Help For Young People With Eating Disorders, UK

Main Category: Eating Disorders
Also Included In: Psychology / Psychiatry;  Mental Health
Article Date: 27 Oct 2008 - 4:00 PDT

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If you are looking to initiate the recovery process and feel that you would like support with this, beat the leading UK charity for people with eating disorders is launching an exciting new online Recovery Club service. The monthly club will run for six months enabling young people to benefit from the support of their peers and to feel comfortable discussing their concerns and fears about treatment and the recovery process.

The Recovery Club service will offer online peer support to young people with eating disorders through a monthly facilitated club. Each club will have a theme to enable service users to discuss different issues and aspects of eating disorders and the recovery process with the support of a beat team member and a guest facilitator. The club will begin this November and an application to access this service will be going live on Tuesday 28th October 2008 on the For Young People section of the beat website http://www.b-eat.co.uk/YoungPeople/Home

Whilst we are only able to offer this service to a limited number of people, we do hope that if this pilot is successful it will be more widely available in the future. We are also hoping to develop our existing recovery information on our website to aid people unable to access the recovery club service. We have posted a questionnaire on the recovery section of the beat website to ascertain what resources service users feel would benefit them with the recovery process. To take part in the questionnaire please follow the link: http://www.b-eat.co.uk/YoungPeople/Recovery/HaveyourSay

If you would like any further information about the Recovery Club, please email j.armitage@b-eat.co.uk

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