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804.415.7603What We Treat
At Aster Springs, our staff works with clients and families to create individualized comprehensive care plans that meet each client’s psychological, medical, nutritional, spiritual, and relational needs. Our facility offers evidence-based treatment programs to adults and adolescents of all genders, ages 12 and older (may vary by location). The disorders we treat include:
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Why Eating Disorder Treatment Is Important
According to research, eating disorders have the second highest mortality rate of any mental illness, second only to opioid abuse. Additionally, it’s estimated that 28.8 million people, or 9% of the U.S. population, will suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder in their lifetimes.
We know that a variety of biological, psychological, and social factors contribute to the development of an eating disorder. These include genetics, societal pressures, neurobiology, trauma histories, family dynamics, and high levels of stress. And at Aster Springs, we take the whole person into consideration and address the factors that contributed to the individual’s eating disorder when creating an individualized treatment plan for each client.
Eating Disorder Treatment Goals
The key goals of our eating disorder treatment program include helping clients:
- Eliminate eating disordered behaviors
- Identify adaptive skills to cope with life stressors
- Develop a healthy relationship with exercise
- Restore weight and establish healthy eating patterns as well as a healthy relationship with food and fluids
- Practice food-related life skills including grocery shopping, menu planning, cooking, and appropriately portioning food
- Distinguish emotional and physical hunger/fullness cues
- Identify and challenge food- and body-related cognitive distortions
- Trust in their body’s ability including hunger/satiety cues
