Alabama’s most comprehensive eating-disorder treatment center takes new name to symbolize inclusiveness.
Apr 6th, 2009 by admin
A Center for Eating Disorders, formerly known as The Alabama Center for Eating Disorders, proudly announces a new title, reflecting its foundation in community and collaboration. The center offers accessible, affordable and comprehensive treatment to those nationwide struggling with an eating disorder.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A Center for Eating Disorders (ACED), formerly known as The Alabama Center for Eating Disorders, adopted a new title to represent its comprehensive and adaptive treatment philosophy.
While the center remains in the heart of Alabama, the inclusive title speaks to individuals outside Alabama who seek the individualized and holistic program that’s unique to ACED. The center also stands apart in its fundamental belief that full recovery from an eating disorder is possible. In fact, many of its staff members, including Founder and Executive Director Renée Miller, are fully recovered from the illness.
The staff brings to ACED this personal experience, as well as more than 75 years combined experience treating eating disorders at the most renowned centers nationwide. ACED’s treatment team – including psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, dietitians, yoga instructors and others – partners with fellow professionals in the community, who offer specialized services and talents, to provide comprehensive care for every client.
This collaborative effort creates a solid resource to anticipate and meet the needs of clients and their loved ones. The ultimate goal is to create a program that complements the therapeutic support clients have or will establish with a therapist and other professionals in the community.
ACED is affordable and accessible, and as a result, draws individuals living outside Alabama in areas that lack such resources. There is a dangerous gap in this country between expensive inpatient/residential treatment that many insurance providers don’t cover, and individual therapy that is not structured enough to treat those with serious eating disorders.
This is one reason why nine out of 10 people with an eating disorder don’t receive treatment, and why more than 45,000 people die of eating disorders in this country each year. ACED aims to reduce these numbers with a healing, compassionate community.
Miller, other ACED staff members, and current and past clients of Miller are available for interviews and pictures by contacting Leigh Bell. See contact info below.
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About Renee Miller
● licensed marriage-and-family therapist and trained in art therapy
● adjunct professor of Psychology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham
● founder of first residential treatment center for eating disorders in Alabama
● worked with eating disorders for more than a decade in various settings
About A Center for Eating Disorders
● most comprehensive outpatient program statewide
● operates six full days a week, with evening groups
● much more affordable but equally as comprehensive as residential treatment, which can cost upwards of $2,000 per day
● treatment staff includes experts – many themselves recovered from an eating disorder – who are respected by fellow eating-disorder treatment providers and the local therapeutic community
Eating disorder statistics
● At least 10 million females and 1 million males have an eating disorder.
● Millions more have binge-eating disorders.
● More than 45,000 people die of eating disorders each year in America.
● Eating disorders are the most fatal psychiatric illness.
– National Eating Disorders Association
Contact:
Leigh Bell, Communications Director
A Center for Eating Disorders
Cell: (205) 304-4640
