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Help Improve Patient Care By Helping to Change the Diagnostic Criteria for Eating Disorders!
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About this Petition Pledge

One of our most important missions at the Joy Project is to assist those who suffer from eating disorders in getting their voices heard. As some of you may know, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is currently in the process of reconsidering the diagnostic criteria for eating disorders, which will be published in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders- V in 2012. We believe that a crucial part of this process is consideration of the negative impact that the current criteria may have from the perspective of the patients themselves.

If you would like to help bring these issues to the attention of the Eating Disorders Working Group of the APA, you can help us out in two ways. First, we have composed a petition to the APA, outlining the general problems the current diagnostic criteria can pose for patients. You can
print out the letter and sign one yourself, to be sent directly to the APA. You can also print out a personal experience form letter, in which you have the chance to share any personal experiences you may have had regarding the ways in which a focus on weight or "severity" of your eating disorder may have affected your own personal journey.

Please feel free to complete one or both of the letters. They can then be sent directly to the Joy Project, where we will compile them to be delivered to the revision work group at the APA!

The following links will get you started:
Petition Letter: www.joyproject.org/Documents/TotheAPA.doc
Personal Experience Letter: http://www.joyproject.org/Documents/PersonalExperienceForm.doc

Please send your info as soon as possible!
Thank you to everyone who contributes!


kristina@joyproject.org!!



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Help Improve Patient Care By Helping to Change the Diagnostic Criteria for Eating Disorders!

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One of our most important missions at the Joy Project is to assist those who suffer from eating disorders in getting their voices heard. As some of you may know, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is currently in the process of reconsidering the diagnostic criteria for eating disorders, which will be published in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders- V in 2012. We believe that a crucial part of this process is consideration of the negative impact that the current criteria may have from the perspective of the patients themselves. <br /><br />If you would like to help bring these issues to the attention of the Eating Disorders Working Group of the APA, you can help us out in two ways. First, we have composed a petition to the APA, outlining the general problems the current diagnostic criteria can pose for patients. You can <br />print out the letter and sign one yourself, to be sent directly to the APA. You can also print out a personal experience form letter, in which you have the chance to share any personal experiences you may have had regarding the ways in which a focus on weight or "severity" of your eating disorder may have affected your own personal journey. <br /><br />Please feel free to complete one or both of the letters. They can then be sent directly to the Joy Project, where we will compile them to be delivered to the revision work group at the APA! <br /><br />The following links will get you started: <br />Petition Letter: www.joyproject.org/Documents/TotheAPA.doc <br />Personal Experience Letter: <a href="http://www.joyproject.org/Documents/PersonalExperienceForm.doc">http://www.joyproject.org/Documents/PersonalExperienceForm.doc</a> <br /><br />Please send your info as soon as possible! <br />Thank you to everyone who contributes! <br /><br /><br />kristina@joyproject.org!!</p>
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