For Treatment Providers
Supporting eating disorder professionals throughout Maine
EDAM supports treatment providers, students, educators, and allied professionals working to better understand, identify, and treat eating disorders across the lifespan.
Whether you are new to eating disorder care or looking to deepen your clinical lens, EDAM offers opportunities to learn, connect, collaborate, and remain engaged with a statewide professional community.
Eating disorder treatment is complex. Effective care may require attention to medical risk, nutrition rehabilitation, therapeutic support, family systems, trauma, neurodivergence, identity, weight stigma, and the broader cultural forces shaping relationships with food and body.
Learn, connect, collaborate, and strengthen access to care
Clinical education
Access conferences, trainings, professional resources, and educational opportunities focused on eating disorder prevention, recognition, treatment, and recovery.
Professional connection
Build relationships with therapists, dietitians, physicians, psychiatrists, educators, advocates, and organizations throughout Maine and the surrounding region.
Interdisciplinary collaboration
Strengthen communication across disciplines and support more coordinated approaches to medical, nutritional, psychological, and community-based care.
Greater visibility and access
Help individuals, families, referring providers, schools, and communities identify eating disorder-informed support through EDAM’s provider network and educational resources.
Books for deepening eating disorder knowledge and practice
These books reflect a range of interdisciplinary, evidence-informed, process-oriented, medical, nutritional, family-based, and weight-inclusive perspectives. Inclusion does not represent formal endorsement of every idea within each resource.
Foundational eating disorder treatment
Effective Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Beyond a Shadow of a Diet
Decoding Anorexia
ACT, DBT + process-based approaches
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Eating Disorders
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Body Image Dissatisfaction
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Binge Eating and Bulimia
Nutrition + medical management
Nutritional Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders: A Guide to Medical Care and Complications
Sick Enough
Family-based treatment + adolescent care
Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa: A Family-Based Approach
Treating Bulimia in Adolescents: A Family-Based Approach
Recovery narratives + clinical perspective
Sensing the Self: Women’s Recovery from Bulimia
Eating disorder care requires attention beyond symptoms alone
Providers may need to consider the interaction between medical stability, nutritional adequacy, psychological support, identity, access, systemic barriers, and the client’s broader environment.
Medical safety
Recognize signs of instability, understand when urgent assessment is needed, and establish clear pathways for medical monitoring.
Interdisciplinary communication
Coordinate with medical, nutrition, mental health, psychiatric, school, family, and higher-level care supports when appropriate.
Weight-inclusive treatment
Avoid using body size as a proxy for severity and consider how weight stigma may affect recognition, diagnosis, and treatment.
Identity-affirming care
Adapt care for culture, race, gender, sexuality, disability, neurodivergence, age, socioeconomic factors, and lived experience.
Nutrition rehabilitation
Understand that adequate and consistent nourishment may be necessary before intuitive cues, flexibility, and cognitive recovery can fully return.
Appropriate level of care
Reassess outpatient fit regularly and respond when medical, psychiatric, nutritional, or behavioral needs exceed the current setting.
Continue growing your eating disorder knowledge
Eating disorder research, treatment practices, and conversations about access and inclusion continue to evolve. Ongoing training is an important part of ethical and effective care.
EDAM offers conferences, trainings, and community events focused on prevention, assessment, treatment, recovery, collaboration, and advocacy.
- Annual professional conference and educational events
- Interdisciplinary speakers and clinical perspectives
- Opportunities to learn alongside other Maine professionals
- Updates on EDAM programming, resources, and advocacy
Invest in your professional community and EDAM’s statewide mission
EDAM membership helps support education, advocacy, prevention, professional connection, and access to eating disorder resources throughout Maine.
Professional and organizational members become part of a growing network committed to improving eating disorder awareness and strengthening pathways to informed care.
Help people find informed eating disorder care
EDAM’s provider directory helps individuals, families, schools, referring professionals, and community members identify eating disorder-informed therapists, dietitians, medical providers, and treatment programs.
Providers can also use the directory to identify potential collaborators, referral options, and additional members of a multidisciplinary care team.