Day Treatment: For individuals who do not reduce behaviors at a lower level of care or need the day time structure of a program to normalize eating. These programs are between 6-8 hours per day and start out at five days per week. They include meals in treatment, but the individual also gets to be at home with their loved ones at night.
- Eating Recovery Center, Sacramento, CA
- Reasons, Rosemead, CA
- The Lotus Collaborative, Santa Cruz, CA
- Montecatini Eating Disorders Center, Carlsbad, CA
- Center for Hope, Reno, NV
Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP): For individuals who need more structure than a typical outpatient program and who could benefit from a more intensive outpatient plan. These programs are at minimum 3 hours per day 1-5 days a week.
- ACM Woodleaf Eating Disorder Center, San Francisco, CA
- Bright Road Recovery, Claremont, CA
- Krevoy Institute for Eating Disorders, Beverly Hills, CA
- The Lotus Collaborative, Santa Cruz, CA
- Eating Recovery Center, Sacramento, CA
- Reasons, Rosemead, CA
Outpatient Programs: Treatment with outpatient providers for individual, family, group therapy, nutrition therapy, and psychiatry. It is common for a multidisciplinary treatment team to work collaboratively to help treat the eating disorder so that a higher level of care can be prevented. Also indicated in an aftercare plan after one has undergone treatment in a higher level of care. This treatment can be more long term to maintain progress and to address the underlying causes of the disorder and to address ongoing life stressors. Treatment can be one or more times a week depending on the level of severity of the eating disorder.
Recommended Readings
On Eating Disorders
- Andreas Voice by Doris Smeltzer
- Diary of an Exercise Addict by Peach Friedman
- Eating by the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling by Anita Johnson
- Eating Mindfully by Susan Alpers
- Father Hunger by Margo Maine
- Goodbye Ed, Hello Me by Jenni Schaefer
- Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
- Life without ED: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too by Jenni Schaefer and Thom Rutledge
- The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks by Thomas F. Cash
- The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to be Perfect by Margo Maine
- The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating, & Positive Body Image at Home by Marcia Herrin and Nancy Matsumoto
- Help Your Teenager Beat an ED by James Lock and Daniel Le Grange
- Talking to Eating Disorders by Jeanne Albronda Heaton and Claudia J. Strauss