Self-Harm Behavior and Eating Disorders: Dynamics, Assessment, and Treatment

ISBN-13: 9780415946988 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 290 str.

John L. Levitt; Randy A. Sansone; Leigh Cohn

Opis

This book is designed to provide professionals with the information and tools they need to treat patients who have eating disorders and engage in self-harm beahviours. Grouped into four major sections these chapters examine the co-occurance of self harm behaviour from a variety of perspectives.

Recenzje

"Levitt et al., by examining the overlap between bulimia, anorexia nervosa and other forms of self-injurious behaviour, have helped re-integrate the treatment of eating disorders into the rest of psychiatry." - Martin Guha, Librarian, Kings College Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK

Spis treści

Introduction. Levitt, Sansone, Cohn, Epidemiology. Sansone, Levitt, The Prevalence of Self-harm Behaviors Among Those with Eating Disorders. Nasser, Cross-cultural Issues and Self-harm Behavior. Psychodynamics. Favaro, Ferrara, Santonastaso, Impulsive and Compulsive Self-injurious Behavior and Eating Disorders. Anderson, Bulik, Bulik, Self-harm and Suicide Attempts in Bulimia Nervosa. Sansone, Sansone, Levitt, Borderline Personality Disorder: Self-harm and Eating Disorders. Hartman McGilley, Feminist Perspectives on Self-harm Behavior and Eating Disorders. Assessment. Sansone, Sansone, Assessment Tools: Eating Disorder Symptoms and Self-harm Behavior. Juzwin, The Self Injury Self-report Inventory. Treatment. Sansone, Levitt,  Sansone, An Overview of Psychotherapy Strategies for the Management of Self Harm. Behavior. Claes, Vandereycken, Vertommen, Therapy Related Assessment of Self-harming Behaviors in Eating Disorder. Clients: A Case Illustration. McCabe, Marcus, Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Eating Disorder Patients with Self-harm Behavior. Myers, Wonderlich, Norton, Crosby, An Integrative Cognitive Therapy Approach to the Treatment of Multi-impulsive. Bulimia Nervosa. Ostroff, Eclectic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Self-injury: A Case Illustration. Costin, Interventions and Strategies for Families and Friends of the Self Harming Patient With an Eating Disorder. Levitt, A Self-regulatory Approach to the Treatment of Eating Disorders and Self-injury. Levitt, Sansone, Group Therapy for the Treatment of Self-destructive Behavior. Sansone, Levitt, Sansone, Psychotropic Medications, Self Harm Behavior, and Eating Disorders.

O autorze

John L. Levitt, Ph.D. is Clinical Director of Eating Disorders and Violence and Abuse Programs at Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates, IL.
Randy A. Sansone, M.D. is a Professor at the Wright State University School of Medicine and Director of Psychiatry at Kettering Medical Center in Kettering, OH.
Leigh Cohn, M.A.T. is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, and Publisher of Gürze Books, a company that has specialized in eating disorders publications and education since 1980.