Family Therapy

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Family therapy is an important aspect for children seeking counseling. Oftentimes, the child’s environment creates or contributes to their negative feelings, thoughts, and experiences. Including the family into the therapeutic environment with children who suffer from eating disorders, the family can be an integral part in their ability to overcome their eating disorder. Goodier, McCormack, Egan, Watson, Holies, Todd, and Treasure (2014) states that parents may also have negative thoughts and feelings like shame, guilt, anxiety associated with their child having an eating disorder (pg. 368). Both the parent and child will need to identify positive ways to support the child through their diagnosis. The study conducted by Goodier, McCormack,