Maudsley Parents was created in 2006 by parents who helped their children recover with family-based treatment, to offer hope and help to other families confronting eating disorders. We offer information on eating disorders and family-based treatment, family stories of recovery, supportive parent-to-parent advice, and treatment information for families who opt for family-based Maudsley treatment.
Harriet is a journalist and poet who teaches magazine journalism at Syracuse University's Newhouse School. She writes often for the New York Times and other publications.
Jane and her family helped her daughter recover from AN with family-based treatment. She is an affiliate member of the Academy for Eating Disorders and lives in Maryland with her family.
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Ann is a graphic artist and mother of two. She paints murals and watercolor house portraits, and lives with her family in Ohio.
Angela Celio Doyle, PhD, Clinical Advisor
Dr. Celio Doyle is an Instructor of Psychiatry and the Eating Disorders Program Coordinator. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of California at San Diego (Joint Doctoral Program with SDSU) after earning a bachelors and a masters degree at Stanford University. Dr. Celio Doyle spent three additional years at Stanford University helping to develop and test prevention programs for eating disorders in adolescents and young adults. Her research interests include the prevention and treatment of eating disorders in youth as well as the use of the Internet for health promotion. In her clinical work, Dr. Celio Doyle is seeing adolescent boys and girls with anorexia nervosa, as well as overweight adolescents and their families.
Kara Fitzpatrick, PhD, Clinical Advisor
Dr. Fitzpatrick is an experienced family-based treatment therapist at the Eating Disorders Clinic at Stanford University and a faculty member of the Training Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders. She specializes in neuropsychological assessment of eating disorders and evaluation of treatments for children and adolescents. Her current research interests focus on the development of Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CRT), which utilizes neuropsychological components to address cognitive and behavioral difficulties associated with eating disorders. In addition to working as a therapist on research treatment studies, she also provides supervision to therapists on different treatment modalities.
Renee Hoste, PhD, Clinical Advisor
Dr. Hoste is an Instuctor of Psychiatry at The University of Chicago's Eating Disorders Program. After earning her Bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan, Dr. Hoste received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and completed her clinical psychology internship at The University of Chicago. Her research interests include the impact of the family on treatment outcome for adolescent eating disorders, the role of expressed emotion in treatment outcome, and cross-cultural differences in expressed emotion.
Daniel le Grange, PhD, Clinical Advisor
Dr. le Grange is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Eating Disorders Program at the University of Chicago. He was a member of the team who developed the "Maudsley Approach" as a treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa. He has published more than 150 research and clinical articles, books, book chapters, and abstracts.He is the co-author of Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa: A Family-Based Approach, Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder and Treating Bulimia in Adolescents: A Family-Based Approach. Dr. le Grange has lectured extensively in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and South Africa. His past and ongoing research has been funded by the NIH (US) and the National Health & Medical Research Council (Australia).
James Lock, MD, PhD, Clinical Advisor
Dr. Lock is Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine where he also serves as Director of the Eating Disorder Program for Children and Adolescents. Dr Lock has published more than 150 articles, abstracts, and book chapters. He is the co-author of Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa: A Family-Based Approach, Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder and Treating Bulimia in Adolescents: A Family-Based Approach. He has lectured widely in the US, Canada, South America, Europe, and Australia. He has been funded by the NIH to conduct treatment research in eating disorders continuously since 1997.
Katharine Loeb, PhD, Clinical Advisor
Dr. Loeb is Associate Professor of Psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Director of Research at the Eating and Weight Disorders Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Loeb received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University and completed a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University. She is funded by the National Institutes of Health to study the early identification and treatment of anorexia nervosa and new adaptations of family based treatment for eating and weight disorders.
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