Remuda Programs for Eating Disorders Launches New Anxiety Disorders Program for Teens and Children
Phoenix, Ariz. (PRWEB) March 7, 2008 -- Remuda Programs for Eating Disorders, the nation's leading and largest inpatient treatment center for women and girls suffering from eating disorders, has launched a new treatment program for anxiety disorders. The inpatient program will treat adolescents and children suffering from: obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); panic disorder; specific phobia; social anxiety disorder; separation anxiety disorder; generalized anxiety disorder; anxiety disorder NOS (not otherwise specified); and OCD spectrum disorders, such as body dysmorphic disorder or trichotillomania.
"Four to five million children and adolescents struggle with anxiety disorders," said Amy Spahr, Executive Clinical Director, at Remuda Programs for Eating Disorders. "We have been extremely successful in helping thousands of girls and women overcome eating disorders for almost 18 years. During this time, thousands of our young patients have entered treatment with an anxiety disorder and we've had great success in treating those issues as well."
The minimum stay is 60 days for Remuda's Anxiety Disorders Program. This time in treatment is needed to stop negative behaviors, address critical issues and help patients and their families. All therapies occur within a cognitive behavioral framework, are based on Biblical Christianity and include:
? Exposure with response prevention therapy
? Didactic presentations
? Skills groups
? Equine and canine therapy
? Art therapy
? Challenge course and recreation groups
? Movement and relaxation therapy
? Daily chapels, providing non-denominational Biblical teachings
? Spiritual growth groups
Parents are encouraged to meet their daughter's treatment team at admission. This helps Remuda's professionals gain understanding of family issues and possible familial background of the disorder. During the patient's stay, parents participate in weekly therapeutic telephone sessions with their daughter and her therapist. Half-way through treatment, the entire family meets at Remuda for two to three days of education, process groups and counseling.
Remuda's programs and ranch settings are different from the traditional, institutional format offered at hospitals and clinics. Remuda's programs offer a balanced, multi-disciplinary team approach that is designed to treat the whole person and meet her unique medical, nutritional, psychological, and spiritual needs.
"We look forward to offering our anxiety disorders program to teens and girls who are in need of inpatient treatment," adds Spahr. "Remuda has long practiced treating the individual biologically, psychologically, socially and spiritually. We bring to this program years of success and specific treatment tailored to each individual."
About Remuda Programs for Eating Disorders
Remuda Programs for Eating Disorders offers Christian inpatient and residential treatment for women and girls of all faiths suffering from an eating disorder. Each patient is treated by a multi-disciplinary team including a Psychiatric and a Primary Care Provider, Registered Dietitian, Masters Level therapist, Psychologist and Registered Nurse. The professional staff equips each patient with the right tools to live a healthy, productive life. For more information, call 1-800-445-1900 or visit www.remudaranch.com
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Basic Forms of Eating Disorders
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Compulsive Eating Disorders - How To Treat Them
Having an eating disorder not only affects your social life and psychological state, but can also have serious after effects on the person's health. Because of this, it is vital that people suffering from any kind of eating disorders to receive immediate and specialized treatment. There are many types of compulsive eating disorder treatments and many thousand of sufferers have recovered after deciding to go to a specialist. There is recovery process that one must go through in order to become healthy again.
Eating Disorders: A MAN'S Problem?
Eating disorders can be one of the most harmful and troubling things that occur in a person's lifetime. The combination of the stress that they feel and oftentimes depression that leads to them, coupled with the harmful effects that eating disorders create in a person's physical life, make him a true nightmare indeed. For most of the time that eating disorders have been a condition that people have been aware of, it has been associated almost primarily with women.
Life Altering Addiction And Eating Disorder Counseling
Nowadays one can find many programs offering residential treatment for eating disorder. These are often similar to the residential treatment for addiction. Addiction and eating disorders have many similarities between them. Since this is unhealthy, they require addiction and eating disorder counseling. The human brain basically has individual reward centers. These are activated when a person is cared for and feels well. Also, if the person takes care of the body or receives praise, the centers are rewarded. However, these reward centers can also be stimulated by artificial methods. Drugs, alcohol, and excessive food all stimulate the centers. Apart from this, they block out unpleasant feelings.
Treatment for Eating Disorders
There are many reasons why people with an eating disorder are reluctant to actually get treatment for eating disorders. For one thing, actually getting help means admitting that they have a problem. After all, if they are seeking help, that must mean there's something wrong with them. A lot of them are psychologically fragile or damaged, and this is difficult for many people with eating disorders. In some cases, the victim is thoroughly convinced that there really is no problem, and it's even harder to convince the victim to get help.
Celebrity Food Dysfunction Connected to Rise in Eating Disorders
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Leading Drug Rehab Referral Database Now Offers Support for Patients with Eating Disorders
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