Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Psychopathology - Eating Disorders

Effective Weight Loss presents 25 detailed sessions of an empirically supported,...

Innovations in Family Therapy for Eating Disorders brings together the voices of the most-esteemed, international experts to present conceptual advances, preliminary data, and patient perspectives on family-based treatments for eating disorders. This innovative volume is based partly on a special issue of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention and includes a section on the needs of carers and couples, "Tales from the Trenches," and qualitative studies of patient, parent, and carer experiences. Cutting edge and practical, this compendium will appeal to...

Innovations in Family Therapy for Eating Disorders brings together the voices of the most-esteemed, international experts to present conceptual advances, preliminary data, and patient perspectives on family-based treatments for eating disorders. This innovative volume is based partly on a special issue of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention and includes a section on the needs of carers and couples, "Tales from the Trenches," and qualitative studies of patient, parent, and carer experiences. Cutting edge and practical, this compendium will appeal to...

For the first time in one volume, many of the world s most esteemed eating disorders prevention experts share their opinions and recommendations about future directions for the field. Employing "The Last Word" format of writing concise editorials about a focused area of research, authors from four countries contribute thirteen chapters with diverse points of view. The approaches range from large scale, macro-environmental calls for change through public policy to the more intimate promotion of positive youth identity for buffering against eating disorders. Included are retrospective looks...

This book sheds light on the changing nature of contemporary Japan by decoding a range of political, economic and social boundaries. With a focus on the period following the inauguration of Prime Minister Koizumi Junichir, the book grows out of a recognition that, with the Koizumi administration playing a more proactive role internationally and moving ahead with deregulation and the structural reform of the economy domestically, a range of boundaries have been challenged and reinscribed. Here boundaries refers to the ways in which contemporary Japan is shaped as a separate entity by the...

Through the Eyes of an Eating Disorder is an intimate collection of true stories offering an inside look at a powerful, biologically influenced illness as seen through the eyes of 13 women who live with anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating. Filled with answers to poignant questions, readers struggling with their own eating disorder will find compassion and hope, family members will discover better understanding, and professionals will appreciate the rich spectrum of journeys narrated by women willing to unveil the secrets of an illness that controlled their lives.

In this powerful guide, Kingsbury and Williams equip readers with simple reflections, vignettes, and everyday analogies that they have successfully used with their own clients to counter destructive feelings and shatter distorted ideas of food and weight. Pithy and positive statements replace compulsive, perfectionist rules with new strategies to cope with blame, guilt, vulnerability, and self-criticism.

Concrete activities help people with eating problems get off the scales, get in touch with their feelings, and make friends with their bodies.

Written by experienced...

just one"? Psychologist Rhona Epstein says we all have foods that can trigger

overeating. Food Triggers shows how to work with your body chemistry to gain

total freedom from such impulse eating.