About one in eleven Americans will suffer sometime in their life from disordered eating. Treating eating disorders can be extensive, arduous and very expensive, ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. What are the problematic disordered eating patterns and how can they best be treated?

Dick’s guest, Carolyn Karroll is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Maryland. She is the co-author of Eating Disorders Group Therapy and writes an ongoing blog on PsychologyToday.com.